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Uncle Ernie 10-02-2012 18:32:43 64.38.158.32 Report to Moderator	My ol' man used to use that saying but this is the first time I ever heard of it actually happening! I do know hogs can be very mean and agressive. What a way to go. Uffda! News Link [Reply]   [No Email]
Ken Macfarlane 10-04-2012 11:44:14 142.166.168.2 Report to Moderator	Re: Fell in and the hogs ate him in reply to Uncle Ernie, 10-02-2012 18:32:43   2nd mainstream news article I've seen about it in the last year. Last one guy had a heart attack. In Canada every one is familiar with it because of the guy out by Vancouver, he'd fed something like 30 prostitutes to his pigs.   [Reply]  [No Email]
60 acre hillside 10-04-2012 05:24:52 67.142.170.26 Report to Moderator	Re: Fell in and the hogs ate him in reply to Uncle Ernie, 10-02-2012 18:32:43   I have heard this saying since childhood. I know it sounds too gross for many but has been known that it is dangerous for a country man to relieve himself "Out at the barn" if hogs are around. the complete saying is he went to_____ and the hogs ate him.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Pitalplace 10-03-2012 08:58:48 76.79.0.234 Report to Moderator	Re: Fell in and the hogs ate him in reply to JRSutton, 10-02-2012 18:32:43   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see Right after high school I worked at a sale barn. After the hog sale the large boars were penned then run into a squeeze gate. We then broke off the tusks so they could be shipped on the trucks together without eating each other. After the tusks were removed myself and another guy would ride them out of the gate. Usually for a very short time and it didn't take long to go from the ground to the ring fence.   [Reply]  [No Email]
jackinok 10-03-2012 09:20:39 162.58.82.136 Report to Moderator	Re: Fell in and the hogs ate him in reply to Pitalplace, 10-03-2012 08:58:48   it always amazed me that someone could get those crazy things to the sale barn at all! couldnt do it nowdays, but what they would do was they had a club weighted with lead. if an individual bought one and wanted it detusked/toothed (whatever you call it) they would run it down a narrow chute, hit him between the eyes and either knock it out or stun it then cut the tusks off with bolt cutters.Supposedly that tamed them down some if they didnt have tusks(yea right).nearly all the really mean ones went straight into wilsons packing plant that was right accross the road.they would run a chute accross the road and run them straight,into the kill floor.several times two old hogs would go through the board pens and go after each other,what a bloody fight that was, and you couldnt do much but stand and watch.like i say i never was around them much,since we didnt raise them, but i dont know how you could keep them as mean as those were.of course that may have been why they were at the sale barn, simply because they had got so mean you couldnt keep them.   [Reply]  [No Email]
jackinok 10-03-2012 08:40:48 162.58.82.136 Report to Moderator	Re: Fell in and the hogs ate him in reply to Uncle Ernie, 10-02-2012 18:32:43   back 50 years or so ago when i worked at the stock yards a lot of folks around here still free ranged hogs.I hated working the hog sale ring, some of those things were crazy mean. i never was around hogs much, but those sure made a believer out of me.only time i ever came close to getting cut by one i had on a brand new pair of cowboy boots,they opened the gate and a old boar about 500 lbs came in there in a dead run,snapping his jaws, slobbering and foaming at the mouth. i hit the fence but not fast enough.stinking thing ripped the boot right off my foot and proceeded to rip it to pieces. i have no problem believing one would eat a person given the chance.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Hogleg 10-03-2012 06:33:20 38.104.162.74 Report to Moderator	Re: Fell in and the hogs ate him in reply to Uncle Ernie, 10-02-2012 18:32:43   Old Cowboy Sign in Lonesome Dove We Don't Rent Pigs The popular opinion is this was invented by McMurtry which I thing is not quite correct. I was told at a cowboy shoot that it was a sign to discourage a popular way to dispose of a body back in the day. Saw it on Deadwood (HBO series) also. Pay a pig owner a few bucks rent, drop the body, and a few hours later all of the evidence is gone. Renting Pigs... FWIW Hogleg   [Reply]  [No Email]
JDseller 10-02-2012 22:11:02 208.126.196.144 Report to Moderator	Re: Fell in and the hogs ate him in reply to Uncle Ernie, 10-02-2012 18:32:43   Happened here over at Bankston, Iowa about thirty years ago. Guy was feeding hogs on an outside concrete slap in the winter. He fell and hit his head. The hogs eat everything but the larger bones. He was only gone for about an hour before he was missed. When a group of hogs get the smell of blood they can get real stirred up.   [Reply]  [No Email]
JMS./MN 10-02-2012 21:31:34 209.237.125.241 Report to Moderator	Re: Fell in and the hogs ate him in reply to Uncle Ernie, 10-02-2012 18:32:43   I bought a corn picker from a guy in north central MN in '72- same thing happened to a neighbor of his. He was surprised I hadn't heard of it. BTW- the other stories in the sidebar of that article are quite 'unique'.   [Reply]  [No Email]