9 foot long wild pig

[twisted firestarter]

What do you make of this claim?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRfOMkbpiP4

I know everything is meant to be bigger in the States but this is ridiculous

 

[fred gordon]

Wonder if it lived near a nuclear facility or was an escapee from a GM lab?

 

[KAE1]

Digital wizardry I guess

 

[rich59]

The next biggest pig http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla

 

[twisted firestarter]

The next biggest pig http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla

Hogzilla- that made me spit my tea on the keyboard Rich

 

[jon r]

what a bunch of ......

 

[Eric_Methven]

Wonder if it lived near a nuclear facility or was an escapee from a GM lab?

With it being in Alabama, the pig's parents were probably brother and sister! That coulda dun it!

 

[madrussian]

I could be that he's just a very small 11 year old boy.

 

[David.s]

Seen it on channel 4 and 5 news, madness i tell you lol

 

[Moff8]

Read about this on the Register. Boy shot it with a .50 pistol a number of times then trailed it for 3 hours. Meanwhile his father stood at the ready with a hunting rifle in case it attacked. Nicer if they had managed to give the pig a quicker death.

 

[CLEM]

That things as big a damn hippo,must be photoshopped shurely???

 

[woodstock]

Read about this on the Register. Boy shot it with a .50 pistol a number of times then trailed it for 3 hours. Meanwhile his father stood at the ready with a hunting rifle in case it attacked. Nicer if they had managed to give the pig a quicker death.

I would have to agree 3hrs the beast must have been in pain...even so why would you want to shoot such a magnificent animal in the first place

 

[C_Claycomb]

...even so why would you want to shoot such a magnificent animal in the first place?

Apart from the damage that they do as an introduced species? We get awful annoyed over the Americans sending us the grey squirrel and the Canadian goose, but they are only paying us back for the pig!

 

[-Switch-]

That photo's genuine, but there's a bit of perspective play going on. The boy is leaning on something quite far behind the boar to make it appear larger. There are other photo's of it on the 'net that show it's real size. It's still a big 'un, just not that big.

There's a link to the pics somewhere...

 

[Rebel]

Read all about it; here:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hogzilla.asp

As a photographer I reckon that the picture is probably NOT Photoshopped (hicks wouldn't know how anyway ) However I can see that the picture was shot with a wide angle lens and that the boy is well behind the pig, he's not leaning on it as it might at first appear.

The effect of shooting a picture this way makes the hog look larger and the boy smaller due to the perspective created by the lens. This may not have been intentional but it is never the less the effect created. It's still one heck of a hot though.

 

[-Switch-]

What's with the massive green face Rebel?

 

[dtalbot]

Read about this on the Register. Boy shot it with a .50 pistol a number of times then trailed it for 3 hours. Meanwhile his father stood at the ready with a hunting rifle in case it attacked. Nicer if they had managed to give the pig a quicker death.

Yep, animal cruelty not hunting! A well place broadhead arrow from my mongolian bow would have done the job in one shot, the multiple shots and 3 hrs was just torturing the poor beast.Hope the spirits of all their quarry haunts them.

 

[Rebel]

What's with the massive green face Rebel?

Erm, what green face? I can't see one, just a hog and a kid in the woods.

 

[-Switch-]

That massive green face

 

[RobertRogers]

Is this the same "wild" pig that turned out to have been someone's pet? The story was faked as a wild pig...