A pilfered pumpkin caper in New Hampshire was just a misunderstanding which put some pounds on a herd of pigs.

Foster's Daily Democrat reported that hundreds of pumpkins were reported stolen following a festival in Somersworth, in south-east New Hampshire, on the Maine border.

The pumpkins had been set aside behind a school to be sold at a craft fair. But a farmer saw the bins of pumpkins and asked a school employee if he could take them for his pigs.

Police Captain Russ Timmons said the employee did not know the pumpkins were being saved and gave the farmer the go-ahead. He said no charges will be filed even though "the only ones that are happy in this whole thing are the hogs".

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