This little piggy sparked a chase in SF’s Mission District

In the wilds of San Francisco’s Mission district, a piglet running through traffic Tuesday prompted a chase by a posse of Good Samaritans that was led by a Franciscan friar.

The piglet, weighing no more than 10 pounds, was spotted on the loose at the bustling intersection of 19th and Dolores streets at about 8:30 a.m.

“We had a three-block up-and-down and up-and-down chase,” Brother Damian of the Society of St. Francis on Dolores Street said of the bizarre roundup.

The 46-year-old Franciscan friar said he was conducting a morning prayer service when a St. Francis deacon ran in and alerted him of the little porker in the street.

Among those trying to catch the piglet was a man in a business suit, who briefly had the animal cornered under a car before it squirmed away.

A police officer blocked off traffic in the area, and eventually the wayward piglet was captured by a construction worker, the friar said.