More on the 1,000+lb hog just killed by boy

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3223521&page=1


Killing a 1,051-pound pig doesn't just guarantee you a lifetime's worth of breakfast sausage. It can net you a movie deal -- and some very harsh public criticism.
Eleven-year-old Jamison Stone of Alabama became the darling of a slow news cycle when over the Memorial Day weekend news agencies across the country published a photo of the apple-cheeked boy grinning over the gigantic carcass of a 10-foot boar.

The publicity prompted his father, Mike Stone, to create a Web site that features photos of the boy and his trophy, dubbed Monster Pig. It's also earned Jamison a bit part in an upcoming film "The Legend of Hogzilla," based on the tale of a superpig gunned down in Georgia in 2004.
With fame, however, comes criticism. The Stones have been accused of everything from doctoring photos to make the pig look bigger to unnecessarily torturing an animal.
"We've gotten a lot of negative e-mail," Mike Stone told ABCNEWS.com. "People have said they want to see my boy killed in a hunting accident and gutted like a pig."
In the negative comments section of their Web site, monsterpig.com, one angry visitor wrote: "Hurry up and enlist in the Army, I want to see you chased and shot at. And maybe beheaded on video for us to see. … I will laugh while eating my veggie burger."
Another anonymous e-mail reads: "If you ate that pig, I hope it was carrying some kind of disease. The world would be better off without people like you."
According to the 2000 census, some 1.7 million children between the ages of 6 and 15 years old hunt in the United States.
Nevertheless, the idea of an 11-year-old chasing a boar on a fenced-in hunting ground for three hours and shooting it nine times with a handgun has many asking questions about the ethics of letting children hunt.
It also brings into sharp relief different attitudes about hunting in different parts of the country.
PeTA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, gave Stone the Worst Dad in the Country Award "for not only teaching his son how to kill but also doing further harm by showing him how to make animals suffer."
"We look to parents to teach their kids empathy and compassion," said Daphna Nachminovitch, a PeTa spokeswoman. "This animal was not killed humanely; it was tortured. We oppose killing of animals for entertainment."

 

I crossposted the article & here is my reply from the other place:


Boogie, I agree with you. My dad would've never let me shoot something so many times over that long of a time. He would've handled it himself after the 2nd shot & probably reamed me a new one after making me shoot at a target for hours on end.

And did you catch this part?


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That answers my question on whether this hog was truly a wild boar or whether or not it was farm raised & allowed to get this big all for the purpose of hunting & killing one this size.

 

Hummm, wierd story. So there is a good chance this wasn't a wild hog?

 

Check out the AR nutjobs e-mails that they are sending to the kid. www.monsterpig.com

 

it's all a bunch of bullshit hype of a story. really it's riddled with stupidity from begining to end.


........and no i don't believe that hog was wild either. :rolleyes:

 

Those people are sick human beings...so, if someone hunts something, and eats it, that isn't good enough. they wish he gets sick off of it. They wanted him hunt down and decapitated. That is a bit extreme. What messed up people we have in this world...

I doubt it was a wild boar as well, but still those comments toward the boy are over the top, and not necessary.