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Pig team.
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.
The police force said the cause of death has yet to be determined.
The city’s Labour Department said it has launched an investigation.
“The Labour Department is saddened by the death of the person and expresses its deepest sympathy to his family,” it said in a statement.
“We will complete the investigation as soon as possible to identify the cause of the accident, ascertain the liability of the duty holders and recommend improvement measures. We will take actions pursuant to the law if there is any violation of the work safety legislation,” a department spokesman said.
The city’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, which manages livestock slaughterhouses, offered its condolences to the man’s family in a statement.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 42 | January 22, 2023 11:13 AM |
Who knew Beanie was in Hong Kong.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 21, 2023 7:48 PM |
First cows. Now pigs. What next?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 21, 2023 7:52 PM |
Only a swine would get in the way of bacon for the people
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 21, 2023 7:58 PM |
I hope they give the pig to a farm that won’t kill it.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 21, 2023 8:00 PM |
They’d be crazy to try to kill it.
He already took one dude out, how many more do you want to sacrifice?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 21, 2023 8:03 PM |
Pig was last seen escaping in a rickshaw pulled by a panda.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 21, 2023 8:12 PM |
I'm guessing he may have had a heart attack at some point.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 21, 2023 8:12 PM |
Lovable pigs like Wilbur and Babe are purely fiction.
Pigs are vicious animals.
Wild pigs are a huge invasive pest in many parts of the US and require fairly brutal measures to trap and kill them.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 21, 2023 8:17 PM |
Are any of you pig eaters?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 21, 2023 8:18 PM |
Anyone claim the butcher's body yet? I'm in the mood for Chinese.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 21, 2023 8:26 PM |
I eat pork because I'm not a complete pussy or trapped in biblical times where there wasn't any such thing as sanitation or cleanliness.
Team butcher.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 21, 2023 8:31 PM |
[quote]Pigs are vicious animals.
Bullshit.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 21, 2023 8:49 PM |
I guess pigs can be vicious when they're regaining consciousness after being Tased and then seeing a butcher knife.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 21, 2023 9:00 PM |
Pigs are vicious oh course not babe
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 21, 2023 9:03 PM |
Normally pigs are proud to do their duty
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 17 | January 21, 2023 9:06 PM |
I grew up on a small farm that occasionally raised pigs. For the most part, the pigs were fairly harmless. Still, you needed to watch your back if you had to go in their pen. They can and do bite and people have been killed by large pigs.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 21, 2023 9:10 PM |
The animals are rising up!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | January 21, 2023 9:19 PM |
[quote]and people have been killed by large pigs.
Oh, yes, I know.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 21, 2023 9:43 PM |
But did the pig get away?.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 21, 2023 10:22 PM |
He’ll be back to eat your extra punctuation marks.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 21, 2023 10:24 PM |
[quote] They can and do bite and people have been killed by large pigs.
Slaughterhouse rules.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 24 | January 21, 2023 10:27 PM |
who knew there were this many gay pigs here?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 21, 2023 10:37 PM |
and not to forget the wimin
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 32 | January 21, 2023 10:46 PM |
Back in the 90s, we had a problem with wild boars on our ranch in Texas. My father, RIP, got the idea to hunt them, have them butchered at the slaughterhouse, and sell them to restaurants in France as "Texas Wild Boar" meat.
It basically paid for my brother's and my college education.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 21, 2023 11:24 PM |
R31 Pigs are fucking hard core.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 22, 2023 1:00 AM |
R13 Hmm. You eat pork because we have cleanliness, sanitation, and are not in biblical times. What about a beef cheeseburger?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 22, 2023 1:54 AM |
Pigs possess high mental, emotional and social intelligence.
(I wonder where humans rank on the linked scale and why we were omitted; [coming in at Number 16, perhaps?])
And no, it's unlikely that unfortunate creature was retired to an animal reserve - we're talking about the fucking PRC here, not Woodstock.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 37 | January 22, 2023 2:13 AM |
Do you think he’s up in pig heaven telling the other pigs, “yeah, they eventually got me. But I took out one of them muthafuckas on the way! That’s a badass”?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 22, 2023 2:21 AM |
R39: The pig and the man were reunited at Rainbow Bridge where, hoof-in-hand, they crossed over to Heaven together.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 22, 2023 2:38 AM |
Multiple spoiler alert!
Snatch, ZeroZeroZero and Deadwood come to mind.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 22, 2023 9:54 AM |
"That'll do, pig. That'll do."
by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 22, 2023 11:13 AM |
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