1,051 lb hog caught in Alabama
What's the big deal? Isn't this normal for an Alabama prom picture!!! 
05-27-2007, 12:18 AM
#15
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I know this has to be fake but for the life of me I can't point out any obvious signs that it was doctored. Maybe someone with a little more experience can examine it? I think maybe under the kids arms might be a little suspicious but the background and the trees all seem to line up right... Oh well, that's a huge friggin pig and I definately agree that it has to be more than 1,000 lbs if the picture is legit.
<EDIT> Actually, now that I look at it closer (Still haven't opened it in photoshop). It appears that there is a blur all around the outline of the boar. If someone took a picture of the kid standing there and a picture of a normal sized dead boar, blew up the pic of the boar, cut the boar out of the original pic, pasted and layered it and then used the smudge tool to -carefully- go around the border of the pig I think it would explain it. I must put emphasis on the carefully part because whoever did it (Assuming I'm right) did a pretty good job.
<EDIT> Actually, now that I look at it closer (Still haven't opened it in photoshop). It appears that there is a blur all around the outline of the boar. If someone took a picture of the kid standing there and a picture of a normal sized dead boar, blew up the pic of the boar, cut the boar out of the original pic, pasted and layered it and then used the smudge tool to -carefully- go around the border of the pig I think it would explain it. I must put emphasis on the carefully part because whoever did it (Assuming I'm right) did a pretty good job.
05-27-2007, 04:26 AM
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looks like a simple false perspective trick to me. Just like when you hold a fish out away from you when snapping a picture. The kid is further back than the picture suggests making him smaller and the pig seem larger. Too bad he resorted to trickery, this would have been a more impressive story with a true to scale shot.
05-27-2007, 07:29 AM
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I don't know if the story and pic are real or not, but they were printed in my local paper yesterday. Apparently an 11 year old kid shot it 8 times with his pistol while chasing it through the woods for 3 hours. Sounds like a pretty exciting hunt to me.
