By Brian Linder (pennlive.com/TNS)
Kevin Bacon has been captured in Gettysburg.
After spending the past couple weeks roaming free around town, making his way into national headlines, and ever getting a nod from the Hollywood actor himself, the 200-pound Juliana pig is back in his pen.
Chelsea Rumbaugh shared a photo of the fella, soundly asleep, and wrote “He’s home,” on the “Bring Kevin Bacon Home” Facebook page. Rumbaugh saw the pig inside his pen late Tuesday morning and raced over, closing the door before he could flee again.
Thus ends a tale that captivated the nation. Of course, knowing Kevin Bacon, another run is probably in him at some point.
Chelsea Rumbaugh told PennLive when the saga began that when she spotted the pig for sale online for a cool $50 it seemed liked a bargain for a 100-pound pig. So, after some quick thinking, she decided to go check him out. If she could fit him in the back of her Kia, onto some plastic, blankets and a dog hammock that she had laid down, she would bring him home.
And that is where things started to go a little sideways because Kevin Bacon didn’t weigh 100 pounds. After some quick measuring, Chelsea said, she determined that Kevin Bacon was actually right at 200 pounds.
She then spent about five minutes explaining how you fit a 200-pound porker in the backseat of a Kia. It’s a story all by itself.
They had to kind of hoist the big fella up and let him walk on in there.
After pulling off the feat of getting him loaded, Rumbaugh said they made it back home in Gettysburg, and Kevin seemed to quickly acclimate to his surroundings.
But, she said, as soon as they turned their back, Kevin made a break for it, somehow escaping their barn and making his way to a nearby campground.
“He really just wanted to get out and explore,” she said. “He is really testing his limits.”
His escape and time on the run — combined with one of the greatest names you will ever see for a pig — has had folks talking. Kevin Bacon was a popular topic on social media, and news sites all over the country have run a story about him.
“By far,” Rumbaugh said with a laugh last week after she was asked if Kevin was the biggest troublemaker in their pig pen. “None of the others have ever caused a ruckus like this. We did not know what we were getting into with him.”
Rumbaugh said then that she was nervous because she didn’t want Kevin to get hurt. She said she worried a hunter or someone in the community might mistake him for a wild hog.
“So, we just want his picture out in the community,” she said at the time. “Hopefully it helps lower the chance of him getting accidentally [hurt or killed].”
She told PennLive that the family built a special pen for him to occupy whenever they were able to catch him.
“When I get Kevin … he needs a GPS tracker,” she said last week. “If somebody can make me a collar that will fit around him and stay on him so I can put a GPS tracker on it … it would be great.
“And then I think we might just have an open barn so people can come by here and holler at Kevin about what he has done.”
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