US / pig Pigs Survive Floods, Still Buy the Farm Iowa cops shoot the porkers as they scramble on levees By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff Posted Jun 19, 2008 12:00 PM CDT Copied A pig who somehow floated or swam several miles from the flooded hog barns near Oakville, Iowa, rests on the Mississippi River side of a sandbagged levee near Kingston, Iowa, Tuesday, June 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) They managed to survive torrential rains and swam mightily through rising water, but a clutch of feisty midwestern pigs couldn't dodge a sheriff's bullet. At least a dozen porkers were shot dead this week as they scrambled on Iowa levees. "My gosh, it happens every day," snapped a town official who said the pigs were killed to protect the levees. "That's how we get bacon and pork chops." (More pig stories.) Report an error