600-pound pig escapes from NH farm, tries to go vote

[kpete]

Call it the “Pelham primary pig.”

A 600-pound sow sauntered toward a polling place in the town of Pelham, N.H., Tuesday morning as voters turned out to cast their ballots in the New Hampshire primary.


“There was a hub-bub outside, and when I looked, there was this huge pig walking around in the parking lot,” said Matthew Reiter, 50, who was working a construction job at the high school where voting was taking place. “It caused a bit of a stir.”

At first, Reiter said, he thought the pig’s presence was part of a gag, given the escapades that have led up to the primaries. Or maybe, he thought, its owner was inside, exercising his or her constitutional right to vote

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/09/wayward-pig-shows-new-hampshire-polling-place/chwdyHFkMG4SlBmsjYoOjO/story.html

[Lifelong Protester]

1. Ok, smiling and laughing

that there is funny.

[valerief]

2. I remember a few years ago when I worked in Merrimack and lived in Mass--

I was driving home and on a busy, undeveloped street, there was a YOOGE pig trotting along by the side of the road. I've had deer and foxes run out in front of me, but I never drove by a pig before!!!!

[alittlelark]

3. Must have been a Trump voter.....

......but then I hear pigs are smart, so who knows?

[Initech]

4. I thought it was Chris Christie.

[Glamrock]

8. Damnit! You beat me to it!

[roamer65]

9. LMAO.

I shouldn't be but I am.

[begin_within]

5. They should have let him vote on a provisional ballot

then let the vote count if it didn't eat the ballot

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Isn't he only allowed to vote in New Jersey? nt

[Blueguyinthesky]

7. I wonder if the pig deterred anybody from voting