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[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: none; border-radius: 0.3846em 0.3846em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]70-year-old Oregon farmer eaten by his hogs[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: none; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3846em 0.3846em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]On Wednesday morning, Terry V. Garner, a 70-year-old Oregon farmer, went to feed his animals. Several hours later, when he hadnt returned, a family member went to look for him and found, on the ground of the hog enclosure, his dentures.
Further investigation of the enclosure revealed that the hogs, which each weighed about 700 pounds, had eaten the farmer, leaving behind few uneaten body parts. Now the Coos County Sheriffs Office is investigating how Garner ended up in a position where the hogs were able to consume him. According to the Sheriff's statement:
There are several scenarios being investigated, including that Mr. Garner had a health event, such as a heart attack, which then put him in a position where the hogs could consume him. Another scenario being investigated is that given the age and health of Mr. Garner, that one or more of the hogs knocked Mr. Garner to the ground, whereupon that hogs killed and consumed him.
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This isnt the first time hogs have eaten their farmers.
Really, really, really terrible way to die. That carnivore thing cuts both ways, though. I sincerely hope he had a massive stroke/heart/aneurism or something that killed him before his knees started to buckle.
PB
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Better to be eaten by hungry hogs, say, than hungry cats.
That would be rough.
Or to be eaten by my new puppy, Millie:
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Pat Conroy once said his mother stated that all Southern Literature could be summed up in that one sentence.
Oddly enough, I prefer that type of gothic Southern Literature to Conroy's work.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)But now he seems to be writing the same book over and over again...
I know quirky southern family life is interesting, but only so many times.
John Irving is that kind of author as is Russo.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)With my high school juniors. We read "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "The Life You Save May Be Your Own." Teenagers -- even urban teenagers who have never set foot in the South -- seem to really love the genre. Southern Gothic is one of my secret weapons for reluctant readers. We'll finish up with "Rose for Emily" if there's time before the proficiency exams.
If there's one thing that lets me know I'm doing something right, it's this mini-unit. Having some tough-as-nails, inner-city gangbanger make a special trip to my classroom to inform me that "That Faulkner motherfucker was fuckin' awesome" might just be the entire reason I still teach school.
(Edited because autocorrect is atrocious)
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)and one of my favorite responses was "Man, Mr_____, white folks do some fucked-up shit!"
Yes, yes they do.
I know exactly what you mean.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Well, if not "queen," then at least "monarch." The baby would be weird
(Though one of the stories I mentioned was Faulkner, who was also pretty damned good)
dimbear
(6,271 posts)It's the slow ones that are a problem.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)to dispose of bodies. He owned a pig farm.
And in the movie Snatch by the gangster Bricktop.
Hope he was dead before they started in.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)and were finally tracked down using dna samples... really really creepy.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)"He went to take a shit and the hogs ate him"
As kids we always thought it was hilarious.
Doesn't sound quite as funny now.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)My parents used to say sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite.
Who knew what a bedbug was?
Now
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)pscot
(21,024 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)I'm not sure even a "B" director in Hollywood, could come up with a horror plot like this.
Itchinjim
(3,085 posts)a neighbor of theirs who went out one morning to feed the hogs, had a stroke or heart attack in the pig pen and ended up literally feed for the hogs. Domestic pigs can be very scary animals. Don't believe me? Get between a sow and her piglets and see if you survive five seconds.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)-..__...
(7,776 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)him to the hogs.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)undeterred
(34,658 posts)I thought it said "by his dogs" at first.