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When Pigs Fly At The Royal Melbourne Show (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post   First Posted: 11/20/09 05:12 AM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 03:05 PM ET

Who knew pigs could fly? Check out these pork-bellied tricksters as they soar through the air at the annual Royal Melbourne Show in Australia. Vote for your favorite image!


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12:59 PM on 09/22/2009
I remember a carnival here in the USA where a man forced donkeys to dive off a platform into a huge vat of water, animal welfare groups forced it to shutdown.
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12:36 AM on 09/26/2009
spoilsports...
03:03 AM on 09/22/2009
Two words:
Animal abuse.
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05:02 PM on 09/22/2009
Two more:
Lighten up.
01:26 AM on 09/22/2009
This is sooo cruel...
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Trickywoo
Your friendly curmudgeon.
06:31 PM on 09/21/2009
The pigs aren't flying--they're diving. It's the diving competition, where they land in a big pool. There's also a pig race at the same show. Royal Melbourne Show has run this event for 9 years, according to various sources found by "the google." These pigs compete only once, there being no returning champions since they've been slaughtered by the time the show rolls around again a year later. All the news stories and blogs I could find imply that the animals are having a rollicking good time.

But I don't think so.
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PatA
Pink is a 4 letter word
04:32 PM on 09/21/2009
I suppose you would be happy if someone carried you in a crate up a diving board ladder, opened the crate door and the only place you had to go was down, down, down?
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Thomas Murphy
Lives in Seattle, Washington.
03:39 PM on 09/21/2009
Uh....how about some serious energy/green news, instead of infantile stuff like flying pigs, for God's sake? And people think that the Wall Street Journal has changed since Murdoch took over....it's even happening to the Post. You won't get new fans if you don't post serious news.
08:25 AM on 09/21/2009
Hey Sarah P.!!!
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07:42 AM on 09/21/2009
They are very cute..and pigs are smart and clean. We probably should not eat them.
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04:59 PM on 09/22/2009
Unfortunately (for the pigs) they are also delicious!
03:06 AM on 09/21/2009
So all of these people on the other side of the world, who have no idea how the pigs are treated, feel fit to comment on something they don't understand. Nothing like going off uninformed.

Just because your animals in the US are treated badly does not mean they are so here. Our animal authorities are very strict in Australia, and trust that they would not let this go on without the animals being treated humanely.
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DebbyM
10:19 PM on 09/21/2009
Yes Australia treats its animals so well and that is why the sheep are castrated, have their tails cut off and endure mulesing all without anasthetic and then ultimately are shipped overseas to the Middle East where if they don't die during transport from a lack of food and water and from disease, they get brutally treated and slaughtered at the other end. Yes indeedy, Australia treats its animals so well.
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05:01 PM on 09/22/2009
Not to press the point, but sheep are castrated and have their tails cut off without anasthesia here too.
12:57 PM on 09/22/2009
tell us about the massive Kangaroo slaughters where many are wounded and left to die.

humans are the same everywhere when it comes to the treatment of animals.
02:01 AM on 09/21/2009
"SOME PIG!"
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fedupinfla
In a kennel full of dogs, I bark the loudest
01:57 AM on 09/21/2009
Reminds me of that joke...

"They always said that the day a black man became POTUS was the day pigs fly..."

Well, since Obama became POTUS....swine flu.....
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Cinnamonape
12:28 AM on 09/22/2009
Or Swine Flew ;-)
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01:49 AM on 09/21/2009
I'm assuming they have a soft landing of course .....
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KIVPossum
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01:43 AM on 09/21/2009
Seems to me hard landings could affect the quality of the hams.
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SharonaMonk
01:16 AM on 09/21/2009
Baby's laugh when they are tossed. Maybe pigs LIKE being tossed!
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SFTor
12:41 AM on 09/21/2009
I have actually bothered to read through this thread, and can only comment that this is a particularly humorless bunch of HPers. Go suck on a carrot.