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Monster Pig
Monster Pig (or Pigzilla) was the subject of a controversial 2007 story that initially ran in the news media as a report (and a series of accompanying photographs) of an eleven-year-old boy shooting a giant feral pig. The pig was claimed to have been shot during a hunt on May 3, 2007 by an eleven-year-old boy named Jamison Stone. The location of the shooting was the Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve outside Anniston, Alabama, USA. According to the hunters (there were no independent witnesses), the pig weighed and measured in length.
The story quickly ran into veracity problems with news organizations backing off on their coverage when inconsistencies in the story were revealed, including NBC, who canceled their interview with the Stone family when they suspected the story was a hoax.〔(stinkyjournalism.org - HOG WASHED!, Stinky Journalism investigation debunks AP and FOX News: “Giant Hog with Small Boy" Photo, May 29, 2007 )〕 It was pointed out right away that the photographs of the pig released to the media seemed to be purposely posed and doctored to exaggerate scale. It was later also revealed that the "giant feral hog" was actually a large domestic farm-raised pig named "Fred" that had been purchased by the hunting preserve's owner four days before the hunt in an apparent publicity stunt. There was a 2008 grand jury investigation of the event based on charges of animal cruelty that was later canceled.
== Claim ==
The story, as told by the Stones to the news media, was that on May 3, 2007 11-year-old Jamison Stone was hunting a huge feral hog with his father Mike Stone along with Keith O’Neal and Charles Williams, owners of Southeastern Trophy Hunters, on a farm outside of Ashton, Alabama. Jamison told the media they were invited there by a "friend" who told them about a "big hog he had that was tearing up land".〔(foxnews.com, Alabama Boy That Killed Monster Hog Speaks Out About Slay, Published May 31, 2007, FOXNews )〕 The Stones and the other hunters tracked/chased the hog through the woods and over 3 hours and Jamison Stone fired 16 shots with a .50- caliber Smith & Wesson Model 500〔(Hog heaven: Taxidermist confirms monster pig )〕 revolver equipped with red dot sight〔Enlarged image shows some sort of red dot sight (projection assembly to the rear of the sight)(Stinky Journalism, Stinky Journalism investigation debunks AP and FOX News: “Giant Hog with Small Boy" Photo , 2007-06-06 )〕 shooting 350-grain Hornady cartridges, hitting it 9 times before he killed it with a head shot. They hauled the pig by truck to the Clay County Farmers Exchange in Lineville where they used a scale, finding out it weighed .〔(Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than 'Hogzilla' May 25 03:21 PM US/Eastern By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press Writer )〕 The hunters also claimed that the pig was in length from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. However, this has not been corroborated by any source.
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