When Pigs Fly At The Royal Melbourne Show (PHOTOS)

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First Posted: 09-20-09 10:39 AM   |   Updated: 09-20-09 07:52 PM

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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- dayala I'm a Fan of dayala 18 fans permalink

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:59 PM on 09/22/2009

spoilsport­s...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:36 AM on 09/26/2009
- Alarmist I'm a Fan of Alarmist 13 fans permalink
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Two words:
Animal abuse.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:03 AM on 09/22/2009

Two more:
Lighten up.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:02 PM on 09/22/2009
- Pettit I'm a Fan of Pettit 2 fans permalink

This is sooo cruel...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:26 AM on 09/22/2009
- Trickywoo I'm a Fan of Trickywoo 8 fans permalink
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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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:31 PM on 09/21/2009
- PatA I'm a Fan of PatA 49 fans permalink
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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?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:32 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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:39 PM on 09/21/2009
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Hey Sarah P.!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:25 AM on 09/21/2009
- Ramus I'm a Fan of Ramus 27 fans permalink

They are very cute..and pigs are smart and clean. We probably should not eat them.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:42 AM on 09/21/2009

Unfortunately (for the pigs) they are also delicious!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:59 PM on 09/22/2009

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:06 AM 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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:19 PM on 09/21/2009

Not to press the point, but sheep are castrated and have their tails cut off without anasthesia here too.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:01 PM on 09/22/2009
- dayala I'm a Fan of dayala 18 fans permalink

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:57 PM on 09/22/2009
- addg I'm a Fan of addg permalink

Pigs are pigs - no matter where they are on this planet. Forcing any animal off a high platform is animal cruelty. Why on earth would you think it's different in Australia?! Making an animal perform any "trick" that is not inherent is animal cruelty.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:29 PM on 09/23/2009

"SOME PIG!"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:01 AM on 09/21/2009
- fedupinfla I'm a Fan of fedupinfla 48 fans permalink
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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.....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:57 AM on 09/21/2009

Or Swine Flew ;-)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:28 AM on 09/22/2009
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I'm assuming they have a soft landing of course .....
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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:49 AM on 09/21/2009
- KIVPossum I'm a Fan of KIVPossum 55 fans permalink
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Seems to me hard landings could affect the quality of the hams.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:43 AM on 09/21/2009
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Baby's laugh when they are tossed. Maybe pigs LIKE being tossed!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:16 AM on 09/21/2009
- SFTor I'm a Fan of SFTor 11 fans permalink

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:41 AM on 09/21/2009
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