Struggling pig kills butcher at slaughterhouse in Hong Kong

[RandySF]

CNN — A butcher died while trying to slaughter a pig in Hong Kong on Friday, the city’s police said.

The 61-year-old butcher, who worked in the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse on the city’s northern outskirts close to its border with mainland China, was knocked to the ground by the struggling pig and sustained a wound from a 40 centimeter (15 inch) meat cleaver, police told CNN.

The butcher had been about to kill the pig – which he had already shot with an electric stun gun – when it regained consciousness and knocked him over, police said.

A colleague found the man unconscious with the cleaver in his hand and a wound on his left foot, police said. He was taken to hospital and was later certified dead.



https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/21/asia/hong-kong-pig-kills-butcher-intl-hnk/index.html

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Justice! Sounds Like A Good Twilight Zone Episode nt

[MMBeilis]

2. First it was a dog who shot a hunter and now this. These animals have had enough and.....

.....are coming after us. Keep your eyes open.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dog-shoots-man-kansas_n_63d05d74e4b04d4d18e219ab

[LT Barclay]

4. It does make you wonder...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/alleged-rhino-poachers-eaten-by-lions-south-africa-reserve

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/africa/suspected-poacher-trampled-south-africa-intl/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(TV_series)

But I think the first was this:

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/tragedy-whaleship-essex. If you read the book, you won't be able to resist rooting for the whale.

[panader0]

14. I read it and you are right. Quite a great, true story.

[malaise]

13. You missed this one

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217576716

and welcome to DU

[LPBBEAR]

15. There is a reason

you leave a weapon unloaded until you actually are out of the vehicle and actively hunting. Also why the safety is supposed to be on when the weapon is loaded. Basic Hunter Safety rules. I don't hunt anymore and haven't for years but I remember those rules being drilled into us at the hunter safety class I was required to take as a teenager.
Everything about this incident sounds illogical. Loaded weapon, apparently a long gun, somehow pointing at a passenger or driver (in the front seat?) dog bouncing around the loaded weapon, safety off? Did hunters stop using rifle racks? (apparently not a truck) How does one manage to stash a rifle in the back seat of a vehicle so that it points at someone in the front seat and if it wasn't a truck with a rack why weren't the weapons stored in the trunk until actively stopped and hunting anyway? Just weird all around.

[flvegan]

3. Oh no. Anyway.

[musette_sf]

5. Sometimes...

[48656c6c6f20]

6. Oh lol man. I betcha the man's family finds this all hilarious!

Humanity is as dead as the souls that roam it.

[Celerity]

9. Unbelievable (well probably not TBH) that people are seemingly cheering the death of the butcher.

Disappointing.

[MMBeilis]

10. You're right. Thanks for posting this. When I posted above, about the dog that shot the....

....hunter, I was focused on the irony and forgot about the human tragedy. His family no doubt suffers from his loss, not to mention his own suffering as he bled to death. Mea culpa.

[NickB79]

12. Why? They cheered the death of a hunter just a couple days ago

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217584938

[Celerity]

16. I missed that before. Shameful as well. Disgusting to see this hate on DU.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

23. Are you surprised? I'm not.

But yes, it is disappointing.

Cue the usual suspects.

[Coventina]

25. :-)

[Coventina]

20. The pig was fighting for its life, I don't find that funny at all. n/t

[48656c6c6f20]

22. Sure I understand that

Fuck the human being. I get it, you hate people.

[Coventina]

24. I do actually. I've never made that a secret around here.

No other species has done as much damage to the planet.

[48656c6c6f20]

26. Well self eradication may be the answer then

I prefer not to go there though. I'm not as ready to exterminate humanity just yet

[Coventina]

27. It's coming, whether we are ready or not.

The sad part is, we're taking far too many of our fellow creatures with us.

[Coventina]

7. Sadly the pig will probably be slaughtered anyway.

Despite its heroic self-defense.

[48656c6c6f20]

17. The Butcher was 61, probably had wife, kids, grandchildren

And this was his lowly job to support them. But you cheer for that pig now.

[Raine]

18. At least I'm not wishing the death of people who weren't

vaccinated like so many posters here in Du do or cheering the death of Diamond when she died. I guess you missed all that though or didn't go after those posters! So i expressed sympathy for the pig ... but whatever.

[48656c6c6f20]

19. Ah you're right. Sorry

I forgot all about the, "they did it too" rule. You were well within your rights to join them

[Trueblue1968]

11. ahhhhhhhhh, what a bummer.

[Elessar Zappa]

21. Poor guy.

RIP.

[inthewind21]

28. Click bait headline

"The police force said the cause of death has yet to be determined." So how do they know the pig killed him? Nothing more than a wound to the foot?