Monday, June 4, 2007

Monster Pig not so monster?


There is quite a storm of disagreement brewing between this lad's family and a site calling itself Stinky Journalism. Please check out their sites:
Now, any intelligent person can say with confidence that these pictures aren't kosher. It's apparent that tricks of depth perception were used to inflate the statistics and appearance of this hog. It also appears that some amateur photo shopping has been done to the pictures as well. What's troubling now is that the dad apparently won't let go of this story about how he and his son have done nothing, etc. What a great lesson to teach your kid.
However, before we lose perspective, that is a really big hog!! My current understanding of the story is that it's a farm raised hog which basically means immensely overfed for size. My cryptozoological curiosity finds me wondering if a hog could get that big in the wild on its own. What's the far end of the scale for an animal that keeps growing as much as it can eat?

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