Fauxtography? 11-year-old bags half-ton wild hog
posted at 4:59 pm on May 25, 2007 by Allahpundit
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It’s the most pork you’ll see this side of Capitol Hill. I can’t believe it’s real, but supposedly they’ve sent it to the taxidermist and…
The hog’s head is now being mounted on an extra-large foam form by Jerry Cunningham of Jerry’s Taxidermy in Oxford. Cunningham said the animal measured 54 inches around the head, 74 inches around the shoulders and 11 inches from the eyes to the end of its snout.
“It’s huge,” he said. “It’s just the biggest thing I’ve ever seen.”
The boy’s father says they’re turning the rest of it into sausage. Yeah — they’re actually going to eat it. Southerners.
Exit question: Didn’t I last see this thing chasing Westley and Buttercup around the Fire Swamp?
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Hogzillas do exist.
Valiant on May 25, 2007 at 5:02 PM
They sure do. Discovery did a special on the original “hogzilla” – its dimensions were exagerrated; but the picture was not photoshopped.
Pigs never stop growing. The more they eat, the bigger they get. So a half ton pig is possible.
I’m not a hunter, so I think I’d crap my pants if something that big came at me.
lorien1973 on May 25, 2007 at 5:03 PM
I guess as “Allah” Pundit the finer delicacies like Bacon on bacon with bacon sandwiches covered in fatback grease, with a side of ham elude you eh AP?
(Don’t ban meeeeeee pweese!)
Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on May 25, 2007 at 5:06 PM
…so I guess Rosie won’t be coming back…
G on May 25, 2007 at 5:07 PM
May be legit, but to me it looks like the kid is sitting quite a ways behind the porker, distorting their relative size.
Cue: Theme from “Deliverance”
Labamigo on May 25, 2007 at 5:07 PM
It could be a real pig, maybe even 1,000 pounds for all I know, but the photo is using a perspective trick to make the carcass look deceptively large. The kid appears to be kneeling some distance behind it, which makes him appear smaller relative to the pig than he actually is.
Blacklake on May 25, 2007 at 5:07 PM
I don’t think the kid is kneeling behind it–he looks to be bent forward leaning on the beast. Mmmmmm massive pork chops…
All this big slab o bacon needs is a few Terydactyl eggs. YUM!
robblefarian on May 25, 2007 at 5:11 PM
Yeah, if the pig is in the extreme foreground, and the kid is leaning on a stump behind it…it’s the equivalent of holding a stringer of fish way forward so they look relatively bigger.
But I think it’s still safe to say, that’s a big pig. And a big gun for an 11-year old kid.
I know a cowboy who used to go out and lasso these things when they got troublesome. He had quite a collection of them penned up.
see-dubya on May 25, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Enough already of Rosie
abinitioadinfinitum on May 25, 2007 at 5:13 PM
Yeah, I dunno if I’d eat a giant mutant pig…
Though those would be some giant friggin strips of bacon…mmmmm, giant friggin strips of bacon *drool*
Bad Candy on May 25, 2007 at 5:13 PM
It appears the monsterpig site is getting a little too much traffic right now.
Zetterson on May 25, 2007 at 5:14 PM
tee hee
ej_pez on May 25, 2007 at 5:16 PM
Hey AP….if I didn’t know better, I’d say you are MKH baiting…. :)
JadeNYU on May 25, 2007 at 5:18 PM
My only question… what in the world did he use to bring that beast down? An ICBM?
Hootie on May 25, 2007 at 5:20 PM
I don’t know how tasty this thing would be. It’s old and tough and it’s an intact boar. I wouldn’t want to eat it, sausage or no sausage.
If the weight is correct and the thing is real (and I’m willing to believe that it is), it’s close to the size of the typical beef animal that goes on your table. I’ve seen domestic boars that weighed 700-800 pounds. Found an article on weights on Large White sows up to five or six years of age that had average weights as high as over 600 pounds. Sows are not usually kept around until they die of old age so the weight of a five or six year old sow is not indicative of how heavy one might get if she were allowed to live into old age.
LibbyLA on May 25, 2007 at 5:20 PM
That’s just…kinda freaky.
vcferlita on May 25, 2007 at 5:24 PM
Um…how was this big bastard running around long enough to get that big??
And this….
Exit question: Didn’t I last see this thing chasing Westley and Buttercup around the Fire Swamp?
tickleddragon on May 25, 2007 at 5:26 PM
Most of us eat what we kill; it’s an honor kind of a thing. And oh man does that porker look good or what!
