Boy, 11, shoots biggest hog in the backwoods

[howufiga]

I don't know if this is true, but holy moly man!


THEY swear he is one of the most humungous hogs ever seen – and not just a giant porkie. A pig the size of a hatchback has been reported shot dead by an 11-year-old boy using a pistol.

The male wild pig, which is said to weigh half a ton and measure more than 9ft long, was apparently killed by Jamison Stone, a schoolboy from Alabama, while out hunting with his father Mike.

The dead boar has been hailed as a contender for the largest wild pig ever found, but the Stones are unsentimental about their trophy.
“We’ll probably get 500lb to 700lb of sausages out of him,” Mike Stone told Associated Press.



full story here --> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1845385.ece

 

[got14u]

That's a pretty old article. But I must agree that is one BIG piece of meat

 

[kaiser]

I remember when that story went around in '07... The hog is big, but if you take another look at the picture, the boy is sitting pretty far back behind the hog - so it's not as big as it looks at first.

 

[howufiga]

Yeah, it's old. i didn't see the date. I knew it was too good to be true though. Check link below

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hogzilla.asp

 

[grouper sandwich]

I also think that this "incident" resulted in criminal charges against the boy's father and the pig's "owner". Supposedly the pig was a pet that was hand fed canned sweet potatoes and given the name of Fred. The boys father payed the owner a rather large sum of money to allow his son to "shoot" the beast. Appearently it was shoot many, many times but refused to run away because it was a pet didn't understand what was happening to it. It's a really sad and disgusting tale of what greed can do to people and in NO WAY should be considered hunting nor the people who propogated the crime be considered hunters.

From Wikipedia:

Shortly after the story hit the press, the truth about the origins of the pig were revealed. Four days before "Monster Pig" was shot, he lived on a nearby farm under the name "Fred." The owners, Rhonda and Phil Blissitt, stated that the pig loved to play with their grandchildren and his favorite treat was canned sweet potatoes.[9][10] however the Blissits in fact sold the pig to the game preserve[11] and he was released on the reserve four days before being hunted and killed by Stone.

The original owners of Fred, Phil and Rhonda Blissitt, sold him to the owner of the hunting preserve just four days before he was killed, and according to the Anniston Star report had raised him from a piglet as a pet. The Blissitts had been selling all of the pigs on their farm, and came forward as they were concerned that Fred was being passed off as a wild pig.

As reported on January 29, 2008, an Alabama grand jury was investigating Jamison Stone, on animal cruelty charges, along with his father Mike Stone, expedition leaders Keith O'Neal and Charles Williams, and Lost Creek Plantation grounds owner Eddy Borden.[13] The article ("Exclusive: Grand jury to investigate 'monster pig' kill") revealed information subpoenaed by the Clay County District Attorney Fred Thompson.

 

[howufiga]

Wow, thats story is sad!!! :(

 

[pandemonium]

i knew that pic didn't look real, looked fake to me

 

[meateater]

No comment and no comment about snopes. This is a old story. Take it with a grain of salt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla