Damn, Bacon? How Bad Can the Economy Get?

Hog Wild: The Great Bacon Crime Spree of 2011

Well, now it’s come to this: Thieves are stealing hogs — sometimes dozens, sometimes hundreds — from farms in the Midwest. That was reported by the New York Times, prompting the Fark headline: “Bacon thieves on the rise in down economy.”

For the record, it’s not easy to steal one hog, never mind a hundred: They usually weigh close to 300 pounds — more than the average man.

It’s also not easy to catch hog thieves for several reasons: 1) the buildings tend to be far away from the main house due to the, ahem, stench, 2) “They all look alike,” as one sheriff told the NYT and 3) They’re probably “bacon and pork chops already” as one farmer so aptly put it.

Of course! The ol’ bring home the evidence, fry it up in a pan, routine.

“This is the hot commodity of the moment, like copper a few years ago and gold,” said the farmer, who recently had 150 of his hogs stolen.

In a related story, a suspect in a string of burglaries in a suburb of St. Louis, Mo., was captured after the homeowner caught him in her kitchen — wait for it — frying bacon.

Onion News would have a field day with this...

[link to www.cnbc.com]