As recently reported in a Queensland, Australia newspaper, The Morning Bulletin:
MORE than 30,000 pigs have been floating down the Dawson River since last weekend, with a piggery at Baralaba paralysed by flooding which has killed most of its bred live-stock.
Baralaba Butchers' Sid Everingham owns and runs the piggery near Baralaba.
Mr Everingham said: "We've lost probably about 30,000 pigs in the floods, we tried to get as many weaners and suckers out by boat, but we could only save about 70 weaners, and the ...
Source:
http://www.highbeam.com/...
Now if you were a crack Aussie journalist, wouldn’t that number at least give you pause to think,
"Crikey – that's a bloody big mob of pigs, mate! Are you London to a brick that there were 30,000 of 'em? I mean, that’s a catastrophe of Biblical proportions!"
But as it turns out, it actually ...
... was "30 sows and pigs" not "30,000 pigs" ..."
Source:
http://themediablog.typepad.com/...
"Oh, that’s very different.... Never mind."
And in unrelated animal terrors, the San Diego Tribune reports:
Man Stabbed to Death by a Rooster
DELANO, Calif. — A Central California man who was at a cockfight died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its own limb, officials confirmed Monday.
Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, of Lamont, was declared dead at a hospital about two hours after he was injured in neighboring Tulare County on Jan. 30, the Kern County coroner said.
An autopsy concluded Ochoa died of an accidental "sharp force injury" to his right calf.
Source:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/...
It would seem this disproves the claim of "No harm, no fowl"
(Both stories were posted in today's The Volokh Conspiracy blog)