There are hogs and then there are.....

[mneptune]

There are hogs and then there are MONSTER HOGS!!!

I came ascross this article from a story published in mid 2008, thought it was worth sharing.


Alabama boy gets death threats for hunting 1000 pound monster hog.



When a 1,000-pound wild hog was shot last year in Alabama, 11-year-old hunter Jamison Stone couldn’t have been happier. But his prize photos of the 9-foot-long boar have continued to cause a stink, one the Stone family can’t seem to shake.

The backlash has only grown worse, with one group calling for the hunters' prosecution. "It is unbelievable what my family has been through over the past year," Mike Stone, Jamison’s father, told the Birmingham News. "It has taken 10 years off my life."

An online petition has garnered more than 800 signatures from around the world demanding prosecution for what activists are calling animal cruelty, according to the newspaper.

Rhonda Roland Shearer, a New York City organizer who investigated the incident, said the pig suffered a "cruel and painful death," the result of 16 shots from a low-velocity weapon, nine of which hit the hog.

Shearer said that no charges are being pressed against the hunters, as the Alabama statute of limitations on animal cruelty has already elapsed.


Yet the Stone family is feeling the wrath of some critics.


"You should see some of the emails and hear some of the calls we have received," Jamison’s father said. "They are explicit. They tell how they are going to kill my son, like cutting his head off.

"It has had us scared to death ... All I did was to take my son on a legal hunting trip."

The prize pig, shot by Jamison Stone on an Alabama hunting preserve in May 2007, reportedly weighed 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet, 4 inches from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.


If the claims are accurate, Jamison's trophy boar would be bigger than the original “Hogzilla,” the legendary 800-pound, 8-foot-long wild hog killed in south Georgia in 2004.

[Uncle Buck]

The key word in that story: "activists". That explains the unruly outcries. Overzealous, misguided, bleeding-heart PeTA freaks.

[RhondaRShearer]

Please look at the objective reports about the so-called monster pig. The infamous photo is a fake and so was the "hunt."

See my reports that ran in my media ethics site StinkyJournalism.org and in ESPN

hogzilla, world's largest pig, monster pig hunt,

Alabama's Monster Pig Hoax, Hogzilla, pig kill , hunting, still being played out

Also, Kansas City Star newspaper says the photo is fake
‘Monster pig’ not really monstrous - Kansas City Star

The AP no longer sells the photo --they also told me the photo is "fake."

Here is my analysis of how it is faked.

HOG WASHED bigger than hogzilla Alabama boy bags 1051 pound wild hog monsterpig hog photo pigs monsterpig Stinky Journalism monster pig investigation debunks debunk AP and FOX News Giant Hog with Small Boy Photo foto photos photograph monster pig pho

I called the FBI offices in Alabama and the police authorities (including head of 911 system in Stone's area) who informed me that they never received any report from Mike Stone, the "hunter" and father of Jamison. If there were really death threats wouldn't a father report such calls to police authorities?

The "serious death threats" are as fake as the photo and the hunt itself--a viral marketing scheme intended to promote a canned hunting operation--modeled after the big success of "hogzilla" (the first famed big hog shot on a hunting preserve in Georgia).

The irony is: I am a hunter! And yet I am falsely accused of being an animal rights person. I live in NYC and have a deer head mount that my son shot hanging on my wall!

By the way the newspaper and FOX News who published the quoted article above did corrections of their errors about me and the case.
If you go to the articles you will see them. See for yourself...links

http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/sto...390.xml&coll=2

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,394344,00.html