Th story is a little weird. But this bugs me most:
Usually that’s hollywood. “chasing through woods” is easier said than done; it usually means looking through the woods to find out where the silly thing died. But maybe this elephant was genuinely chase-able. I imagine it would even leave prints :)
Axe on May 25, 2007 at 5:26 PM
ugh…screwed up that quote block… oh well.
tickleddragon on May 25, 2007 at 5:26 PM
Eat it? What a waste. Can’t we use this thing to defeat Islam?
Gregor on May 25, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Pass me your plate Libby.
Axe on May 25, 2007 at 5:27 PM
ba ha, ha, ha……
that comment made me snort coke through my nose.
I’m still laughing.
lan astaslem on May 25, 2007 at 5:28 PM
I think this is a photoshop. I’d swear I saw this same photo last year, and it looks like the kid is holding a paintball gun. But I might be wrong.
Gregor on May 25, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Never mind. The lines on his shirt made it look like a paintball rifle. And THIS is the photo I was thinking of from last year.
Gregor on May 25, 2007 at 5:31 PM
I know there’s a tasteless Rosie joke in there somewhere, but I can’t bring myself to say it.
corbettw on May 25, 2007 at 5:32 PM
I’m thinking a C-130 load of Hogzillas could do a lot of good in the Anbar province. How about parachuting them into Bin Laden country up in the tribal areas of Pakistan? Hundreds of them!
Tantor on May 25, 2007 at 5:32 PM
Gregor that gun looks like maybe a black S&W 500 or maybe a Taurus Raging Bull, which are both 50 cals. The only reason I know the S&W 500 is because its in Resident Evil 4 (unlockable, called the Handcannon), so I went from there and looked up 50 cal guns, it looks like a 50 cal gun, so maybe its the real thing.
Bad Candy on May 25, 2007 at 5:35 PM
I saw this picture next to the Rosie pic and thought I had double vision. Just like in the ‘Trapper Keeper’ episode of South Park.
ReubenJCogburn on May 25, 2007 at 5:36 PM
It is the S&W 500 and he shot it 8 times, chased it for 3-hours.
Editor on May 25, 2007 at 5:37 PM
It’s still weird Gregor. I’m just trying to ignore the 50 cal pistol waving through the woods incongruities ’cause I want it to be real :) Probably for no other reason than it’s dinner time.
Wait, does that make me a liberal?
Axe on May 25, 2007 at 5:37 PM
There is a website already up for this event: http://www.monsterpig.com
The father of the kid put up the site. As of about 5 minutes ago, though, the site was down. But it has more pictures and this appears to be the real deal. It’s almsot as big as an adult rhinocerus. I wish I’d saved some of the pictures, but hopefully the website will be back up.
It’s also on Breitbart: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PBKB5G0&show_article=1&image=large
SilverStar830 on May 25, 2007 at 5:39 PM
As a hunter/fisher I thought that was cruel. First, what kind of a hunter uses a .50 caliber pistol? (I guess it hurts Jr.’s shoulder to fire a rifle…awe boo-hoo!) Then they followed the animal around for 3 hours so Jr. could get a clean shoot. Meanwhile, Dad and the guides stood back with high-powered rifles. Am I crazy for thinking that hunters should respect the life of their prey and not allow it to suffer greatly?
Sorry, but I despise “trophy” hunting, especially canned hunting. At least they’re going to make sausage.
budorob on May 25, 2007 at 5:40 PM
For it to be fauxtography, you’d have to have plumes of smoke rising off the carcass.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on May 25, 2007 at 5:40 PM
Libby beat me to it.
Regardless of the picture this Hog is as big as a good sized cow, considering an average cattle weight of 800lb to 1000+lb.
That’s a might big pig.
Lawrence on May 25, 2007 at 5:45 PM
I thought people used pistols to up the challenge because you have to get much closer, budorub. Dunno, I don’t even hunt, unless playing zombie shooting games counts. My understanding is a .50 cal pistol will hurt your wrist though, so I think that’s a bit unfair.
Bad Candy on May 25, 2007 at 5:49 PM
Erm…not to condone that sort of thing, but isn’t that the traditional means of ingestion?
