This really happened in your city Nashville! My journalism friends will appreciate this. One of the things I like to do sometimes is read old newspaper articles. I recently discovered this funny little piece in the Nashville Retro at the Green Hills Library: 1958 - They Went Whole Hog Till Somebody Upn Squealed By Pinckney Keel Nashville Banner, March 5, 1958 Nashville police were in a dilemma today. They didnt know whether to charge five men with peddling hot pork chops-on-the-hoof or turn them loose so the quintet could ham it up, but the strong arm of the law wasnt in nearly the dilemma Northeast Nashville housewives were this morning. You never sausage a mess. Heres sow it started: Answering knocks at their doors, the housewives were aghast to see, not the laundryman or postman, but squirming, squealing little pigs, tucked haphazardly under the arm of a man who rapidly launched into a sales pitch. He extolled the advantage of purchasing a whole shoat on the hoof rather than fool with numerous trips to the butcher and having to mull over and select certain cuts of pork. Pig-shy residents in the vicinity of Second and Foster Streets called police, asking them to bring the riot squad since the whole affair was, in fact, a real riot. Patrolman Odie Sage (thats right-Sage), who was at Second and Whiteside, spotted the culprits car, loaded with live, grunting porkers, and ordered the loaded sedan to the curb. The five men emerged, leaving a big Boston bulldog guarding the front seat and a haughty rooster perched in the middle of the back seat. The swine were nowhere to be seen, or heard, either, for that matter. Closer investigation, however, revealed the piglets were stashed in the trunk. Stockyard worker Johnnie Drake, a veteran hog-tier, reached cautiously into the trunk and brought out two cowering pigs. They were kept, for the time being, at the stockyards. There seems to be no law against selling pigs, but there does seem to be a law against creating disturbances by piglary, dogging around, crowing too loud and especially greeting housewives with a pig-in-the-face. Police found the owner of the pigs had bought them in the country, and he was freed. The other four were freed a few hours later after being held on a technical charge of loitering.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 17:48:06 +0000
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