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Farmer eaten by his own hogs
Authorities in Oregon are investigating how a hog farmer was eaten by his animals.
The remains of Terry Vance Garner, 70, were found in his hog enclosure Wednesday, according to local news reports Monday.
The farmer had gone to feed the hogs, some weighing as much as 700 pounds, about 7:30 a.m., according to a report from CNN affiliate KMTR. After Garner was not seen for several hours, a family member went to check on him and found his dentures in the hog pen. Other remains were found, but the hogs had eaten most of the farmer, according to the report.
The sheriff's department is looking into the death.
"Due to the unusual circumstances, the Sheriff's Office is investigating to determine if foul play may have resulted in the death of Mr. Garner," Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier told CNN affiliate KVAL.
“For all we know, it was a horrific accident, but it’s so doggone weird that we have to look at all possibilities,” the Eugene Register-Guard quoted Frasier as saying.
Garner could have suffered a heart attack and fallen in the pen, or the hogs could have knocked him off his feet and then eaten him, Frasier told the newspaper.
The state of the remains made determining a cause of death difficult, according to the news reports. They had been sent to the University of Oregon and examined by a forensic anthropologist, the report said.
The farmer's brother, Michael Garner, told the Register-Guard that one of the sows had bitten the farmer last year after he accidentally stepped on a piglet.
“He said he was going to kill it, but when I asked him about it later, he said he had changed his mind,” Garner said.
Garner told the Register-Guard his brother was a Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. The farm was "a life-saver," he said.
“Those animals were his life,” Garner told the Register-Guard.
They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
He shouldn't have been raising pigs to be murdered. This is what happens to murderers. Hopefully more of the farm animals will wise up like these pigs!
harsh, but kind of true.
Take the hogs out of there and send them swimming in the lake via a catapult. Blub,blub blub.They are tainted and will kill again and no human can consume them due their eating a human being. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you! My condolences to the family, This should never have happened. he should have put down the sow that bit him.
He shouldn't have been raising pigs to be murdered. This is what happens to murderers. Hopefully more of the farm animals will wise up like these pigs!!
haahaaa..bacon got its revenge yuckers!
He shouldn't have been raising pigs to be murdered. This is what happens to murderers. Hopefully more of the farm animals will wise up like these pigs!!!!
That guy must have really been a ham!
You really aren't clever or funny. AT ALL.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm BACON!
He should not have been raising pigs to be murdered. This is what happens to murderers. Hopefully more of the farm animals will wise up like these pigs!!!!
You're a murderer or peace of mind. Shut up. Eating meat is a natural way of life.
Weird? They are known to do that. Pigs will eat anything, just like Humans and bears.
Somethings not right with this piece someone wrote? People wrote how they thought and what they knew for anyones info, questionable news or no.
Damn I was sure this was gonna be about George W.
They ate him? Why? He did not deserve that? Now here's the question: will we eat them? Cause I don't want that pack of bacon if so....
Almost happened to Dorthy before she went over the rainbow man
So, the Cowardly Lion had good reason to be afraid after rescuing Dorothy...