Struggling pig kills butcher at slaughterhouse in Hong Kong

May 2024 · 5 minute read

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.

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by Anonymousreply 42January 22, 2023 11:13 AM

Who knew Beanie was in Hong Kong.

by Anonymousreply 2January 21, 2023 7:48 PM

First cows. Now pigs. What next?

by Anonymousreply 3January 21, 2023 7:52 PM

Only a swine would get in the way of bacon for the people

by Anonymousreply 5January 21, 2023 7:58 PM

I hope they give the pig to a farm that won’t kill it.

by Anonymousreply 6January 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 Anonymousreply 7January 21, 2023 8:03 PM

Pig was last seen escaping in a rickshaw pulled by a panda.

by Anonymousreply 8January 21, 2023 8:12 PM

I'm guessing he may have had a heart attack at some point.

by Anonymousreply 9January 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 Anonymousreply 10January 21, 2023 8:17 PM

Are any of you pig eaters?

by Anonymousreply 11January 21, 2023 8:18 PM

Anyone claim the butcher's body yet? I'm in the mood for Chinese.

by Anonymousreply 12January 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 Anonymousreply 13January 21, 2023 8:31 PM

[quote]Pigs are vicious animals.

Bullshit.

by Anonymousreply 14January 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 Anonymousreply 15January 21, 2023 9:00 PM

Pigs are vicious oh course not babe

by Anonymousreply 16January 21, 2023 9:03 PM

Normally pigs are proud to do their duty

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by Anonymousreply 17January 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 Anonymousreply 18January 21, 2023 9:10 PM

The animals are rising up!

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by Anonymousreply 19January 21, 2023 9:19 PM

[quote]and people have been killed by large pigs.

Oh, yes, I know.

by Anonymousreply 21January 21, 2023 9:43 PM

But did the pig get away?.

by Anonymousreply 22January 21, 2023 10:22 PM

He’ll be back to eat your extra punctuation marks.

by Anonymousreply 23January 21, 2023 10:24 PM

[quote] They can and do bite and people have been killed by large pigs.

Slaughterhouse rules.

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by Anonymousreply 24January 21, 2023 10:27 PM

who knew there were this many gay pigs here?

by Anonymousreply 30January 21, 2023 10:37 PM

and not to forget the wimin

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by Anonymousreply 32January 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 Anonymousreply 33January 21, 2023 11:24 PM

R31 Pigs are fucking hard core.

by Anonymousreply 34January 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 Anonymousreply 36January 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.

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by Anonymousreply 37January 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 Anonymousreply 39January 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 Anonymousreply 40January 22, 2023 2:38 AM

Multiple spoiler alert!

Snatch, ZeroZeroZero and Deadwood come to mind.

by Anonymousreply 41January 22, 2023 9:54 AM

"That'll do, pig. That'll do."

by Anonymousreply 42January 22, 2023 11:13 AM

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