Saturday, June 17, 2006

The Deep South has some mental disease

Hog Dog Fighting: Bloodsport Packaged as Family Entertainment

If you're like most parents planning a weekend outing for your family, you might take your children camping, to an amusement park or a baseball game.
Not so for many parents in rural Louisiana. Or Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, and a handful of other states where feral pigs roam.


A weekend highlight for some families in these areas is the so-called "hog dog rodeo." If you miss the homemade tin signs—"Hog Dog Rodeo Tonight! Turn here"—posted on trees along dirt roads, you can still find one of these events. Just listen for the squeals of terror and pain from the pigs and cheers from the audience of parents and children.


More on
Hog Dog Fighting
from the Humane Society website.

More evidence that our deep red South has some serious disorder going on.

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