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Boy, 11, Bags Hog Bigger Than Hogzilla

by Kadeeae | May 26, 2007 at 07:55 am

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Jamison Stone's father states that the hog weighs over 1,000 pounds and is over 9 feet long.

I understand that the boy feels a sense of achievement, but personally I just found the whole story sad.

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Brian A Kennedy

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at 06:23 on May 28th, 2007

The pic looked like a bad Photoshop job to me, but the experts have vetted it...and yeah, it is pretty sad.

kate

at 14:24 on May 28th, 2007

I totally agree. Why kill it? People are sick.

ionnes

at 13:39 on May 30th, 2007

Why is it sad? Because he killed it himself? Do you eat meat? Do you wear leather? It's not sick to kill an animal to eat it. It's part of nature. Myself, I don't hunt, and I don't eat pork, but I certainly don't have a problem with him doing it. I probably would have chosen a different weapon, but that's neither here nor there. I also wouldn't hunt in a confined area as they did, but this was a feral animal that would do nothing but damage the enviroment it was in, since it didn't belong there.

As far as the photo where he is standing behind the pig, he was probably farther than you can tell behind it causing forced perspective to make the animal look bigger and not photoshop. That explaination works, and it's easier, so it's probably true.

timmyb

at 09:27 on June 1st, 2007

ionnes has a point. Feral animals destroy enviroments and feral hogs are one of the most violent types. While I do not condone senseless animal slaughter, hunting this type of animal helps whatever enviroment it may be living in at that moment.

The father seems to have good hunting ethics, too. Hunting animals for sustinance has been mankind's job for centuries, and this dad seems to honor that. It's the recklesss hunters that give hunting a bad name.