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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6195860.stm

Poor kid. I feel sorry for his family, too. :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6195860.stm

Poor kid. I feel sorry for his family, too. :(

See, vegetarians? We have to eat them before they eat US!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6195860.stm

Poor kid. I feel sorry for his family, too. :(

Heh. I was gonna chastise the kid for giving up on one pig, then realized it was a herd.

I feel stupid.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6195860.stm

Poor kid. I feel sorry for his family, too. :(

Pigs are carnivores?

(And its really sad.)

Yeah, I read about that today. Sucks to be him. Hopefully they chewed out his throat before they started on his abdomen. I'd hate to lay there alive while pigs ate my intestines.

Pigs are carnivores?

Omnivores. Just like us.

Yeah, I read about that today. Sucks to be him. Hopefully they chewed out his throat before they started on his abdomen. I'd hate to lay there alive while pigs ate my intestines.

That wouldn't be a very pleasant way to go, eh?

Omnivores. Just like us.

O RLY?

O RLY?

They'd eat him, too, given a chance. Yeah, pigs will eat just about anything.

O RLY?

http://i10.tinypic.com/4gyxahw.jpg

O RLY?Pigs are quite a bit like humans. We even taste like them : http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/09/robot_thinks_pe.html

http://i10.tinypic.com/4gyxahw.jpg

LOL

LOL

http://www.orlyowl.com/loldead.jpg

I just can't grasp the concept of a pig eating a human... :(

I just can't grasp the concept of a pig eating a human... :(

Imagine a guy eating a roasted pig, then remove the snout from the pig and put it on the guy. It's kind of like that only bloodier.

But... pigs are cute and stuff. Not murderers!

But... pigs are cute and stuff. Not murderers!

Cute? They're thousand-pound brutes with tusks that can disembowl horses.

Cute? They're thousand-pound brutes with tusks that can disembowl horses.:eek:

One pig eat 2 pounds of uncooked flesh a minute.

A three year old boy is what, 30 pounds. And that was a whole flock of pigs?

That poor kid must have been eatin in under 5 minutes. Alive.

weird.

That makes me sad.:(

We must wipe out the capitalist pigs, who probably ate the child for cash. Then, the socialist pigs can create a utopia in which little boys are not eaten. :mp5:

They'd eat him, too, given a chance. Yeah, pigs will eat just about anything.You know I remember visiting a friend of my mom's pig farm as a kid. One of the first things I saw was an adult pig munching on a little baby pig. It had the dead baby pig in its mouth and was shaking it back and forth and that is...How I learned that Mother Nature Is A Bitch.:)

*picture snipped*

Not funny. -v-;

Not funny. -v-;

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Yikes :( that sucks.

One pig eat 2 pounds of uncooked flesh a minute.

A three year old boy is what, 30 pounds. And that was a whole flock of pigs?

That poor kid must have been eatin in under 5 minutes. Alive.

Ever see the film Snatch?

Awesome! Pigs are now officially cooler.

First the swine get their revenge on humans. Whats next?
The cows begin milking human mothers! We're doomed!

:eek:

I grew up on a farm. We quit keeping pigs when they knocked a board in their stall aside (broke it, basically) and dragged a new born calf through the wall and began to eat it. Started with the soft parts.

I walked in on this as a pre-teen. I went back to the house, got a gun, came back and shot one of the pigs. Dad arrived at that point, took the gun away and shot the calf.

We got rid of the rest of the pigs shortly afterwards.

Edit: And of course, in Vancouver there is the case of (accused) serial killer/pig farmer Pickton who murdered all those prositutes and fed their remains to his pigs (allegedly, since the trial is still ongoing, but they found those ladies' DNA at the farm so draw your own conclusions).

What a horrible way to good. Damn dirty pigs!

Pigs are carnivores?


Omnivores, IIRC.

Ever see the film Snatch?

Where do you think I learned all this? ;)

Pigs are quite a bit like humans. We even taste like them : http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/09/robot_thinks_pe.html

Prosciutto? Christ. We're fucked.

Pigs are quite a bit like humans. We even taste like them : http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/09/robot_thinks_pe.html

Scary.

You guys didn't know that humans and pigs are extremley similar?

The US has a particularly nasty breed called the Javelina. A buddy hunts pig and was invited to hunt them. He shot one at a distance and was surprised to see a bunch of them swarming the area looking for something to attack.

He said he probably would have been killed if he shot it close.....

Pigs eat people? Well OMG! What next? Sharks eat people?

According to the Royal Alberta Museum's Sharks fact page (http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/edu/infobyte/sharks.htm), you are more likely to be killed by a pig than a shark...

Fantasy: Sharks have a habit of eating people.
Fact: Statistically a person is more likely to be killed by a pig or falling airplane parts than a shark (1 in 300 million). However, if the bodies of all the sharks killed by humans in one year were stacked in a pile, it would weigh more than a billion pounds.

The US has a particularly nasty breed called the Javelina. A buddy hunts pig and was invited to hunt them. He shot one at a distance and was surprised to see a bunch of them swarming the area looking for something to attack.

He said he probably would have been killed if he shot it close.....

Although related to swine, Javelina/peccary (peccary is the proper name) are in a different family all together, not a breed of pig.

Is a javelina a pig?
No, javelina and pigs are members of different zoological families.

The javelina, or collared peccary, is one of three members of the peccary family (Tayassuidae). True pigs, including about nine wild species, belong to the Old World swine family (Suidae). The familiar barnyard pig is a domesticated form of one member of the Old World swine family, the wild boar.

(To be fair, though, many people--including some scientists--use the word "pig" for members of both families. The Desert Museum prefers to reserve that word for the Old world swine, which differ from peccaries in many interesting ways, as we shall see.)

If javelina aren't pigs, then why do they look like pigs?

Javelina resemble pigs for essentially the same reason people resemble their cousins: they have common ancestors. However, the last common ancestors of pigs and peccaries lived tens of millions of years ago, early in the Age of Mammals (Cenozoic Era). By about thirty million years ago pigs and peccaries were already trotting down separate evolutionary paths. How closely are pigs and peccaries related? To put it in perspective, the human family (Hominidae) and the ape family (Pongidae) had common ancestors much more recently--well within the last ten million years. By that standard pigs and peccaries are considerably more distantly related than people and chimpanzees!
http://www.desertmuseum.org/center/edu/faq_desert.php#6


And they aren't nearaly as dangerous as feral swine. I've come in relatively close contact with both razorbacks and javelinas, and I can asure you hiking around a bend in the trail to come face to face with a razorback was a hell of a lot more frightening than doing the same with a whole herd of peccaries.

A speedy, agile runner and a good horizontal jumper. Normally timid and inoffensive; however, a herd will defend itself as a group against predators. Has an unjustified reputation for being dangerous to humans, for, in truth, its so-called “charges” are usually attempts to escape.
http://www.safariclubfoundation.org/humanitarian/sensory/recordbook/dsp_AnimalDetail.cfm?Detail=Peccaries

I saw a news piece sometime back about a Texas man (IIRC) hunting feral pigs and selling them to the meat industry guys. Seems like without a natural predator, the feral pig population has exploded in some parts of the US.

See, vegetarians? We have to eat them before they eat US!

Yeah, or before they eat UK!

I saw a news piece sometime back about a Texas man (IIRC) hunting feral pigs and selling them to the meat industry guys. Seems like without a natural predator, the feral pig population has exploded in some parts of the US.

Indeed the population is exploding in Texas for exactly that reason, although I'm not sure about the legality of selling the meat.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2650348