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Farmer Determined to Have Been Eaten By His Own Hogs After Dentures Found in Pen

Oct. 2, 2012 9:46am
Oregon Farmer Terry Garner Eaten by Hogs, Authorities Investigate Official Cause of Death

Terry Garner's farm on the Oregon coast where remains of his body were found in a hog enclosure. (Image: KCBY screenshot)

When an Oregon man went out to feed his hogs last week in the morning, he never returned. Hours later, a family member went looking for him and found his dentures among other parts of his body in the pen.

Authorities are now looking into how 69-year-old Terry Garner came to be eaten by his own animals last Wednesday on his farm near the Oregon coast, Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier said, according to The Register-Guard. Most of his remains had been consumed, Frasier said Monday.

There is speculation, according to Fraiser, that Garner could have experienced a medical issue or fell over into the pen with some of the animals weighing 700 pounds and was then killed and eaten. Fraiser said that Garner had been bitten at least once by one of the hogs before. Foul play is not being ruled out as a possibility either due to the unusual nature of the case.

“For all we know, it was a horrific accident, but it’s so doggone weird that we have to look at all possibilities,” Frasier told The Register-Guard.

A pathologist was unable to identify a cause or manner of death, the newspaper reported. The remains will be examined by a forensic anthropologist at the University of Oregon.

KCBY reported from the farm itself and warns of the graphic nature of the story topic and also the footage due to animal carcasses seen on the property for “an unknown reason”:

Garner was described by his brother Michael, 75, as “a good-hearted guy” who cared for several huge adult sows and a boar named Teddy.

“Those animals were his life,” Michael Garner said to The Register-Guard. “He had all kinds of birds, and turkeys that ran all over the place. Everybody knew him.”

Michael Garner said one of the large sows bit his brother last year when he accidentally stepped on a piglet.

“He said he was going to kill it, but when I asked him about it later, he said he had changed his mind,” the brother said.

Oregon Farmer Terry Garner Eaten by Hogs, Authorities Investigate Official Cause of Death

(Image: Shutterstock.com)

Domestic hogs are not typically known to be as aggressive as their feral cousins, but “there is some degree of danger associated with any animal,” John Killefer, who heads the Animal and Rangeland Sciences Department at Oregon State University in Corvallis, told the newspaper.

While pigs “are more omnivorous than other farm animals, (such as) cows,” Killefer called the case highly unusual.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report. Featured image via Shutterstock.com. 

(H/T: Daily Mail)

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Comments (86)

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  • Madison2012
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 12:49pm

    Bacon is yummy.

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  • WillG
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 12:34pm

    Any time The_Jerk is ready for our pig roast,come on down to Tennessee. I am waiting.

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    WillG  
    • Independent4233
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 12:47pm

      And where did they find the dentures?

      One of the hogs was wearing them.

      They wouldn’t have noticed if he hadn’t smiled at them.

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      Independent4233  
    • Kaoscontrol
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 1:00pm

      Forget Guantanamo — This farm is where we should take terrorists. “How about a nice pork dinner for your final meal, mr. terrorist?”

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      Kaoscontrol  
  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 12:30pm

    …
    This will be our fate, when ObamaCare is fully implemented in 2014.

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    LeadNotFollow  
    • Tom K
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 2:12pm

      @ LEADNOTFOLLOW : Are you saying we must ” produce ” for the State or be ” consumed ” by the State ? Hey Obama, your death panel just called and it’s your turn.

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    • h20sue
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 6:09pm

      You couldn’t have said it any plainer. Things are already horrible. As a small business owner, I’m about ready to file BR. I worked my butt off for years building my small business. I had an eight hundred and ten credit score and couldn’t get a grant or state loan to enlarge my business. Now, I’m struggling to eat, to help my customers, to provide annual maintenance, and there are “no sales”. Large corporations, some I’m sure you’re famliar with as they are world wide or nation wide, and they are as late paying statements as much as 120 days. It’s getting worse and worse. Heaven help all of us if Obama is re-elected.

