# Eaten by hogs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449 "2012-10-02T02:45:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/41 "2012-10-02T23:30:21Z")
Yes children, the pigs WILL eat you. Unless you eat them first. Eat pork, save the world. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/42 "2012-10-03T00:26:13Z")
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!” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/43 "2012-10-03T00:47:11Z")
I, for one, welcome our new porcine overlords. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/44 "2012-10-03T01:14:08Z")
> [@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.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/45 "2012-10-03T12:12:46Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/46 "2012-10-03T14:30:38Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/47 "2012-10-03T15:53:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bourbon-soda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@bourbon-soda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bourbon-soda)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/48 "2012-10-04T10:05:07Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/49 "2012-10-04T11:20:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/50 "2012-10-04T18:00:48Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/51 "2012-10-04T18:09:33Z")
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned [Robert Pickton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton), the Canadian serial killer who fed his victims to his hogs and possibly to his neighbors. StG ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449/52 "2012-10-04T18:27:27Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Now I understand why the farmhands in Wizard of Oz freaked out so much when Dorothy fell into the hog pen. A common [theme](http://www.google.com/imgres?q=old+yeller+wild+pigs&um=1&hl=en&biw=1147&bih=915&tbm=isch&tbnid=bjVrJjCMIS8VsM:&imgrefurl=http://www.moviefancollectibles.com/product/old-yeller-original-movie-still-photo-wild-boar-attack-tommy-kirk&docid=nCaP8PkQh-tsLM&imgurl=http://cdn.highwire.com/1480382.jpg&w=750&h=602&ei=0dNtUNWqB4Wi8gSGioCoDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=734&vpy=138&dur=2828&hovh=201&hovw=251&tx=155&ty=104&sig=106606476633292062808&page=1&tbnh=123&tbnw=157&start=0&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0,i:82). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eaten-by-hogs/636449.md?page=2)