Pepe Le Phew: Officers free skunk with head caught in mason jar

NEW JERSEY -- Some police responses are hectic, involved, complex. Others are a bit more ... black and white.

Yeah, we know. That joke really stinks.

Officers Alfred Keiser and Michael Ruggier responded to a North Beverwyck Road home with a Parsippany animal control officer Sunday to find a skunk with its head in a mason-style jar, Parsippany police said in a news release.

Hero officers saved this poor little guy

The officers tried to pull the jar off of the skunk's head, but that didn't work, police said. So while the animal control held onto the skunk's body, Keisler broke the jar with his expandable baton, police said.

The skunk quickly trotted away, unharmed, police said.

The offers were left smelling no worse for the wear, Officer Earl Kinsey said.

(nj.com - August 29, 2013)