Blacklake on May 25, 2007 at 5:51 PM
I am having these erotic fantasies of capturing this Hog alive, and drop it (also alive, but hungry) via helo in Mecca during Ramadan
Ropera on May 25, 2007 at 5:53 PM
Now there’s an idea for the Photoshoppers out there with too much time on their hands: swap in Elizabeth Hasselbeck for the kid in the picture, and it’s perfect.
Spurius Ligustinus on May 25, 2007 at 5:58 PM
I thought I’d be original and make a final Rosie joke under this post but I see it’s already been done. Oh well..
I know this story is being reported at FOXNews.com and YahooNews but the image has got to be photoshoped! I mean, that is too incredible!!
Joshua P. Allem on May 25, 2007 at 6:05 PM
F’n brilliant. Wish I’d thought of it.
ReubenJCogburn on May 25, 2007 at 6:06 PM
LOL, oh now don’t dis the pig.
Actually this is a relative of domestic pigs running wild and they can be irritable.
A wild boar that weighs between 100 and 250 pounds that you can hear sharpening its tusks (they’re self sharpening) in the bush before it charges is something that will raise the hair on the back of your neck. Every time.
They move like lightening and I saw one attack a Blazer once, it caved in the door, the driver shot it through the window.
Self defense.
Fun stuff, when your friend shoots one close enough that smoke comes out of the wound, now that’s entertainment.
Speakup on May 25, 2007 at 6:11 PM
I don’t buy the photo… For some reason the pig in the photo just looks a lot heaver than a half-ton to me. And I’ve watched specials and read about Hogzilla and most of the “information” seems to be myth.
Either way, I’ll be interested when they find a Champ carcass.
RightWinged on May 25, 2007 at 6:14 PM
You asked for it
William Amos on May 25, 2007 at 6:18 PM
Er…. um, I should have stated that a little differently. Coke as in cola as in stupid human tricks.
lan astaslem on May 25, 2007 at 6:21 PM
Exit answer: john murtha was chasing it.
locomotivebreath1901 on May 25, 2007 at 6:33 PM
I dunno about that picture, but this one is certainly Photoshoped.
There’s your original Rosie joke, folks.
Joshua P. Allem on May 25, 2007 at 6:34 PM
I made one too. Not my best work by any means.
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4690/lizrosiedm4.jpg
SillyRyno on May 25, 2007 at 6:35 PM
Oh well, the link didn’t work. Try this one.
Joshua P. Allem on May 25, 2007 at 6:35 PM
MAN! If my link hadn’t failed, I woulda been first!
Oh well, your’s is better SillyRyno!
Congradulations.
Joshua P. Allem on May 25, 2007 at 6:36 PM
It does indeed count. Nasty things, those zombies. By the way, RE4 was an amazing game. Have you seen the trailers for the new RE?
JadeNYU on May 25, 2007 at 6:36 PM
I thought the EXACT same thing. If you’re going to kill it, then kill it.
I bet the meat won’t be all that tasty anyways.
SouthernGent on May 25, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Allah, It’s more of a POUS really.
- The Cat
MirCat on May 25, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Exit question: What the hell is an 11 year old doing with a .50 cal pistol? Shouldn’t he be off playing lazer tag or paint ball? I teach middle school and I would not want ANY of the students at my school working a big handgun like that. Go shoot rabbits with a .22 kid.
Mojave Mark on May 25, 2007 at 7:10 PM
That was a good one. *nods approvingly*
Mojave Mark on May 25, 2007 at 7:11 PM
Blown up 800%, the squares of color are the exact same size at the outer perimeter of the hog…either the most masterful of photoshops, or it’s real. In my amateur opinion, it’s real.
JustTruth101 on May 25, 2007 at 7:11 PM
I agree that the adults standing back while a kid chases and shots 8 times, just so he can say he bagged it with a handgun, it in poor taste. Track it, find it, finish it off.
Of course, this monster may not have noticed one or two of the slugs it got hit with, given that massive bulk.
Freelancer on May 25, 2007 at 7:16 PM
Daaaaamn…that’s a whole lot of haram.
flipflop on May 25, 2007 at 7:16 PM
I’m pro second…that said what we have is a little boy who’s being taught to kill innocent creatures FOR entertainment!
What a fine achievement.
///sarcasm
annoyinglittletwerp on May 25, 2007 at 7:29 PM
Unless that kid has 20+ inch barrel on that pistol (uh-uh) there are at least perspective problems with this photo.
