Eaten by hogs

[Johnny L.A.]

A 70-year-old Coos County, OR, farmer has been eaten by his hogs.

Fair enough, I reckon. We eat enough of them.

[RickJay]

We're still winning.

[Sam I Am]

What happens to hogs who eat people? Are they still considered fit for human consumption?

[Duckster]

Is eating the pork, ham and bacon from those pigs upon slaughter now a form of human cannibalism?

[Spiderman]

Would the hogs have eaten him if he was either Jewish or Muslim?

[SeldomSeen]

Happened to one of my Dad's cousins also. Many years ago, but the story still gets occasional mention at family gatherings. Dad, a lifelong farmer swore a solemn oath that he'd never raise another pig, and he never did. He stuck to dairy cows which will knock you down, trample you, roll you in filth and kick like a pile driver, but have never been known to actually eat anyone.

[Dewey Finn]

So the plot point in Deadwood involving Mr Wu's pigs wasn't fanciful. Good to know.

[Disheavel]

With the upcoming bacon shortage, I'm glad that someone stepped up to put their mind into the solution.

[Der Trihs]

Originally Posted by SeldomSeen

He stuck to dairy cows which will knock you down, trample you, roll you in filth and kick like a pile driver, but have never been known to actually eat anyone.

I know better than that! I've read The Far Side.

[Johnny L.A.]

Originally Posted by Der Trihs

I know better than that! I've read The Far Side.

Farmer Brown froze in his tracks...

While Farmer Brown was away...

Sick, sick, sick!

[Der Trihs]

Originally Posted by Johnny L.A.

Farmer Brown froze in his tracks...

While Farmer Brown was away...

Sick, sick, sick!

And another!

[panache45]

There's something about that story that's not kosher.

[Sodalite]

Originally Posted by Duckster

Is eating the pork, ham and bacon from those pigs upon slaughter now a form of human cannibalism?

We've been over this before but it's been a while. There was no conclusive answer. I guess you leave it up rules set down by your deity of choice or whatever.

[drewtwo99]

My grandma told me about a similar story to an old family friend of ours. Guy got eaten by his pigs.

Happened in Oregon too! Maybe something about the pigs in Oregon having a hunger for human flesh?

[Johnny L.A.]

I recall a saying from somewhere: 'Never fall asleep in a hog pen.'

This is why.

[phouka]

Pigs will eat just about anything, including what doesn't run away fast enough.

One of the stories in my family is about my grandfather and great-uncle getting in a fist fight near the pig pen. Great-uncle got knocked down, and his wallet fell out close enough to the fence that one of the pigs gobbled it up.

Unfortunately, the wallet contained the money he'd been saving all year to go on a trip, and there wasn't anyway it would make it through the pig's digestive tract intact.

Grandpa felt so bad, he put in all his savings to make up for it.

[BwanaBob]

This just happened in the latest episode of Copper on BBC America (thought the guy was dead already and his body was being disposed of). It would be creepy and ironic if the farmer had watched the episode Sunday night.

[Count Blucher]

I can't read this thread without hearing Eric Idle saying, "Chapter 17: I am Eaten by Hogs."

[blondebear]

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

What happens to hogs who eat people? Are they still considered fit for human consumption?

They are usually fed to grizzly bears, which are then killed for second-degree maneating.

[lieu]

Perhaps we'll start seeing the faces of missing persons on packages of bacon.

[Meatros]

Originally Posted by RickJay

We're still winning.

I'm tempted to curse at you.

I was on the phone when I read this and had to stifle a laugh.


Edited to add: Oh Lawd, I can't read this thread right now!

Bookmarked for later.

[redtail23]

Yeah, hogs'll do that.

I remember going down the road from my grandmother's place as a wee tot, to visit her neighbor who raised hogs. My Dad threatened major mayhem if we kids got near the pens without him; he knew we didn't understand how dangerous they are, but he (farmboy that he was) sure as hell did.

[kayaker]

Originally Posted by SeldomSeen

Happened to one of my Dad's cousins also.

By the same hogs? If so, I say destroy the beasts at once!!

[Johnny L.A.]

So the hog says, 'You know, in the South Seas they call us "short humans".'

