Posted on 10/02/2012 5:05:08 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
Oregon authorities are investigating how a farmer was eaten by his hogs.
Terry Vance Garner, 69, never returned after he set out to feed his animals last Wednesday on his farm near the Oregon coast, the Coos County district attorney said Monday.
A family member found Garner's dentures and pieces of his body in the hog enclosure several hours later, but most of his remains had been consumed, District Attorney Paul Frasier said. Several of the hogs weighed 700 pounds or more.
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It begs the question will the Garners eat the bacon now??
would you?
I had an aunt who nearly lost her right hand to one of the pigs on her family farm. She had fallen asleep in a hammock in the front yard. When her hand dropped to the ground, one of the pigs wandered over, grabbed her hand in its mouth and started chewing down!
yeah I would want to be looking pretty closely at who would benefit by the guy’s demise. It would not be that hard to plant the body at the pigpen after it was dead.
I’m not citing it as authoritative but I remember the opening scenes in “The Wizard of Oz” where Dorothy falls amongst the hogs and is rescued. The scene is familiarly scary to the viewers of 1939 many of whom were aware of the threat posed by feeding hogs.
Hogs are not your friends.
That raises another question: will the hogs be put down and allowed for any human consumption. Serious question. I would think not but who knows?
Yes
The same could be said of a large segment of the American population.
“large segment”... who happen to live in high population density areas that vote for democrats.
That would be a logical conclusion, often demonstrated by actual “feral” behavior.
You know Sigfied and Roy were never in any real danger. Tigers are carvivores. They don’t eat fruits.
Growing up, we went on vacation for a few days. When I fed the hogs the next day, I counted one less than normal.
All that was left was a vertebrae. The skull was gone. These were 250lb feeder hogs.
Dad said if you ever needed to make someone disappear, that is the way to do it.
Look up the antics of Robert Pickton, an erstwhile Canadian hog farmer.
The TV series Dead Wood and the series Hell on Wheels both include incidents of body disposal by feeding them to hogs.
Pigs are omnivores, but they like raw meat. They aren't really hunters, but they are opportunistic predators. The farmer could have had a heart attack or some other health problem, but he could also have been careless or too trusting, and allowed a pig to walk right up to him. Given the state of his remains, they may never know.
My dad kept a few pigs when I was growing up. My brother and I had the job of watering the pigs, and hosing them off in hot weather. We did the job with spray nozzles from outside the fence. Dad impressed on us quite graphically exactly why we were NEVER, EVER to go into the pen or stick any body part inside for ANY reason whatsoever. He had us watch when he fed them corn cobs, and they chewed them up as easily as a person would chew a cracker. He said, "They can do that to your leg or arm just as easy. They will, too. They'll walk right up to you, calm and quiet, and take a big hunk out of your leg." He spared us the description of what happens after that, but we were old enough to figure it out. Especially since we had already heard him talking about the stories he'd heard growing up...about murderers disposing of bodies by putting them in a pen full of pigs.
Hmmm...interesting concept.I have a brother-in-law that I'm not crazy about....
Only kidding!
I herd on Paul Harvey News, many years ago, of a man in Northern Arizona who was partially consumed by his hogs.
Kind of gives new meaning to the old saying...
Where is John?
Answer; “He went to s#!t and the hogs ate him!”
Or, in polite company: “He departed to defecate and the swine devoured him.”
For those not in the know, hogs will consume manure, their own or some other animal’s.
LOL; you bad.
Not at all. Raise carefully, slaughter and eat. Not pets.
This is why Burt Lahr broke out in such a sweat after rescuing Judy Garland from the hog pen in THE WIZARD OF OZ.
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