Breakdown patroller Steve Milner thought his controllers were telling porkies when they rang to direct him to a pig the size of car stranded on a country road.
But the AA man could not stop laughing when he arrived to find the casualty was a 6ft long, 90lb blue piggy bank which had had a mishap as it was being pulled along by two men on a tandem bike.
Steve Hunt, 46, and Gordon McKirdy, 33, were heading from Glasgow to London in a challenge to raise cash for Cancer Research UK when a joint holding the pig on the trailer snapped between Longhorsley and Morpeth, in Northumberland.
