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What a Pig!
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1,980-Pound Pig May Have Been Biggest
Mon Feb 23, 7:51 AM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo!
BEIJING - Chinese officials figure a 1,980-pound pig that died from lack of exercise has a shot at being named the biggest pig ever. And they plan to apply for a listing in the Guinness Book of Records, the government's news agency said Monday.
The pig, which was 8 feet 3 inches long, is already the heaviest ever reported in China, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The beast had a girth of 7 feet, 3 inches and its tusks were 5 3/4 inches long when it died Feb. 5, the agency said. It cited the pig's keeper, Xu Changjin, a farmer in the northeastern province of Liaoning.
The pig lived to be 5 years old - considered long in China, where most pigs are slaughtered by age 3 - and was kept in a "nicely built sty," the report said.
But, "it had grown too big to move around," said Liu Mingyu, a professor at Liaoning University, who said it died from lack of exercise.
China's previous heaviest pig weighed in at 1,540 pounds, Liu said, in Xinhua's report.
Seriously, that is one big pig![:0]
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" - Ben Franklin
Mon Feb 23, 7:51 AM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo!
BEIJING - Chinese officials figure a 1,980-pound pig that died from lack of exercise has a shot at being named the biggest pig ever. And they plan to apply for a listing in the Guinness Book of Records, the government's news agency said Monday.
The pig, which was 8 feet 3 inches long, is already the heaviest ever reported in China, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The beast had a girth of 7 feet, 3 inches and its tusks were 5 3/4 inches long when it died Feb. 5, the agency said. It cited the pig's keeper, Xu Changjin, a farmer in the northeastern province of Liaoning.
The pig lived to be 5 years old - considered long in China, where most pigs are slaughtered by age 3 - and was kept in a "nicely built sty," the report said.
But, "it had grown too big to move around," said Liu Mingyu, a professor at Liaoning University, who said it died from lack of exercise.
China's previous heaviest pig weighed in at 1,540 pounds, Liu said, in Xinhua's report.
Seriously, that is one big pig![:0]
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" - Ben Franklin
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General TOOLS RRG
Don't go blaming the beer. Hank Hill
So much Ice, So much Beer. So little time. Shooter4
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now that I am grown, I just wish I could act like a child and get away with it.
Grab some DNA from this pig, and make clones (remember Dolly the sheep). Make lots of clones, 1000's of wild clones. Give them to our fine servicemen over in Afghanistan to let them loose.
Problem solved, the Afghani cant kill the pig, but the pig can do whatever it wants.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" - Ben Franklin
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Probably had to use a crane to move it.
The gene pool needs chlorine.
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