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  • Tall Tales and the Unlarded Truth About Hogzilla

    03/19/2005 3:03:48 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 38 replies · 3,080+ views
    NY Times ^ | March 19, 2005 | SHAILA DEWAN
    River Oaks Plantation via The Associated Press Christopher Griffin posed with the huge hog dubbed "Hogzilla" that he killed on the River Oaks Plantation in 2004. ALAPAHA, Ga., March 17 - Few episodes in this modern age have drawn the Southern talent for tall tales like the legend of Hogzilla, the alleged 12-foot, 1,000-pound wild hog shot and killed on a South Georgia farm last June. Documented by only a single photograph before the carcass was buried, Hogzilla drew television crews from as far away as Japan and appeared on the cover of Weekly World News. The pig became the...