Hog Wash

I'm sure by now you've heard either on the news or read online about Hogzilla II being caught. Yep, yet another story about rednecks paying to hunt at a commercial hunting preserve.  This time it was a redneck boy that killed the gigantic hog.  An 11-year old boy used a $1500 .50 caliber Smith and Wesson revolver to kill the hog, which weighed an impressive 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4 inches long.   This one is even bigger than Hogzilla.   If the claims are accurate,  this boy's hog would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004.  Hogzilla originally was thought to weigh 1,000 pounds and measure 12 feet in length. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 feet long.

Now we find out that Hogzilla II, aka Monster Pig, was not a mutant gargantuan feral hog, but just a giant hog that was raised on a farm and was named Fred.  Fred was owned by a couple from Anniston, Alabama, and they sold him along with all of the hogs on their farm to the owner of the hunting preserve where Fred was killed.  Fred and the other hogs were sold just 4 days before he was killed by the redneck boy.  The couple said they didn't want wrong information being told about Fred.  "He wasn't a wild pig," they said. 

I looked at the photos on the internet of Fred, and I'm sorry to disappoint you, faithful readers, but I just can't bring myself to post the photos.  No matter what the redneck boy, his father, or the Alabama Department of Fish and Wildlife say, I still think the pictures have been Photoshopped.   You can do a search and find the pictures easily.  The one in question is the main photo making the rounds in the newspaper and websites.  It shows the redneck boy standing behing the hog, apparently leaning against it.   The redneck boy's website said that he is 5 feet 5 inches tall.  I'm sorry, but given that information, then based on that picture the hog should be about 20 feet long.  I'm not buying it.