      Keep up the comments, I like them….

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  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 12:27pm

    Animal Farm —- Just sayin’

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  • cranberry
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 12:25pm

    Heck, it almost happened to Dorothy! Remember when she fell into the hog pen on The Wizard of Oz? We almost lost her! LOL

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    • Tom K
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 2:23pm

      @ CRANBERRY : You beat me to it. Too bad the Wicked Witch of the East AND her sister didn’t fall into the hog pen. Hogs, wild or domestic, will eat anything OR anyone ! Where is Jimmy Hoffa ?

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      Tom K  
  • JimNew
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:21am

    People with a medical condition which could cause them to become incapacitated, should not work around pigs……or Michelle Obama.

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    • dragonfire420
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 1:13pm

      @jimnew

      shouldn’t work around pigs or moochell?

      that’s a bit redundant isn’t it?

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      dragonfire420  
  • spudwhite
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:16am

    The Duroc sows I raised weren’t bred hogs yet older and bred hogs are more aggressive) and were pretty mellow, being fed a completely natural diet and well-housed/clean, and hand-scratched, yet they did what nature told them when a foolish chicken got into their pen — chicken dinner time in short order. Any pig will eat any meat if it doesn’t get out the way in time.

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    • Milkman
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 12:41pm

      yes…any hog will ‘consume’ a human if you are in a pen with several and drop to the ground from perhaps a heart attack, or become incapacitated. And if you were bleeding from some part of your body as you lie there on the ground….you’ll be consumed even quicker…… Its not that they are vicious or dangerous…its just that if you cannot help yourself as you are on the ground unconscious, they will begin to nudge and nibble and poke and prod until there’s not much left to you…….

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 1:00pm

      Shoo — a sow will eat its own piglets! They are mean animals — the pitbull of the farm scene.

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  • MOLLYPITCHER
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:57am

    I raise pigs. And while they are very friendly, they are NOT gentle. They bite when they’re just checking things out, I think maybe because they can’t see well. Just going in to feed them, I have been knocked over just because they pushed by me. I really don’t find this surprising at all. Not when the pigs are as big as they say. I had pigs eat a goose once. When I looked in the pig pen there was nothing but feet and feathers sticking up out of the mud. At a pig farm where I used to work, a girl came to work drunk, passed out in the pen, and the pigs ate her hair. I would say she is lucky thats all they ate.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:54am

    …
    Hope this man’s death is thoroughly investigated. Someone sinister may have watched that sick disgusting cable series called Deadwood.
    The evil characters in the show regularly murdered people, then fed them to the hogs to dispose of the bodies.

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    LeadNotFollow  
    • MOLLYPITCHER
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:02am

      There was a Criminal Minds episode like that too. The idea of it was so gross I couldn’t finish watching it.

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      MOLLYPITCHER  
    • AnOregonian
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:15am

      Be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm.

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    • Jezreel
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:25am

      Hell on Wheels is just as disgusting. A pair of Irish brothers killed and fed a man to the hogs. I started to watch Hell on Wheels because I love westerns but quickely decided that liberals wrote the series and want to distort and make things much worse than it truly was. All it is is a western with filth and porn and murder. More Hollywood crap.

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      Jezreel  
  • listeninginVT
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:41am

    GMO feed affects the behavior of the animals, they become more aggressive. Other pig farmers noticed this and destroyed their herds and started over w/ organic feed. The animals were now interactive w/ humans and very active and didn’t get sick (constantly) like the GMO herd did. Also the farmers were healthier, no more hormones, GMo, antibiotics exposure (or eating it for that matter)

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:57am

      GMO foods comprise 70% of our food supply..you would be surprised at the number of government officials involved..they are poisonous..and meant to destroy..I am sure a part of Agenda 21..the an ni hil ation of 6.5 billion people.. they cause cancer..auto immune diseases and alzimers..In countries that allow them..only 5% in food supply..other countries..I believe Russia..France and Spain or Italy have banned them..Russia just turned back a crop of GMO corn from the US..I understand Walmart is carrying it and it kills rats.. I understand that one of Monsanto’s attorneys works for the FDA..the banks are the biggest investors..followed by pension funds..Judge Clarence Thomas and Donald Rumsfeld are just 2 that are involved.. Monsanto threatens to sue states with right to know labeling..

