Tragedy in the Midwest - Pigs swim several miles across flood waters and reach safety - only to be shot by Des Moines cops

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KINGSTON, Iowa - Luck ran out for about a dozen pigs who escaped their flooded farm, swam through raging floodwaters and scrambled atop a sandbag levee in southeastern Iowa.

Des Moines County sheriff's officials shot the pigs Tuesday, not long after they reached the levee several miles from the nearest hog farm.

Officials said they killed the pigs over worries that they would weaken the levee.

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"Basically you cannot have something with a hoof walk on plastic and not poke a hole in the plastic and let water into it," said LeRoy Lippert, chairman of the county emergency management commission.

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"It happens every day. My gosh, that's what slaughterhouses do — that's how we get bacon and pork chops," Lippert said.

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The carcasses were left at the site and treated essentially as road kill, Lippert said. "You don't get them out of the mud and over the dike when you're worried about people and people's property," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080618/ap_on_...loods_shot_pigs

[mawilson 2,133]

Actual pigs or police officers?

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Actual pigs

[Amby 490]

awwwww poor piggy...let's eat them!

[Mrs. BB 0]

Mmmmmmmmmmmm........delicious piggy.

[Nagishkaw 510]

murderous swine!

[Jenn! 918]

Too. many. jokes. must. resist.