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pinktricam
Jun 10, 2007, 12:59 PM
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Farmers: 'Monster Pig' Not a Wild Hog, But Was Their Pet Pig 'Fred'
From the article:
"The 1,051-pound hog, shot and killed by 11-year-old Jamison Stone and the subject of a world-wide Web firestorm over the photo's authenticity, really is...
Fred.
That's "Fred" the pig, and according to Rhonda and Phil Blissitt their humongous hog escaped on April 29, four days before it was killed, according to the Star newspaper."
(Frankly, I'm just glad to read it wasn't a feral pig!)
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bear829
Jun 10, 2007, 1:48 PM
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Anyone else smell bacon?
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lovesclimbing
Jun 10, 2007, 5:15 PM
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backwoods lined with bacon
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thomasribiere
Jun 10, 2007, 6:17 PM
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Wild or not, it's still a huge beast!
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pinktricam
Jun 10, 2007, 6:51 PM
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I dunno...it sorta takes a bit of the air out of the drama. Instead of a wild pig capable of turning on a human and trampling them to death during the hunt, you have Fred the domestic pig probably trotting up to the hunter and innocently looking for a handout then BLAM!
Kinda takes the sport out of it, ya know?
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lovesclimbing
Jun 10, 2007, 7:48 PM
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intresting that the weapon that he used was not a rifle, is there anything worse to hunt with than a long barrle hand gun with a scope on it. And to top it off manned by a 12 y/o
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notapplicable
Jun 10, 2007, 10:05 PM
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Man that is one hell of a hog. You know I've helped butcher pig before, that beast would take four men all day to breakdown and prep for cooking or drying.
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thegreytradster
Jun 10, 2007, 10:13 PM
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A closer corillary to "Fred the domestic pig" Would be running across a 1050 lb pit bull hungry, pissed and running around loose in the woods.
More than one farmer has disapeared courtesy of the apetite of a "domestic" pig.
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dr_feelgood
Jun 10, 2007, 10:38 PM
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thegreytradster wrote: A closer corillary to "Fred the domestic pig" Would be running across a 1050 lb pit bull hungry, pissed and running around loose in the woods. More than one farmer has disapeared courtesy of the apetite of a "domestic" pig.
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lovesclimbing
Jun 10, 2007, 10:40 PM
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could you imagine meeting that thing and finding out it was a wild boar or something.
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