Police in Ohio tussled with an unlikely runaway this week after catching sight of a giant inflatable Halloween decoration rolling down the road.

Body camera footage from the Parma Heights Police Department in northeast Ohio shows an officer struggling to stop a blow-up pumpkin as his colleague audibly giggles.

As the officer wrestles with the inflatable, he can be heard saying that he tried to catch up with the decoration earlier in the day, but that it kept escaping his grasp.

“When I went to grab it over here, it just took off,” he says. “I was pretty much in pursuit.”

Later in the video, the runaway gourd blows on top of the officer and up onto the hood of the car, where his colleague with the body camera is sitting.

After further struggles to deflate the decoration, multiple off

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