[Mangetout]

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Would the hogs have eaten him if he was either Jewish or Muslim?

Yes, all except for the foreskin.

[Kimballkid]

Good to see that "Went to shit and the hogs ate him." isn't just an empty expression.

[aceplace57]

Sounds like the farmer made a mistake by keeping them too long. They should have been sold at auction or butchered long before they got that size. Even smaller hogs are dangerous if someone has a heart attack or stroke and passes out in the pen.

We have serious problems in my region with wild hogs. They have tusks and are extremely dangerous.

Some of the hogs weighed an abnormally large 700 pounds on the farm close to the rural town of Riverton. Most hogs are raised to a market weight of between 250-300lbs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rts-found.html

[johnpost]

Originally Posted by phouka

Pigs will eat just about anything, including what doesn't run away fast enough.

One of the stories in my family is about my grandfather and great-uncle getting in a fist fight near the pig pen. Great-uncle got knocked down, and his wallet fell out close enough to the fence that one of the pigs gobbled it up.

Unfortunately, the wallet contained the money he'd been saving all year to go on a trip, and there wasn't anyway it would make it through the pig's digestive tract intact.

Grandpa felt so bad, he put in all his savings to make up for it.

don't seem right to me.

each getting half a hog would have been cheaper and they would have got the wallet back.

[Shoeless]

Originally Posted by drewtwo99

My grandma told me about a similar story to an old family friend of ours. Guy got eaten by his pigs.

Happened in Oregon too! Maybe something about the pigs in Oregon having a hunger for human flesh?

This could be an episode of "Grimm"!

[hogarth]

Originally Posted by phouka

Pigs will eat just about anything, including what doesn't run away fast enough.

My grand-dad told me a story about a barn fire they had when he was young. A bunch of horses died. Rather than cart off the carcasses, they drove the pigs over to the wreckage and the porkers got to have a horsemeat smorgasbord. Afterwards, they only had to take away the bones and the pigs were in hog heaven, so to speak.

[MikeF]

From Snatch:

Brick Top: You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.

Sol: Would someone mind telling me, who are you?

Brick Top: And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

Vinny: Well, thank you for that. That's a great weight off me mind. Now, if you wouldn't mind telling me who the fuck you are, apart from someone who feeds people to pigs of course?

[jasg]

Originally Posted by Disheavel

With the upcoming bacon shortage, I'm glad that someone stepped up to put their mind into the solution.

.. body and soul too. Reminds me of the breakfast saying: The hen was involved but the hog was committed.

[The Flying Dutchman]

Originally Posted by phouka

Pigs will eat just about anything, including what doesn't run away fast enough.

One of the stories in my family is about my grandfather and great-uncle getting in a fist fight near the pig pen. Great-uncle got knocked down, and his wallet fell out close enough to the fence that one of the pigs gobbled it up.

Unfortunately, the wallet contained the money he'd been saving all year to go on a trip, and there wasn't anyway it would make it through the pig's digestive tract intact.

Grandpa felt so bad, he put in all his savings to make up for it.

So why didn't they just kill the pig right away and recover the wallet in 5 minutes and then butcher the pig ?

[Dr. Woo]

Oh yeah. When we were on my family's ranch as kids we were always cautioned about the pigs, which were kind of scary aggressive to us anyway.

We were allowed free rein around the ranch, with the enormous bull, the welding shop, the farm machinery (I first drove a tractor at the age of 8), the untrustworthy and irritable horses, the rickety barn with its many scurrying inhabitants and dangerous substances stored there, the irrigation canals with swift running water - all kinds of hazards to little kids. But those pigs - they were something to be wary of.

[The Flying Dutchman]

One of the frightening moments I remember is one day as a young kid playing in the hay loft with my younger brother in my uncle's barn when all of a sudden he fell through the chute and landed into a pen with these enormous grunting and squeeling hogs. He got the hell out of there fast.

[Rachellelogram]

Now I understand why the farmhands in Wizard of Oz freaked out so much when Dorothy fell into the hog pen. And why Dorothy was so stupid to use the fence post as a balance beam in the first place.

[The Great Sun Jester]

Originally Posted by The Flying Dutchman

So why didn't they just kill the pig right away and recover the wallet in 5 minutes and then butcher the pig ?

