http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,394344,00.htmlWhen a 1,000-pound wild hog was shot last year in Alabama, 11-year-old hunter Jamison Stone couldnt have been happier. But his prize photos of the 9-foot-long boar have continued to cause a stink, one the Stone family cant seem to shake.
The backlash has only grown worse, with one group calling for the hunters' prosecution.
"It is unbelievable what my family has been through over the past year," Mike Stone, Jamisons father, told The Birmingham News. "It has taken 10 years off my life."
An online petition has garnered more than 800 signatures from around the world demanding prosecution for what activists are calling animal cruelty, according to the newspaper. Rhonda Roland Shearer, a New York City organizer seeking punishment for the hunting team, says it took three hours for the monster pig to die after the animal was shot 12 times with a pistol.
"My concern is that this case has brought a negative image to Alabama and to hunters who hunt ethically," Shearer told the News. Shearer has demanded investigations from the county and federal attorneys offices and two conservation departments, but no charges have been filed.
But her fight is not over.
There are people all over the world who are outraged," she said.
The Stone family is feeling their wrath.
"You should see some of the emails and hear some of the calls we have received," Jamisons father said. "They are explicit. They tell how they are going to kill my son, like cutting his head off.
"It has had us scared to death ... All I did was to take my son on a legal hunting trip."
The prize pig, shot by Jamison Stone on an Alabama hunting preserve in May 2007, was 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet, 4 inches from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.
If the claims are accurate, Jamison's trophy boar would be bigger than the original Hogzilla, the legendary 800-pound, 8-foot-long wild hog killed in south Georgia in 2004.
All I would say is that they better come well armed.
