Legend grows around 'Hogzilla'

1,000-pound hog reportedly killed on Georgia plantation

ALAPAHA, Ga. - Around these parts, they are calling it Hogzilla: a 12-foot-long wild hog recently killed on a plantation and now quickly becoming a part of local legend.

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The plantation's owner claims the hog weighed 1,000 pounds and had 9-inch tusks. But few people have actually seen the hog -- the only proof being a photo that shows the dead beast hanging from a rope

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I do believe that's what is known as 'foreshortening' ...

"Legend grows around a 1000-m tall Japanese tourist who was so tall he could hold the eiffel tower between his thunb and index finger... nobody has actually ever seen him, but all Mitsubishi Osaka employees saw the photo when their boss returned from his trip to Paris..."