I was thinking kind of this, and kind of something more surreal involving shattering the beast with a hammer.

[jsc1953]

Originally Posted by Rachellelogram

Now I understand why the farmhands in Wizard of Oz freaked out so much when Dorothy fell into the hog pen. And why Dorothy was so stupid to use the fence post as a balance beam in the first place.

Getting dangerously off-topic, but that scene has one of the most peculiar lines of dialog I've ever heard. Something to the effect of:

"...you'll worry those hogs into anemia".

Somehow, the presence of a teenage girl near their pen will (a) distress the pigs, which will then (b) cause their iron levels to drop dangerously low.

[The Flying Dutchman]

Like a piggy bank ?

[Mangetout]

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

What happens to hogs who eat people? Are they still considered fit for human consumption?

I'd say they're experts at human consumption.

[Chimera]

Yes children, the pigs WILL eat you. Unless you eat them first.

Eat pork, save the world.

[Colibri]

A friend of mine from a rural area used to say, "We ain't had so much excitement around here since the hogs ate baby sister!"

[buddha_david]

I, for one, welcome our new porcine overlords.

[freckafree]

Originally Posted by Colibri

A friend of mine from a rural area used to say, "We ain't had so much excitement around here since the hogs ate baby sister!"

I say a variant of that all the time! "I haven't had so much fun since the pigs ate my little sister."

[lieu]

Originally Posted by Colibri

A friend of mine from a rural area used to say, "We ain't had so much excitement around here since the hogs ate baby sister!"

Baby sister, the 'nother white meat.

[phouka]

Originally Posted by The Flying Dutchman

So why didn't they just kill the pig right away and recover the wallet in 5 minutes and then butcher the pig ?

My guess, as I was not there, is that neither of them noticed the wallet falling out and later deducted what had happened OR the pig that et it got lost in his crowd of brethren pigs.

Killing one pig to get back a wallet might have been okay with their father. Killing all the pigs? Probably not. Especially since they were fighting. Great-granddad wouldn't have had any sympathy for that.

[ducati]

As a 100lb 12 yo, I was spending the summer on a family farm. Chores are fun if it's just for the summer, so when my cousin the farmer asked if I wanted to feed the pigs, I said "you bet".

I climbed up into a small silo where the opening was about 5 feet off the ground and began shoveling out corn. As the hogs gathered, I realized I'd painted myself into a corner as it were, and began shouting for my cousin to help. He was grown man, but these hogs came up to his waist and higher. He showed no fear as he casually punched and kicked his way through them, yelling and sending them on their way. I followed him back down the path he had opened and jumped over the fence quickly. No way in hell could I have accomplished that by my little self.

Safety Tip: Those squeals the piglets make when you pick them up to play with them roughly translate into "Mama! Quick! Come bite this boy!". I learned with great surprise how quickly a very large animal can run. Hint: It's quicker than you or me. Had my second cousin and I not been about 2 feet from the fence when Mama came for us, at least one of us would not be here.

I'm going to Waffle House and ordering extra bacon today.

[bourbon-soda]

There was an episode on one of those cold case or forensic crime shows where two brothers I think in WI on MI beat one or two hunters to death at a rural bar following a dispute over who had killed a deer, I think put the body or bodies through a mulcher or shredder, and fed it to pigs. The perps had their little community so intimidated that no one would talk for years. This is probably not the only time that pigs have been used deliberately in this way. It seemed to work pretty well.

Many food and water molecules have probably had prior lives in other humans, making cannibalism ubiquitous if consuming them after recycling through acceptable species is the definition. A parasitologist once told me an inside joke had it that the world is actually a large rock covered with a thin layer of feces. What does that make everybody?

[Tapiotar]

Many animals we eat have eaten humans. Scene from Dorothy Sayers' Have His Carcase includes testimony that the corpse had been nibbled on by crabs and lobsters, and the local restaurateurs making notes to take crab and lobster off the menu for the next few weeks.

[Irishman]

Originally Posted by Rachellelogram

Now I understand why the farmhands in Wizard of Oz freaked out so much when Dorothy fell into the hog pen. And why Dorothy was so stupid to use the fence post as a balance beam in the first place.

Damn, beat me to the same observation.