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      ashestoashes  
    • ashestoashes
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:00am

      Mitt isn’t guitless in this either..
      http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/09/romney-monsanto-bain

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      ashestoashes  
    • sta
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 12:46pm

      This has NOTHING to do with Genetically Modified Foods. It has everything to do with large animals being hungry and being animals. Ever feed pigs? They are animals and act like it. Stop thinking of all swine as being Wilbur from Charlotte’s Web. The only calm animals are well fed animals. These pigs were waiting for food and frenzied when this tragedy happened.

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      sta  
  • Verceofreason
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:31am

    You see the farmer had an apple in his mouth and the poor pigs thought
    he had just been served for dinner.

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  • noslave
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:14am

    another win win idea?? ecological/political correct way to dispose of communists??

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    noslave  
  • BadgerBenson
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:12am

    SAMNJOEYSGRAMA is right. This happens every now and then. Over the years I’ve heard several stories of farmers having heart problems or other medical issues that cause them to fall in a pen. Once that happens the hogs can move in like sharks.

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  • NewLife24
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:12am

    We should breed a trillion of these and send them to every Muslim we know.

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  • objectivetruth
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:10am

    Hogs can be very aggressive.I assume he didn’t put the sow down when it bit him as he had accidently hurt the piglet.The sow did what was natural.It probaly was contained in its response though as it had been raised domestically.Most animals raised around humans temper their defensive maternal instincts to a degree.
    Its well known that hogs will kill humans and just about anything else for that matter.However something doesn’t ring right with this.Normally it would either be a stranger or due to extreme hunger.This doesn’t seem to be the case here.Hogs don’t like strangers in their pens.Usually they attack in defense and simply eat the carcass as its naturally inclined to do.Something tells me he died in the pen then was eaten.
    Is it possible the hogs were rabid?Could a animal have spooked them earlier?

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  • RIGS
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:08am

    I really liked the photo of HARRY RIED and NANCY PELOSI looking thru the fence.

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    RIGS  
  • Exidor
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:06am

    Hog farm. Still the best way to get rid of a body…..

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    Exidor  
  • The-Monk
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:06am

    Shade of Hannibal Lector….

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    The-Monk  
  • lamarlamar
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:02am

    Reminds me of a murder case in Florida. Help killed the owner and fed him to the pigs! AND we are going to have a bacon shortage!?!?!?!

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    lamarlamar  
  • pap pap
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:01am

    If you eat these pigs now would that make you a cannibal ?

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    pap pap  
  • biohazard23
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:00am

    Anybody know where Brick Top was at the time?

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  • samnjoeysgrama
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 9:54am

    This is nothing new. My mother is 83 and told me stories of this happening to farmers who had a heart attack and fell into the hog pen. If you look at the skull of a boar and a bear, it is hard to tell the difference. The long teeth on the top is the bear, on the bottom is the boar. Boars were fed dead horses, etc during the Depression when there was nothing else to feed them. They are omnivores, just like people, not herbivorous like cattle. Welcome to the real world all you folks who thought the TV show Grizzly Adams was true. They will sometimes become cannibalistic and eat each other, too. This is really common in the wild, less common in domesticated hogs..

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  • horsehockey
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 9:52am

    Happened all the time on “Deadwood”, that’s the way the saloon owner/operator got rid of his enemies.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 9:52am

    The tip was the Pigs were wearing his clothes and had taken over his house. Plus they had all the other animals building a windmill. Remember, all animals are equal, just some are more equal.

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  • Mapache
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 9:49am

    One with nature?

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    Mapache  
    • Hanner
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:01am

      Hogs will definitely eat meat, but I have not heard of a story where domestic hogs kill. Wild hogs are another matter. I have a large scar on my left leg from one of those nasty critters.

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