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Posted on 04/21/2009 10:02:07 AM PDT by Chet 99
ST. PETERSBURG — It was a hog, it was angry, and Cassandra Frank hadn't even had her morning coffee yet.
Just before 9 a.m. Monday, Frank saw the black swine grunting and shoveling its snout behind her family's yellow stucco home in the 2100 block of 23rd Avenue N.
The 200-pound sow came charging at her. Frank tried to get out of the way, but the hog barreled into her.
"It got me pretty good," said Frank, 26.
Its white tusks pierced the skin on her left calf, and its weight pushed her against a tree.
The wild hog stampeded on. Someone called 911.
A fire truck arrived. So did Animal Control. By then, the hog bolted up the street, cut across a grassy lot, went through some more back yards and doubled back on the dead-end street.
St. Petersburg Fire Rescue Lt. Dan Robinson had hunted wild hogs in North Florida as a boy. He tracked her 2-inch-wide hoof prints in the dirt.
Then she appeared. Nine men — Robinson, other rescue officials and animal control officers — had her cornered.
Robinson could see the hog was a mother. She charged again.
Robinson, a 15-year veteran, jumped over a 6-foot wood fence to get out of the way — cutting his forearm in the process.
"I seen what they can do. They'll take a dog and just rip it right open," said Robinson. "I'm outta here."
Finally, Animal Control officer Bill Warzybokl used a pole with a lasso to capture the hog. About 11 a.m., it was taken to a county facility, where it was killed by lethal injection.
Animal Control official Greg Andrews said the hog was euthanized because it had a broken leg and was in pain, and because its head had to be tested for rabies.
After the ordeal, Frank finally had her coffee. She received a tetanus shot and is recovering.
“Robinson could see the hog was a mother.”
Growing up on the farm, I could play with any of the livestock....*except* the farrowing sows.
Once the piglets were weaned and separated from Mom, I could play with them to my heart’s content.
Do NOT mess with a sow’s litter.....*ever*.
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I have not intention of messing with Chelsea.
OMG, Jeff.....that was just *cold*.
[roflmao]
LOL!
I didn't read a rebuttal in that response.
So what *is* the rebuttal for truth?....:)
When my kids were young we raised those guinea pigs. They can give a terrible bite. :O)
Was her name Michelle..
This test is just too hard. I boiled it down to 2, but I am not sure....
It’ll dress out to about 130 - 140 lbs or so.
Fire up the pit!
Ouch...I thought Mrs. O was the new Jackie Kennedy...at least that’s what the slurping so-called MSM say...
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