News Forum - Driver falls asleep at the wheel in Thailand, 27 pigs dead

[Thaiger]

A driver fell asleep at the wheel while driving a 10-wheel truck carrying pigs through Suphan Buri province in central Thailand yesterday. He drove into a canal and 27 of the pigs died. Officers at Nang Buat Police Station were notified that a lorry carrying pigs had fallen into the canal on the Chainat – …

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[Rookiescot]

Dammit. I bet they were the ones I ordered after BigH's last quiz.

[Ramanathan.P]

Dead or alive, the pigs are still valuable. Those dead can straight away go to processing plants and those alive to slaughter houses...

[Karolyn]

This is an unseen side of meat and dairy farming, and indeed any animal captivity. They are, at our mercy, including our human errors, without which, the poor pigs would not be drowned

[Aussieroaming]

Hence the saying "Pigs might fly". Seriously though, accidents involving livestock a never pleasant. 

[palooka]

On 4/18/2023 at 3:23 PM, Ramanathan.P said:

Dead or alive, the pigs are still valuable. Those dead can straight away go to processing plants and those alive to slaughter houses...

Sorry taken into custody as evidence.