May 28, 2007

• BONK!
• Better luck next time, boars.
• I'm bored
• "It feels really good," Jamison said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big." With the animal finally dead in a creek bed on the 2,500-acre Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve in Delta, trees had to be cut down and a backhoe brought in to bring Jamison's prize out of the woods. That's what hunting is all about, connecting with nature.
• I don't know what's more amazing: the way this eleven year old has been brought up with a killer's instinct to chase down this pig with a pistol and finish it off point blank, or the sheer size of the beast. Clearly the size of the beast, given that it was not much better than a canned hunt, was a sloppy kill, and the kid was backed up by a small squad of rifle-bearing grownups ready to ready to send that pig a Rambo-gram if it so much as snorted ominously in his direction. Not to steal his thunder, but this was a privileged kid who was handed a big kill on a silver platter.
• So... can we consider this a 'gateway' kill?
• Naw, I think the deer he bagged at 5 was the gateway.
• (mct, I was sorta referring to his upbringing, rather than his 'nads.)
• Thank God the kid was able to finally finish the thing off at point blank range after shooting it eight times. Otherwise, it would not be long before the top of the album charts was ruled by rapper Monster Pig.
• (ah, gotcha, misread that.)
• meh. i kilt me a bar when i was only three.
• PatB ain't much for faincy book larnin'.
• In an article about another swine, Snopes says: "Darrell Anderson, CEO of the Lafayette, Ind.-based National Swine Registry, said farm-raised hogs grow as large as 1,300 pounds and measure as long as 7 feet along the backbone from head to tail. "If you hang them by their hind legs and you have the front legs stretching out, you'll get another four or five feet," he said. A hog that size would probably be 5 years old, he said. The animals will grow tusks in the wild. Domesticated, their tusks are trimmed because they are dangerous." I know nothing about canned hunts, but I wonder if food is made available to the animals to make 'em more of a trophy. If so, this fellow was neither King Of The Hogs nor some kind of mutant. He was just a big ol' pig. An impressively big ol' pig.
• uh... I meant "Sacred And Legendary King Of The Hogs" It's important to get titles right.
• From the family's website: Warning!!! Your Negative e-mails may be posted and some of you will be Prayed for. Heh.
• The lad himself was a bit lardy, verging on fat cunt territory. Lovely.
• A pig once bit my mum so I'm inclined to be less outraged than I probably should be.
• On the family website, Jamison's dad says: Many of you have called this story the second shot heard around the world WTF? Children are going to rise up against the evil boargeousie and create a dictatorship of the prepubescentariat?
• A boar? Pff. Watch closely, everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god.
• I admire their effort to "redact" profanity from the negative comments! Quite effective I do say! Why, what's that I see when I highlight the text? For shame!!
• I'm pro-fanity myself.
• I kind of like Colmes.
• How about a nice BBQ pork sammich? With a side helping of profanity slaw.
• Hoax!
• I was waiting for that. But where are the pictures? The text kind of depends on them... this hoaxing is a hoax!
• I saw pictures.
• Me too.
• I call hoax on Insolent Chimps hoaxed hoax.
• You couldn't hoax your own mother on the hoaxingest day of the year with an electrified hoaxing machine.
• Ha! You couldn't hoax a 'ho with an ax! So there.
• Now cnn is reporting that the pig was farm-raised and sold to the owner of the fenced in property a short time before it was shot. Now this makes the story look more like the story of my life being summarized, as follows: "Man eats dozens of pigs and cows!"