70-year-old Oregon farmer eaten by his hogs

[Poll_Blind]

[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: none; border-radius: 0.3846em 0.3846em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]70-year-old Oregon farmer eaten by his hogs[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: none; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3846em 0.3846em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]On Wednesday morning, Terry V. Garner, a 70-year-old Oregon farmer, went to feed his animals. Several hours later, when he hadn’t returned, a family member went to look for him and found, on the ground of the hog enclosure, his dentures.

Further investigation of the enclosure revealed that the hogs, which each weighed about 700 pounds, had eaten the farmer, leaving behind few uneaten body parts. Now the Coos County Sheriff’s Office is investigating how Garner “ended up in a position where the hogs were able to consume him.” According to the Sheriff's statement:

There are several scenarios being investigated, including that Mr. Garner had a health event, such as a heart attack, which then put him in a position where the hogs could consume him. Another scenario being investigated is that given the age and health of Mr. Garner, that one or more of the hogs knocked Mr. Garner to the ground, whereupon that hogs killed and consumed him.

--snip--

This isn’t the first time hogs have eaten their farmers.

Really, really, really terrible way to die. That carnivore thing cuts both ways, though. I sincerely hope he had a massive stroke/heart/aneurism or something that killed him before his knees started to buckle.

PB

[NYC_SKP]

1. That's just horrid! I hope he went quickly. Ewww.

Better to be eaten by hungry hogs, say, than hungry cats.

That would be rough.

Or to be eaten by my new puppy, Millie:

[Tom Ripley]

2. 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister"...

Pat Conroy once said his mother stated that all Southern Literature could be summed up in that one sentence.
Oddly enough, I prefer that type of gothic Southern Literature to Conroy's work.

[WCGreen]

5. I liked Conroy...

But now he seems to be writing the same book over and over again...

I know quirky southern family life is interesting, but only so many times.

John Irving is that kind of author as is Russo.

[Tom Ripley]

19. I definitely agree with you about all three of those authors.

[Nevernose]

15. I'm actually beginning a Flannery O'Connor mini-unit tomorrow

With my high school juniors. We read "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "The Life You Save May Be Your Own." Teenagers -- even urban teenagers who have never set foot in the South -- seem to really love the genre. Southern Gothic is one of my secret weapons for reluctant readers. We'll finish up with "Rose for Emily" if there's time before the proficiency exams.

If there's one thing that lets me know I'm doing something right, it's this mini-unit. Having some tough-as-nails, inner-city gangbanger make a special trip to my classroom to inform me that "That Faulkner motherfucker was fuckin' awesome" might just be the entire reason I still teach school.

(Edited because autocorrect is atrocious)

[Tom Ripley]

16. I taught those same two stories to urban high school juniors...

and one of my favorite responses was "Man, Mr_____, white folks do some fucked-up shit!"
Yes, yes they do.
I know exactly what you mean.

[WCGreen]

21. The absolute Queen of the Short Story form...

[Nevernose]

23. Her and, oddly, Stephen King

Well, if not "queen," then at least "monarch." The baby would be weird

(Though one of the stories I mentioned was Faulkner, who was also pretty damned good)

[dimbear]

3. Any way of dying that only lasts a few minutes is a luxury.

It's the slow ones that are a problem.

[maxsolomon]

4. This was the method used by the serial killer in Port Coquitlam, BC

to dispose of bodies. He owned a pig farm.

And in the movie Snatch by the gangster Bricktop.

Hope he was dead before they started in.

[undeterred]

26. Those were the female prostitutes that disappeared

and were finally tracked down using dna samples... really really creepy.

[tularetom]

6. My grandfather had an expression when you asked where somebody was

"He went to take a shit and the hogs ate him"

As kids we always thought it was hilarious.

Doesn't sound quite as funny now.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

20. Everything old is new again.

My parents used to say sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite.

Who knew what a bedbug was?

Now

[GoneOffShore]

7. We do we eat animals? Because they would eat us if they could.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

8. Yikes! There are just some things I don't want to know.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. pic of large hogs

[pscot]

10. Good thing he's standing up

[SoapBox]

11. wow...this just, weird.

I'm not sure even a "B" director in Hollywood, could come up with a horror plot like this.

[Itchinjim]

12. My late mother grew up on a farm in Clinton county, Iowa and she mentioned a few times about

a neighbor of theirs who went out one morning to feed the hogs, had a stroke or heart attack in the pig pen and ended up literally feed for the hogs. Domestic pigs can be very scary animals. Don't believe me? Get between a sow and her piglets and see if you survive five seconds.

[hootinholler]

13. Didn't he watch Deadwood?

[-..__...]

14. Be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm.

And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

[geardaddy]

18. Yep, my first thought.

[HiPointDem]

17. hard to believe they'd eat him while he was alive & feeding them. maybe the family killed him & fed

him to the hogs.

[WI_DEM]

22. they ate his head, too?

[sarcasmo]

24. Reminds me of Wu in Deadwood.

[undeterred]

25. Oh, thank God.

I thought it said "by his dogs" at first.