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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 10:20 am |
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When I first saw the picture on Kare11, I thought, gee, that's a pretty young kid to be hunting rhino... Then I saw the head.
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Binky .357
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Post subject: Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 5:58 pm |
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Trick photography. He's kneeling down on one knee, some distance behind the hog.
It would be a good picture for the national enquirer, though.
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 8:45 am |
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Joined: Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:11 am Posts: 572 Location: West of Hope, MN (S. Central MN)
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The kid & his hog were featured on ABC "Good Morning America". Interviewed the kid. Showed several other pictures of the hog. Said the handgun was a .50 caliber. Had comments from several others comfirming the hog.
The previous record hog was 800 pounds. This one weighed 900.
No "anti-hunting" or "kids with handguns comments". Actually well done with no anti comments.
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 9:31 am |
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Joined: Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:20 am Posts: 3311 Location: St. Paul, MN.
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still say doctored photo..................1200 lb dairy cows aren't that massive
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Post subject: Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 9:34 am |
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Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:54 am Posts: 5270 Location: Minneapolis
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Maybe not doctored, but staged. All of the pictures on the website are using hinky perspective with regard to where the people are standing or kneeling.
I have no doubt its a big pig, but not as big as they are trying to make it appear.
If it was me, and I thought I had killed the biggest pig around, I'd get some witnesses who didn't know me before I had it cut up.
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:24 am |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:01 am |
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His name was Fred.
Quote: Pig was a monster, but he wasn't wild
Fri Jun 1, 11:45 PM ET
The huge hog that became known as "Monster Pig" after being hunted and killed by an 11-year-old boy had another name: Fred. The not-so-wild pig had been raised on an Alabama farm and was sold to the Lost Creek Plantation just four days before it was shot there in a 150-acre fenced area, the animal's former owner said.
Phil Blissitt told The Anniston Star in a story Friday that he bought the 6-week-old pig in December 2004 as a Christmas gift for his wife, Rhonda, and that they sold it after deciding to get rid of all the pigs at their farm.
"I just wanted the truth to be told. That wasn't a wild pig," Rhonda Blissitt said.
Jamison Stone shot the huge hog during what he and his father described as a three-hour chase. They said it was more than 1,000 pounds and 9 feet long; if anything, it looked even bigger in a now-famous photo of the hunter and the hunted.
Mike Stone said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Friday that he had been under the impression that the hog was wild, not farm-raised.
Telephone messages left Friday with Eddy Borden, the owner of Lost Creek Plantation, were not immediately returned.
Stone said state wildlife officials told him that it is not unusual for hunting preserves to buy farm-raised hogs and that the hogs are considered feral once they are released.
Stone said he and his son met Blissitt on Friday morning to get more details about the hog. Blissitt said that he had about 15 hogs and decided to sell them for slaughter, but that no one would buy that particular animal because it was too big for slaughter or breeding, Stone said.
Blissitt said that the pig had become a nuisance and that visitors were often frightened by it, Stone said.
"He was nice enough to tell my son that the pig was too big and needed killing," Stone said. "He shook Jamison's hand and said he did not kill the family pet."
The Blissitts said they didn't know the hog that was hunted was Fred until they were contacted by a game warden for the Alabama Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. The agency determined that no laws were violated in the hunt.
Phil Blissitt said he became irritated when he learned that some thought the photo of Fred was doctored.
"That was a big hog," he said.
Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
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