Will Posey
Retired User
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2006
- Location
- Knoxville, Tennessee
I'm gung to have ta shign off naw. i've opened the Mason jar bit too much tonight.
Somebody has to try to save you from yourself.
Will
The shapes are boulders. While the photographer probably placed the rifle on the body, I doubt he moved it from where it fell.
And yes, the free-ranging hog was not just a southern thing. In those days, it didn't make much sense to keep hogs penned up when there was plenty for them to eat in the nearby forests and you didn't have to feed them all summer. In the more remote areas, it was likely that not all were rounded up and those that weren't turned feral.
The hog is a strange animal; it doesn't stop growing until it dies -- often from its own excess weight. And no fence ever built can keep a grown hog in or out of anything it really wants; but all it really wants is food -- if it's eating well outside of your garden, it will stay out.
As Border mentioned, a hog, like a cat and few other animals, will go feral almost immediately when turned loose. Few animals are smarter than a hog.
Never tried wild boar. I hear it has a different flavor than domestic pork. Like venison in Georgia tastes nothing like venison in Texas. Depends on the primary food, I guess.
And trichinosis.
Am familiar with that spat, dvrmte. Looks like the photos were of the same rearranged body. However, moving a disembowelled body doesn't sound like something someone would care to do, no matter how dramatic the picture would be.
I hate it when that happens.Gardner was trying to put a story with the pictures and evidently ran short of bodies in the right place.
I hate it when that happens.
Being an amateur photographer, I do too... but I'm ashamed to admit it.Being married to a photographer, I understand completely.
Maybe someone started to move it, by dragging it by one of its hands.
Could well have been the hogs. The puzzling thing to me about this photo is that there appears to be a line of automobiles in the background.
Hogwash?
Will