3 little pig houses left at Ohio road where semi crashed


Three houses, one made of hay, one of sticks and one of bricks, have been constructed along U.S. Route 35 in Xenia Township west of

Authorities estimate up to 1,100 piglets may have died when a semitrailer carrying 2,200 piglets overturned on an Ohio highway.

Agencies and volunteers worked to corral the animals after the crash Monday night on U.S. Route 35 in Xenia Township, near Dayton. Crews picked up squealing pigs by their hind legs. Some may have escaped into wooded areas. Deputy Chief Greg Beegle of the township's fire department says authorities rounded up those they could find before ending the search. He says 1,100 were taken to Greene County Fairgrounds to await transportation. The truck was traveling to Indiana from South Carolina.

Beegle says pigs killed were crushed, suffocated or thrown from the truck. Authorities say the uninjured semitrailer driver lost control, slamming into a guardrail. A female passenger had minor injuries.

Dayton, Ohio, Monday, June 15, 2015. An anonymous apparent fan of pigs and fairy tales is offering some shelter for any piglets still loose after a semitrailer crash last week in southwest Ohio.

XENIA, Ohio (AP) — An anonymous apparent fan of pigs and fairy tales is offering some shelter for any piglets still loose after a semitrailer crash last week in southwest Ohio.

Motorists on U.S. Route 35 in Xenia (ZEEN'-uyh) Township west of Dayton noticed Monday the three small houses along the highway, built fabled "Three Little Pigs" style: That means one of straw or hay, one of sticks and one of bricks.

The Dayton Daily News reports that no big bad wolves had huffed and puffed enough to blow down any houses by late afternoon. Authorities aren't sure how many of the small pigs might have evaded round-up efforts. They say about half of the 2,200 Indiana-bound young pigs were killed when the truck overturned, and nearly all the rest were recovered.

Officers passes off a pig after a semitrailer overturned on a highway carrying about 2,200 pigs in Xenia Township, near Dayton, Ohio, Monday, June 8, 2015. Numerous agencies worked to corral the animals after the crash on U.S. Route 35.

First, you make a roux......

Then start the fire....

I have a great recipe for roast piglet!!!

Just hope none got away!
Otherwise you might get some Ferals in a while!

If they're "makin' bacon"!

What should such incident be called?
A "porcine pile-up"?

Did you know?

"Spam", a trade name for small canned hams,
is a name made a contraction of two words: [SP]iced h[AM].

I LOVE animals. They're delicious!!

Do you think whenever a piglet was handed to a cop they said something like "this little piggy had road rash, this little piggy had none, this little piggy keeps wee wee weeing all over me..."



I thought it was Shoulder Pork & hAM...since that's what it's made of...Pork shoulder and ham...a bunch of chemicals and bonding agents but marketing tends to leave that out if they can.

A road kill feast on the local menu !

and cheap pork in the local stores for a week or so

Oh yes SS,

pork is high on the Road Kill Cafe's menu, along with chunk of skunk, smear of deer, and anything dead on bread.

Stop it people! This is serious "Three little pig stuff".

It's actually a contraction of three words...
Steamed Pressed hAM, and dates back to WW2 American military rations.

That poor deputy in the first pic, looks like he just lost a lover.

Mmmmmm... spam cheesecake!

People don't realize the farming of pigs in the USA is terrible, not only that pigs have the intelligence of a four year old child...smarter then most dogs.
Very sad that the driver screwed up, his fault with the death of these animals.