Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Pig Soooooeeeeyyyy!

Nope, it's not a scene from "Lost." That's a real hog. No, really.

From the AP news wire...

"MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- An Alabama boy has used his revolver on an enormous wild boar, killing the animal and sending the youngster on his way to 15 minutes of fame. Or more.

Eleven-year-old Jamison Stone used a .50 caliber revolver to kill the pig at a commercial hunting preserve in east Alabama about three weeks ago. Stone, his father and two guides tracked the pig, but bagging the swine took about three hours of chasing through hilly woods before a final shot at point blank range brought it down for good.

Stone's father, Mike Stone, says the animal weighed more than a thousand pounds and was more than nine feet long. The tusks measured five inches. It took heavy equipment to transport the animal out of the woods. The head went to a taxidermist. The rest is headed for the sausage factory. The Stones could net 500 to 700 pounds of sausage meat."


Well hopefully, that's enough to feed the Stones' entire trailer park.

**Memo to self: don't buy any sausage that comes from Alabama.

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