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Georgia man shoots neighbor’s pig. He tells cops the porker was ‘digging up’ his yard

Monroe County sheriff’s deputies answered a call one afternoon last month regarding what is known in police parlance as an “animal complaint.”

A woman who lives on Boxankle Road near High Falls informed the deputies that a neighbor had shot her pig earlier that week.

“I observed the pig in obvious distress,” one deputy noted in a report of the Nov. 9 episode.

The pig’s owner asked the deputies to “dispatch the pig.”

One of the deputies did so.

The officers then went to speak to the neighbor, a man in his early 70s.

“He admitted that he had shot the pig due to it digging up his yard. … (He) stated that he had already asked the complainant to keep the pig out of his property on several occasions.”

Dispatches: According to an arrest warrant in a Dec. 1 incident, a 46-year-old Macon man in an apartment at the Pendleton Homes public housing complex on Houston Avenue allegedly flung “a glass filled with red Kool-Aid on his mother for no apparent reason.” . . . A 37-year-old Macon man was charged with public indecency near North Avenue on Dec. 7 after he was allegedly seen, as an arrest warrant noted, “lying on the ground at the front entrance of the Kroger grocery store and in the parking lot completely nude.”

This story was originally published December 16, 2022 at 5:00 AM.

Joe Kovac Jr.
The Telegraph
Joe Kovac Jr. writes about local news and features for The Telegraph, with an eye for human-interest stories. Joe is a Warner Robins native and graduate of Warner Robins High. He joined the Telegraph in 1991 after graduating from the University of Georgia. As a Pulliam Fellowship recipient in 1991, Joe worked for the Indianapolis News. His stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the Seattle Times and Atlanta Magazine. He has been a Livingston Award finalist and won numerous Georgia Press Association and Georgia Associated Press awards.
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