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Pigs Survive Floods, Still Buy the Farm

Posted Jun 19, 08 12:00 PM CDT in US 

(Newser) – They managed to survive torrential rains and swam mightily through rising water, but a clutch of feisty midwestern pigs couldn't dodge a sheriff's bullet. At least a dozen porkers were shot dead this week as they scrambled on Iowa levees. "My gosh, it happens every day," snapped a town official who said the pigs were killed to protect the levees. "That's how we get bacon and pork chops."

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A pig who somehow floated or swam several miles from the flooded hog barns near Oakville, Iowa, rests on the Mississippi River side of a sandbagged levee near Kingston, Iowa, Tuesday, June 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
A pig who somehow floated or swam several miles from the flooded hog barns near Oakville, Iowa, attempts to crawl over the levee from the Mississippi River side of a sandbagged levee near Kingston, Iowa,...   (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
A pig who somehow floated or swam several miles from the flooded hog barns near Oakville, Iowa, walks on a portion of the levee to a sandbagged portion of levee near Kingston, Iowa, Tuesday, June 17,...   (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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