Doesn’t anyone find this peculiar?
Boy bags wild hog bigger than ‘Hogzilla’ – USATODAY.com — This story cropped up a couple of days ago and I’m having trouble believing it — at all. I know there are woods in Alabama where varmits can hide, but still. How does this monster get this big without being noticed somewhere along the way? This thing is the size of a big bear. And to make the yarn even more incredible the thing is dropped with a pistol? Was the kid shooting a .454 Casull? I think not although the 11-year-old is shown with some sort of hand-held cannon that would knock him on his keister. This just does not wash.
Where is the video? Who hauled it out of the forest? Who is butchering it for food? In Alabama they would have already been planning a barbecue. And exactly where are the local bloggers with their cameras? And there should be a crowd of gawkers, where are they?
Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.
If the claims are accurate, Jamison Stone’s trophy boar 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 long. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 feet long.
story first found by Bubba Martin
1. I believe it was about to DIE anyway.
2. Its Bigger then a BIG bear.
3. same question, WHERE?
4. I REALLy bet it wasnt moving FAST.
5. PHOTO SHOP…
“where are the local bloggers?”
What local bloggers? I live in South Louisiana and I’m the only blogger for 40 miles (www.geauxshow.com). Hell, given the currently crappy state of telecom infrasturcture around the gulf coast, I bet the nearest internet connection to that kill is Mobile.
btw, if you are a blogger in South Louisiana (Lafayette, Baton Rouge and New Orleans dont count) Speak up would ya?
More pics at http://www.monsterpig.com/
If the story is true, I’m impressed that an 11-year-old boy could accurately shoot a .50 caliber handgun. I weigh almost 200 pounds, and shooting one of those things just about knocks me over from the recoil.
A Reuter-shop job.
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Has this been verified yet? Maybe this thing was running away from the polar bear
hmm, looks like forced perspective photos on the o-site.
#x, DWB, That link is great. I enjoyed that it’s sponsored by:
CookersandGrills.com !!
Mmm… Bacon.
Indeed all the pics are obviously shot with people far in the background. This is a hoax and AP was suckered. Good work.
Hogzilla was overstated too, here from urban legends:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/256537.htm
Photoshop.. Select the pig, copy, enlarge the selection, paste.
It shows in the larger sticks and grass sticking to the pigs hide than is available in the surrounding area. The scammer should have use other tools to reduce that evidence.
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lol, i like the cookersandgrills site, the pic where they are all posing around the pig and the two on the ends seem to be FLOATING IN THE AIR! WOW! not only do they get to find and eat big pigs they can defy gravity as well
Having lived in rural Florida and traipsed around rural Alabama courtesy of the US Army, I am dang certain this boar is for real. There are some crazy big critters in those woods.
Not all of America is paved over just yet.
Looks like one of the monsters from “Tremors”.
is that a republican or a democrat?
#19….Dose it matter? Bush obviously did it.
This story is making the Times of London among other news sites. The Times said they made 2800 sausages out of it. Brits love their bangers…..lol
The original CNN story I saw said the boy shot with a 50-caliber pistol. A friend had one of those for bear up in Alaska, one shot and that’s it but it would stop a bear if it hit, or so he said. CNN said the boy’s father and a guide both had high-powered rifles trained on the pig while the boy took, I forget how many shots to bring it down. CNN also said it was weight on a spring scale that went up in 10-pound increments and they thought 1,060 was closer to the real weight but they said 1051 just to indicate “more than 1050.”
Somebody’s making a low-budget movie about Hogzilla and I think CNN said the boy was going to get a small part in it.
Is it real? Who cares?
Who lets an 11 yr old kid traipse around the bush with a 50 cal PISTOL in his hand? If this pig is honest, then it should have taken something a lot larger then a pistol to bring him down. This is close to Darwin Award material.
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That was Britney Spears’ rebound boyfriend.
#22, Mr. Fusion, A 1/2 inch diameter bullet to the head would probably ruin even a large lion or tiger’s day, don’t you think? And yes, .50 caliber is huge for a kid, bet it would hurt me just to fire it. But what do I know, I don’t hunt anymore, I fish.
.454 Casull? Sounds like John knows something about guns! I think it was supposed to be a 500 S&W Magnum. No eleven-year-old kid could shoot that cartridge, no matter how precocious. The story is pure urban legend.
Reminds me of when my brother got a pellet gun for Christmas, went out and bagged himself a squirrel within five minutes, then photoshopped it to five feet long.
Hoo boy! You need to go read the negative feedback comments on that MonsterPig.com website. Funny stuff!
After seeing more of the blurry still picts, I am now convinced this is a hoax. I will believe it when I see the carcass or the skull on video.
checked out the hog site. I like how they have the negative-positive comments split.
This is a fake. Look at the size relationship between the boy and the hog in the first two pictures on the website. When the hog is on the ground it’s huge compared to the boy. When the hog is hanging from it’s foot it’s suddenly much, much smaller.
I’ve blown up this photo to show the pretty obvious manipulation. It’s remarkable that even today major news outlets have so little understanding of pixels they can’t see even primitive digital tricks.
http://createch.net/dvorak/hogblur.jpg
http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m211/Bigamhuntr/