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Pig theft not a hoax

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Police in southwest England assumed they were being pranked when a farm worker named Nicky Bacon called to report a stolen pig, the Bath Chronicle reports.

A 50-year-old farm worker at Windmill Hill City Farm in Bristol, Bacon called the police after workers discovered a pig missing. The police soon called back with questions about Bacon's identity. "They were really suspicious. They said that both of my names had made them suspicious it was a hoax. On reflection, having the surname Bacon when reporting a pig missing is funny, but I hadn't even thought about my first name," Bacon told the Bath Chronicle. In Britain, to "nick" something is slang for stealing.

According to the Bath Chronicle, the workers were shocked by the theft. "At first we didn't know if she was stolen or if she had just escaped," Simone Dougall told the paper. "But from the look of how the pen was damaged, we could tell that it was done deliberately by a human rather than an animal."

According to the Bristol Post, Bradley McCarthy of Bishport Close was charged with handling stolen goods after a member of the public reported seeing the pig. BP

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