"Pig Man"...

Before I left, my daughter-in-law had asked if they eat much pork in India.
I said I hadn’t seen, or eaten, any.
But, I have mostly hung out in the west, more Muslims there,
more vegetarians, and also it’s dry country (pigs do better where you have more rainfall).

But over here in Assam, we are far enough east that the people don’t look “Indian”,

they look more like people in Thailand/Vietnam,
and I suppose eating pork is much more common over that way, also, it’s plenty wet here.

So, as we were driving yesterday, we stopped in traffic, in the middle of the town of Shillong.

A hilly place, so as we were sitting, we could see some activity just to our right,
but down the hill enough we that couldn’t make out what they were doing,
…but I could see a guy chasing a pig.

In just a moment (we were still sitting in traffic on a narrow, two lane street),

a fellow came up the hill, with a pig on his back…pig no longer protesting…
But just as I snapped his photo, a small, hatchback taxi backed up to him,
blocking our view a bit.
 

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

Clearly however, the back end of the vehicle went down a bit

as the man flumped the now peaceful pig into the cab.
To close the hatchback, he rolled the pig onto his back, feet sticking up,
and now visible through hatchback window, and of they went.

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

We sometimes speak of cows getting a “one-way ticket to McDonalds”.
Yesterday was that pig’s day for such a trip.
Perhaps he’d been invited to a party, and only realized too late,
that it wasn’t being thrown by Vegetarians…

Pork sausage anyone ?

-M

I say "Pig Man" as opposed to "Goat Man", from an earlier India post...
-M

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin