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Beacool

(30,254 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 05:57 PM Feb 2014

Police Investigating Horrific Screams In Maine Find Happy Pig

Last edited Tue Feb 4, 2014, 09:46 PM - Edit history (1)

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.




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Police Investigating Horrific Screams In Maine Find Happy Pig (Original Post) Beacool Feb 2014 OP
Did they shoot it anyways lame54 Feb 2014 #1
The police deny everything ... JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2014 #2
Nahhhh, the lady probably offered them some home cured ham. Beacool Feb 2014 #5
OK jakeXT Feb 2014 #3
Thank you for the information. Beacool Feb 2014 #7
The local cops are probably still laughing over this! Brigid Feb 2014 #4
What the hell? Beacool Feb 2014 #6
If you listen closely . . . Brigid Feb 2014 #8
Just an ordinary news day in Maine magical thyme Feb 2014 #9
Yep, nothing to see here folks. Beacool Feb 2014 #10

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
3. OK
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 06:22 PM
Feb 2014

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

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
4. The local cops are probably still laughing over this!
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 06:35 PM
Feb 2014


Here's another funny encounter between cops and animals:


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