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Pervert caught having sex with pig

Metro Last updated at 00:00am on 15.08.03

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A man has been arrested after having sex with a pig.

The pervert was caught in the act by a passer-by who spotted him abusing the animal at an inner-city farm.

Police arrived within ten minutes of receiving a 999 call and arrested the 72-year-old, who was naked from the waist down.

Lynne Bennett, manager of Stepping Stones Farm in Stepney, East London, said the man appeared to have deliberately targeted their most passive pig.

She added: 'If he'd picked on one of the others, he would have been in serious trouble.

'They would have done him some damage.'

Police bailed the offender until next month and a vet gave the pig a clean bill of health.

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Damn! Now we know how Swine Flu started.He's killed us all!

- Ian, London

Am I missing something? What is the "misunderstanding"? The man was raping a defenseless piggy! That's way perverted, IMO. Nothing wrong with stating the obvious, is there? I might have a cultural bias in how stories of crimes are reported. I'm in tabloid America.

- Allan, San Diego, California, U.S.A.

The use of the word pervert is highly prejudicial. It is a strange case but the wording in this is unfair.

- Sandy Reed, Australian

That is a bit odd, I agree with it being a misunderstanding

- Alyssa, Beaverton, USA

Complete misunderstanding

- Eoin, London

Maybe he was trying to bring down the price of bacon

- Dave, derbyshire uk

That's the most convincing argument for vegetarianism that I've ever read.

- Matt, Leicestershire UK

I'm intending to travel down to Stepney this week, I don't suppose the same pig is still at the farm by any chance?

- Piglet Davis, Thornton UK