Yoda Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 Story Community hog wild about story of 1,000-pound pig BY ELLIOTT MINOR Associated Press Writer ALAPAHA, Ga. -- Around these parts, they are calling it Hogzilla -- a 12-foot-long wild hog recently killed on a plantation and now quickly becoming a part of local legend. The plantation's owner said the hog weighed 1,000 pounds and had 9-inch tusks. Few people have actually seen the hog -- the only proof being a photo that shows the dead beast hanging from a rope. Whether the hog ever actually existed or is some sort of Faulknerian myth, it has definitely been the topic of conversation in small towns across southern Georgia. "People just back up and ask 'Is it real?' They can't believe that there's a hog that big in the woods," said Drew White, who has a copy of the photo on display at an auto parts store in Tifton, about 17 miles away. Chris Griffin said he killed the beast last month at the River Oak Plantation, where he is a hunting guide, and has been showing off the picture around this small farming community ever since. The hog is nearly twice as long as the 6-foot-tall Griffin. "They say 'Man, you look like a dwarf compared to that thing,"' he said. The picture is all Griffin has to back up his claims. He and Ken Holyoak, owner of the plantation, buried the beast on the property and did not want to hassle with slaughtering it since the meat of large feral hogs is typically not very good. Holyoak said he decided the hog's head also wasn't worth keeping because it was too large to mount on a wall. He said the head has the diameter of a tire on a compact car. "We had to lift him with a backhoe," he said. No one maintains official records on hog kills in Georgia. Department of Natural Resources biologist Kent Kammermeyer, who helped write a booklet on feral-hog problems in the state, said he has never heard of one as large as Hogzilla. Enough wild hogs roam Holyoak's plantation that he has made it a side business to allow people to hunt them, but he said "Hogzilla" was too big to let someone else shoot. "We killed it because we didn't want to take a chance of him getting away. Somebody else would have shot it," he said. 1,000 pounds? Holy Pig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 Turns out it was just my boss... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Prawn Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 Chris Griffin He never struck me as a killer 13 yr old, who knew? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EvilJester99 Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 I thought you were talking s*** about me...lol I'm 4'9 and 300 lbs...I'm as wide as I am tall hehe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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