Stephen M on May 25, 2007 at 7:35 PM
Can’t we use all that ham as kryptonite against islamofascists?
digitalintrigue on May 25, 2007 at 7:36 PM
LMAO!
PRCalDude on May 25, 2007 at 7:55 PM
Oh, snap!
WisCon on May 25, 2007 at 8:03 PM
I got my first pig at the first of this month down in Freer, TX…with a knife…no kidding. 152 lb. wild hog. 2 inch tusks. It’s no hogzilla, but it was quite an event taking him with a knife.
Check him out…
BirdEye on May 25, 2007 at 8:15 PM
MIGHTY NICE!
sonnyspats1 on May 25, 2007 at 8:28 PM
TheBigOldDog on May 25, 2007 at 9:14 PM
The kid said: “I probably won’t ever kill anything else that big again.”
Let’s hope not!
BLT’s for Georgia!
profitsbeard on May 25, 2007 at 9:15 PM
Allah, You’ve never had Pittsburg hot links wrapped in intestine with tobasco sauce? (Pittsburg, Texas that is)
Drtuddle on May 25, 2007 at 9:21 PM
Oh HONESTLY!
That handgun is not big enough to put away a slab of lard as big as that.
THAT thing is bigger than a Cape Buffalo! And anyone know what one needs to take one of those down?
Maybe the kid did get a big hog, but not THAT big.
Funny tho.
I did laugh when I saw it.
naliaka on May 25, 2007 at 9:27 PM
Birdeye,
Nice! No doubt this picture is genuine. Hogs grow and grow and unless they are killed, the continue to grow. I just don’t see the need to finish him off with a handgun. The rifles pointing at him should have done the trick. Pitiful hunters. The rifle bearers should have shot this one, IMO.
Neocon Peg on May 25, 2007 at 9:31 PM
Birdeye,
The picture I was commenting about was the one the 11-year old shot, not your picture! Good job!
Neocon Peg on May 25, 2007 at 9:32 PM
Manbearpig?
reaganaut on May 25, 2007 at 9:52 PM
HOPELESS! That picture???
from Wikipedia (trustworthy in this case cause there’s nothing to link the subject to Pres Bush).
2.8 meters long = 280 cm = 9.2 feet long
old bull = 800-900 kg or 1763 lbs – 1984 lbs
That photo hog is bigger than a Cape Buffalo, but its written stats aren’t.
Kinda pushes all the Northerner’s redneck buttons, tho’.
naliaka on May 25, 2007 at 10:03 PM
These critters aren’t Porky Pig. Here, you see one and either you shoot it or call someone who will. Last thing you want to do is tell it how cute it is. It is one dangerous animal.
Limerick on May 25, 2007 at 10:14 PM
Jade, you’re probably not gonna see this, I haven’t seen the new RE. I’ll have to look into it. I hope its as good as RE4. I actually hated the old ones. RE4 was the only one I liked.
Bad Candy on May 25, 2007 at 10:40 PM
I demand to know what the government is doing to protect our children from monstrous forest-dwelling pigs.
BelchSpeak on May 25, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Well…Once upon a time there was this show call ‘The View’ and…… :)
Limerick on May 25, 2007 at 10:47 PM
AllahP….honestly, that is just insulting. I suppose your “New York” superiority attitude overcomes you at times. Why was it necessary to slur “Southerners”? Good Grief.
A LOT of us “down here” are worldly and wise. Why make a cheap slur at our expense? I frankly dont appreciate it and have noticed it a few times lately.
labwrs on May 25, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Agreed.
What would you have them do Allah? Just let it rot? I was always told growing up that if you kill something you better eat it (doesn’t count for roadkill).
SillyRyno on May 25, 2007 at 10:58 PM
There is a song called “Poke Salad” which is what my Grandmother used to pick out of the yard and boil for supper and EAT seasoned with pork.
OK, this is a silly post about a big pig..we get that…but they arent running around anywhere near my house!
But honestly, I dont like your attitude toward “Southerners”. I have a wonderful brother-in-law who lives in…NEW YORK and LOVES it. When I visit him, we dont do the “Southerners” are ignorant morons thing…….why here at HotAir?
Sorry but this really REALLY annoys me!
labwrs on May 25, 2007 at 11:06 PM
I took it as a joke. I guess the hog had thicker skin.
reaganaut on May 25, 2007 at 11:09 PM
Jurasic Pork???
mrfixit on May 25, 2007 at 11:09 PM
A lot of big wild pigs that are running around in the Southern states are direct descendants of the hogs that DeSoto had with him during his expedition. When his expedition got attacked by Choctaws in Mississippi, the pigs got away. This giant hog might be a descendant of one of those Spanish pigs.
