Wild pig problems in the southeast

[motorcitydak]

This is how they are taken care of. Make sure to watch it with the sound on especially the very end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EymHKsaOpRg

[1969chargerrtse]

Awesome. scary, but awesome.

[hemi-hampton]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla

Maybe this will shed some light on the hoax/real question?

I think Highbank Hauler was commenting on my 2nd pic, not my first pic, Hogzilla #2. Supposably the Pic is legit but how it was cought is not. LEON.

[tricky lugnuts]

OK - But based on Hogzilla - it sounds like some kind of Monster truck or something - being significantly smaller than was claimed at the time (still massive, it's true), I figured that Pic 2 of  "Monster Pig" would also be considered a hoax.

It looks like a few news outlets ran reports of an 11-year-old Alabama boy shooting Monster Pig, claimed to be even larger than the Hogzilla National Geographic had unearthed and debunked (though it was still a massive pig). But apparently the photo was "rigged" using perspective and such to make the pig look much larger than it actually was:

http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-45.php

Apparently some of the news outlets tossed in the hedge "if" when reporting on it to save their reputations just in case:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2007/05/25/monster-pig.htm

Here's a link to the original Fox New story about Monster Pig:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275524,00.html

And apparently, aside from the "optical illusion" aspects of the photo, Monster Pig was in fact (I'd prefer to use possibly) a domestic, farm-raised pig named Fred:

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/hunting/news/story?id=3220628

And it looks like there might be a real scandal here that the AP has not fessed up to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Pig

And a year after the hunt, the scandal unfolds, kind of:

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/hunting/news/story?id=3378412

[tricky lugnuts]

One more - it looks like the AP, to be fair, did report that Monster Pig was not really a feral hog:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18989526/

[hemi-hampton]

Yeah, I read all those before. The Perspective Illusion is nothing like trick photography. It's all in the mind & optical illusion, nothing done in a lab or computer.  LEON.

[Brock Samson]

    http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,29527.0.html   from '07

there was a special i saw some time ago on these pros that would dress their south African dogs breed specially for the duty in Kevlar body armor before releasing them into the swamp to round up the wild boars,.. I bet it was at least 5 years ago I saw this... It was really entertaining, and I seem to remember some guy here on the site who was into it and hunting for squirrels or ground hogs with hand grenades that was a few years back too...

[b5blue]

You were thinking of Cooter!