--- description: Pig at Burger King in Boswell Pennsylvania was found eating hash browns while a bacon egg and cheese sandwiches special was going on title: Pot Bellied Pig Found at Burger King in Pennsylvania image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Cranky Runaway Pig Terrorizes Burger King  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Apr 3, 2015 2:38 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Apr 3, 2015 2:38 PM CUT On Thursday morning, a pot-bellied pig that escaped from its pen overnight wandered into the parking lot of a Burger King in Boswell along U.S. Route 30, about an hour southeast of Pittsburgh, the [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports](http://triblive.com/news/somerset/8097542-74/pig-nichols-bacon#axzz3WFsq7DGS "undefined"). Coincidentally, there was a two-for-$4 special on bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches going on, but it does not sound like the animal ate any of its own kind. Instead, it was fed hash browns by customers and tolerated some picture-taking before police arrived after the runaway pig also reportedly nipped a bystander’s foot, [according to CBS Pittsburgh](http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/04/02/menacing-pig-caught-after-threatening-burger-king-patrons/ "undefined"). 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