Weird News – It Happens

The little pig that could (or big pig in this case).  I think this was a death row request.   “I know I am going to the bacon plant but if I could just have a week to go swimming I could go with a clear snout”.  I say RIGHT ON MAN!

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An 800-pound hog that survived on its own for a week after a truck flipped while on its way to a slaughterhouse has surfaced in a swimming pool at a home near the crash site. LeAnn Baldy, whose house is only yards from Interstate 430, said Monday she noticed her pool was suddenly overflowing and then saw the immersed pig, which was having a drink in the pool.

About 90 hogs were in the trailer when it overturned where I-430 meets I-40, and about 60 survived. Officials said they thought the last of them had been caught.

Baldy said she found a farmer to take in the pig. A spokesman for Odom’s Tennessee Pride said it can’t use the hog in its sausage products because no one knows what the hog had been eating in its week on the lam.

Information from: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, http://www.arkansasonline.com