The Pig That Blew The Place To Kingdom Come
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (112929)
United States
March 14, 2020 9:59am CST
This is a TRUE story.
A farmer in North Yorkshire was trying to show the government that he had free range pigs to get a tax break. He put pedometers on all of his pigs to show how freely his pigs are roaming.
One of the pedometers on one of the pigs fell off.
The pig in question ATE the pedometer.
As all things eaten go, the pedometer was excreted as per the norm. BUT, being that pig manure, as does all manure, has a lot of methane in it, and things in manure also break things down...
The pedometer was decomposing in the pig pile.
There is a battery in the pedometer decomposing in the pig pile.
The methane and the battery do not make a good combination. And as a result the pedometer in the pig pile EXPLODED.
The explosion caused the farmer's field to catch fire. And subsequently, that fire burned down his farm.
You can't make this stuff up. 
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10 responses
@porwest (112929)
• United States
14 Mar 20
I kept trying to think what was the strangest part of this story. Pigs with pedometers on? Or was it a pig EATING a pedometer? Or perhaps a pedometer in a pile of poop exploding? Or that a farm was annihilated due to a pedometer wearing pig who blew the place up after eating it?
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
14 Mar 20
@owlwings ohk...strange things happen a lot these days.
@porwest (112929)
• United States
14 Mar 20
@amitkokiladitya Yep. It really is true.
Seventy-five square metres of farm near Leeds set alight after copper in pedometer battery reacted with dung and dry hay
@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
16 Mar 20
That is crazy! I imagine most everyone has a true family story that would have to be published under "fiction."
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
16 Mar 20
@porwest Like they say, truth is stranger than fiction.
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@porwest (112929)
• United States
17 Mar 20
@1creekgirl More than we know. Which reminds me, there was another funny story, this one out of Wisconsin, I think would be fun to share.
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@LindaOHio (222803)
• United States
14 Mar 20
Oh. My. Goodness. Stay safe and healthy.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
14 Mar 20
No, it would be difficult to make it up but only too easy to 'embroider' the truth.
1) The manure pile did NOT explode - it caught fire.
2) Neither the whole field nor the farm burnt down - it was just a small fire and no humans or pigs were injured.
Please check your facts!
Firefighters said they "saved the bacon" after a battery in the pedometer ignited in a pigpen.
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@porwest (112929)
• United States
14 Mar 20
I wasn't going for total facts here. Just having fun embellishing the story just a WEE bit for shock factor and a few more pennies, 
If nothing else, it MIGHT serve as a FINE example of how you can make a story seem worse than it is. Like the Coronavirus for example.
I have a funny way, sometimes, of putting people's minds back to work in a creative way. 
If nothing else, it MIGHT serve as a FINE example of how you can make a story seem worse than it is. Like the Coronavirus for example.
I have a funny way, sometimes, of putting people's minds back to work in a creative way. 1 person likes this
@snowy22315 (209143)
• United States
14 Mar 20
Just something that illustrates truth is stranger than fiction.
