If you’re unaware of the “monster pig” story here’s how it all started.

And here’s where we are today.

When I saw the picture last week of the boy with the HUGE pig I wasn’t sure what to think.  At first I thought my station as well as all the others had been duped by a bogus story and an altered picture.  But after couple days had passed and nothing came out to reveal that the story was false, I had to assume it was true.  But I still thought it seemed a bit fishy.

The father of the 11 year old boy even started a website to showcase pictures of his son and the beast as well as display the positive and negative comments they had received as a result of the attention the story garnered.  It originally started out with more chest-pounding content and pictures but currently seems to have been modified to reflect the more accurate and full story.  They weren’t lying, but portions of the truth were omitted.  The kind of omissions that take a story of grandeur like: “Honey I rode a bull today” down a notch when you then reveal: “It was at the fair and just walking around the stall with a guy walking next to me leading it” The original story isn’t a lie, it’s just not quite the whole story.

Once I read the newer articles that offered me (as Paul Harvey would say) “the rest of the story” I felt the world regain it’s balance.  There was no way that there was a pig that large roaming the forests of Alabama….no way.  But, it did provide fodder at news stations around the country for a few days and gave us all relief from normal extraneous-at-the-end-of-the-news-time-filler-stories like the water skiing squirrel.

I’ll be waiting next week for this kid to go shoot the Loch Ness Monster.