SillyRyno on May 25, 2007 at 11:16 PM
I am glad you did. I didnt. It gets old. How is it we never see posts about “dumb, ignorant” people from Iowa? Maine?Indiana?Illinois?North Dakota? South Dakota? ANYWHERE buy somewhere in the South/SouthEast/SouthWest…always WE are the subject of ridicule and IT GETS OLD.
labwrs on May 25, 2007 at 11:19 PM
Eight shots to kill this absolute frikin giant. I have seen a possum take that many (.22 long rifle as critter gun). I am impressed beyond measure. Glad I am teaching my grandkids lessons out by the compost pile.
RushBaby on May 25, 2007 at 11:22 PM
Quoted for truth.
Check this out. Mississippi advertisement:
http://www.mississippibelieveit.com/img/ads/PRINT_READ.jpg
SillyRyno on May 25, 2007 at 11:23 PM
Good!
And now you become a sterotype. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…..
Still…RushBaby…GO!
labwrs on May 25, 2007 at 11:26 PM
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS!!!
labwrs on May 25, 2007 at 11:28 PM
Luckily, living out here in the countryside, I can take the arsenal and the avid kids out to the compost pile and plug away. My oldest grandkid (12) takes *joy* in teaching his younger siblings what he has learned: technique, responsibility, safety.
RushBaby on May 25, 2007 at 11:47 PM
Yes, an 8 inch filet knife. I highly recommend the experience. We used Catahoula hounds to locate the pigs and we used Dogos (a breed from Argentina) as “catch” dogs. They had kevlar vests to protect them from the tusks. That’s the way they “stick a pig” down there (South Texas.)
Sonnyspats1, NeoCon Peg, …thank y’all very much!
p.s. I am originally from Mississippi and we seriously don’t mind the jokes. At least we’re not from Alabama. When I go to Wisconsin they ask if we “have air conditioning down there” from all the sweaty actors in the John Grisham movies.
BirdEye on May 26, 2007 at 12:20 AM
Oh, I was with a border patrol agent named, Lupe as well. They were his dogs.
BirdEye on May 26, 2007 at 12:21 AM
Alicia Silverstone is indignant.
Entelechy on May 26, 2007 at 12:21 AM
I’m from Mississippi and got my law degree in Mississippi. I consider myself an intelligent person. The jokes DO get old.
SillyRyno on May 26, 2007 at 12:24 AM
Different strokes for different folks…
BirdEye on May 26, 2007 at 12:42 AM
I am from Alabama and here we say thank God for Mississippi.
EnochCain on May 26, 2007 at 1:01 AM
You know how they know Jesus wasn’t born in Alabama?
- You ain’t gonna find three wise men and a virgin in Alabama.
SillyRyno on May 26, 2007 at 1:09 AM
Har har har lol
EnochCain on May 26, 2007 at 1:13 AM
You all probably don’t want to hear how a bowhunting trip can go either. I’m willing to bet that if the kid and his dad had thought they would encounter something of this size they would have brought different weapons.
I have the conch and I say…..kill the pig, spill his blood!!!
TBinSTL on May 26, 2007 at 1:28 AM
The photograph is not Photoshopped.
As noted by lorien1973 on May 25, 2007 at 5:03 PM and Blacklake on May 25, 2007 at 5:07 PM, the photo is using a perspective trick to make the carcass look deceptively large. The kid is kneeling some distance behind it, which makes him appear smaller relative to the pig than he actually is.
slp on May 26, 2007 at 2:13 AM
I’m just tripping on the whole 50. My dad gave me my own 20 gauge on my 12th birthday, and my own 30-30 on my 13th. If he caught me with his old 45, he’d have taken it out of my hands and shot me with it, just to make the point :) I realize this varies, but honestly, 11 years old and hunting with a 50 pistol? Not earth shattering or anything, just surprising.
That’s nice, BirdEye. And a nice story to carry too.
Funny. I’m from Louisiana and here we thank God for Texas. They hold the western front, you understand.
Axe on May 26, 2007 at 3:23 AM
Rosie tries jogging and gets taken down by a young David.
Hening on May 26, 2007 at 7:15 AM
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