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Article: WRESTLERS GET DOWN AND DIRTY TO PUT SLIPPERY PIGS IN A BARREL.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2005
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Byline: DAN SIMMONS La Crosse Tribune
VIROQUA -- On paper, it hardly seemed fair.
Three men, all Viroqua firefighters, with 100 years between them, weighing in at a collective 575 pounds.
They were going up against one pig, from Abner Miller's Amish farm outside Cashton, barely 10 months old, a scant 180 pounds.
None of it mattered, though. The pig looked more shifty in the knee-deep mud. And the pig's skin proved slippery.
As the tussle began, Jesse Fry, 23, dove at the pig's neck. A squeal and a shake from the pig. Broken tackle.
Fry then wrapped his arms around the pig's belly, "bear-hug style," he said later. The pig squealed louder, but it ...