US | pig Pigs Survive Floods, Still Buy the Farm Iowa cops shoot the porkers as they scramble on levees By Mary Papenfuss 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." Read These Next All is not well in the Beckham family. Meet the Oscar winner who says the award injured her career. An Indiana judge and his wife have been shot at their home. Sources say federal gun laws are headed for a big rollback. Report an error