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CHINA, Maine (AP) Police responding to reports of screaming coming from a home in Maine didn't find a victim of domestic violence as they feared. Instead, they found an amorous pig.
State police say a woman called last week after hearing what she believed to be a fight coming from a neighbor's home in the town of China. The caller said she heard screaming and thought there was a domestic assault.
The Morning Sentinel reports that four state troopers responded and talked to the neighbor.
The neighbor explained that she raises pigs and the screaming was coming from an overjoyed male pig that had been placed in a pen with five sows in heat.
Police say there was no assault and no disturbance "other than the screaming male pig."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/04/maine-police-screams-happy-pig_n_4722461.html
That sounds like one happy pig. Although, I would like to hear the sows' version of the story.
lame54
(35,345 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,382 posts)... including the odor of bacon frying at the police station...
Beacool
(30,254 posts)Pigs rule.
The name of the town was chosen by Japheth Washburn. He wanted to call the town Bloomville, but people from the town of Bloomfield objected, saying that the similarity of names could cause confusion. Mr. Washburn settled on the name China, because it was the name of one of his favorite hymns. This widely sung hymn was written by Timothy Swan of Northfield Massachusetts in 1790 and was published in Swan's "New England Harmony" in 1801.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China,_Maine
Beacool
(30,254 posts)We got some book learned people on DU.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Here's another funny encounter between cops and animals:
Beacool
(30,254 posts)Yeah, those kitties look really scary...........
Brigid
(17,621 posts)You can hear the cops chuckling.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Beacool
(30,254 posts)Just a pig making bacon.