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- 2 October 2012, 21:53
Investigation After Farmer Eaten By His Pigs
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US officials are trying to determine how a farmer came to be eaten by his own herd of pigs.
Terry Garner, 70, set out to feed his animals on his farm in Coos County in Oregon, but never returned.
A family member found Mr Garner's dentures and pieces of his body in the pig enclosure several hours later, but most of his remains had been consumed.
District Attorney Paul Frasier said several of the animals weighed 318kg (700lbs) or more.
Mr Frasier said Mr Garner may have had a medical emergency, such as a heart attack, or was knocked over by the animals, and was then killed and eaten.
He pointed out that at least one of the animals had previously bitten Mr Garner.
But the possibility of foul play is being investigated as well.
"For all we know, it was a horrific accident, but it's so doggone weird that we have to look at all possibilities," Mr Frasier told local paper The Register-Guard.
A pathologist was unable to identify a cause or manner of death, the newspaper reported. The remains will be examined by a forensic anthropologist at the University of Oregon.
Mr Garner was a "good-hearted guy" who cared for several huge adult sows and a boar named Teddy, said his 75-year-old brother Michael.
He added: "Those animals were his life. He had all kinds of birds and turkeys that ran all over the place. Everybody knew him."
Michael Garner said one of the large sows bit his brother last year when he accidentally stepped on a piglet.
"He said he was going to kill it but when I asked him about it later he said he had changed his mind," the brother said.
Most pigs are raised until they reach a market weight of between 113kg (250lbs) and 136kg (300lbs), while breeding sows rarely weigh more than 181kg (400lbs).
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what do you think?
Windows Live User
6:10am on 2/10/2012
Eat owt pigs will
Debbie Wiseman
6:31am on 2/10/2012
OMG
Bazil Brush
6:42am on 2/10/2012
they are greedy
ffreem200
7:01am on 2/10/2012
This is just sheer piggery. Greedy pigs
stevie may
7:55am on 2/10/2012
Mr Porkys revenge
Pav Stokie Pawlowsk
8:11am on 2/10/2012
Foul
angie_sorensen
8:13am on 2/10/2012
Its probably how he wanted to go by the sounds of it,he did love them pigs!
Steve Barker
8:29am on 2/10/2012
Eaten alive by a bacon butty, now there's an idea for a horror movie.....
simon calvert
8:36am on 2/10/2012
Officers investigating have been ham fisted in their approach to this case. After scratching around for evidence initially they found nothing, however some officers have now been given the chop which has let then with a sower taste. The search is now bac on.
simon calvert
8:39am on 2/10/2012
Sorry about the poork quality humour it may have been a little irashernal.
Jasmin Louise
8:53am on 2/10/2012
Ha! Class :)
Louise Smith
12:23pm on 2/10/2012
Well Simon, if your comments "dont take the bacon" nothing will!!!!!!!!
simon calvert
12:42pm on 2/10/2012
Are you rinding me up....? :-)
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1:11pm on 2/10/2012
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eastonandrea
4:25pm on 2/10/2012
LOL
Richard Earl
8:09am on 3/10/2012
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chris
11:09am on 3/10/2012
'Porcine' humour...
chris
11:10am on 3/10/2012
not in the best of taste...
stevie may
8:38am on 2/10/2012
Some of his pigs weighed 700lbs? That's some porker. . . Only way to eat that: spit roasted over hot coals for 10 hours, perpetually basted with lashings of honey and apple sauce till the crackling turns golden. To be served with mead and cider and no cutlery. . . Medieval style. And all the pigs blood should be mixed with port and served hot on cold winter mornings. . . They knew how to eat in the Middle Ages
stevie may
9:08am on 2/10/2012
If you were rich of course! Was no honey or roast pig for the peasants. . . Well, not unless they stole it and escaped to the greenwood
Jeem Bob
12:51pm on 2/10/2012
Are you feeling alright?
Michael Dynes
2:37pm on 2/10/2012
Yes you bet he is!! He is never anything but alright. I'm 100% hetro, but I love Stevie May to bits. He is one of my forum heroes. I am a Thomas Hardy fan so I love his rustic descriptive language and his Pagan ideals.
eastonandrea
4:24pm on 2/10/2012
Nothing wrong with knowing your foodie history, i love watching programs on foodie and farming history like Victorian farm, edwardian farm etc they cover everything from farming, food, the way they lived. So sorry i'm not sorry to admit above - proud! :-)
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9:22am on 2/10/2012
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Andrea Hill
4:24pm on 2/10/2012
you are nuts!!!
eastonandrea
4:29pm on 2/10/2012
What!!!!!
davethedalek
5:28am on 3/10/2012
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11:15am on 3/10/2012
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johnnydee23
12:44pm on 3/10/2012
2000 pigs and this from a man who preached About all gods creatures being equal! Religion Who needs the devil with gods son acting like That
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9:32am on 2/10/2012
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Stuart Harley
10:48am on 2/10/2012
PIGS EAT ANYTHING.................
eastonandrea
4:28pm on 2/10/2012
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you, but this is extreme! How can the brother come to terms with the death of his brother with so little left and by their beloved piggies?.
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8:22am on 3/10/2012
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michael crane
8:28am on 3/10/2012
it`s well known that criminal use pigs to dispose of bodies, the only thing that the pigs leave are the teeth
stewgwyn
8:29am on 3/10/2012
''The possibility of foul play is being investigated''. What ???? Is someone saying that the pigs plotted this ? I know pigs are intelligent, but come on !
simon calvert
9:11am on 3/10/2012
I think they might be implying the chickens and Turkeys might have been in on it...
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9:13am on 3/10/2012
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stewgwyn
10:10am on 3/10/2012
I never thought of that, Simon, and come to think o