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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 04:10 PM Nov 2013

Mafia Don Eaten Alive By Pigs In Revenge Murder

In a plot stolen straight out of "Hannibal", Italian police are saying that Calabrian mobsters recently murdered a mafia don by beating the man with a spade and then throwing him into a sty, where he was eaten alive by pigs.

Francesco Raccosta, the don of the ‘Ndrangheta crime family in Calabria, disappeared last year amidst whispers that he had been responsible for the murder of a rival mob boss, Domenico Bonarrigo, of the Mazzagatti family.

Bonarrigo was shot and killed while driving his car. Eleven days later, Raccosta disappeared without a trace.

Italian police sent in an undercover officer to investigate and made the gory results public this month.


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Mafia Don Eaten Alive By Pigs In Revenge Murder (Original Post) n2doc Nov 2013 OP
Jeebus! Are_grits_groceries Nov 2013 #1
I believe someone saw the movie, Snatch Brother Buzz Nov 2013 #2
This type of crime isn't just a movie plot. Are_grits_groceries Nov 2013 #4
Piggy's Palace countryjake Nov 2013 #10
I didn't know because I don't run in those circles Brother Buzz Nov 2013 #12
If you are in those circles, you damn well better run. Are_grits_groceries Dec 2013 #29
All bet are off if you ran in circles with this gang Brother Buzz Dec 2013 #33
I never understood the "hence" part Boom Sound 416 Nov 2013 #15
The "hence" bit was a recurring line Brother Buzz Nov 2013 #16
Wow, I missed that. I'll look for it, thanks Boom Sound 416 Nov 2013 #24
Do you know what nemesis means ? dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #23
In other words, bring them before congress? xfundy Nov 2013 #28
Or, watched Deadwood Fla_Democrat Dec 2013 #30
Puts a whole new meaning to "you are what you eat" Renew Deal Nov 2013 #3
oh no! Voice for Peace Nov 2013 #5
I hear swine make short work of long pig n/t Scootaloo Nov 2013 #6
I've got another one for your pigs, Wu ... dawg Nov 2013 #7
Body disposal by pig pen was very popular on the TV HBO series FarPoint Nov 2013 #8
On "Copper" Kevin Corcoran fed Annie O'Reilly's abusive Cleita Nov 2013 #11
It's grisly and awful Aerows Nov 2013 #17
Whoa...that's intense. FarPoint Nov 2013 #21
Never mind BBC canceled a third season. Cleita Nov 2013 #22
Ahhh,dang. FarPoint Nov 2013 #25
Thanks. I didn't know about it. I will watch it. n/t Cleita Nov 2013 #26
I didn't know they'd canceled it. kentauros Dec 2013 #31
Yeah, the writing was lacking. Cleita Dec 2013 #34
Copper kept me watching to see what the resolution of the plot would be, kentauros Dec 2013 #36
Mr Wu's pigs catchnrelease Dec 2013 #32
Imaginative aren't they? Cleita Nov 2013 #9
And now he's making bacon, it seems. MineralMan Nov 2013 #13
Eww Aerows Nov 2013 #14
"Deadwood" is back?? n/t SoCalDem Nov 2013 #18
Of course, the revenge as plotted in Hannibal was worse... PCIntern Nov 2013 #19
I thought they made them 'sleep with the fishes' edbermac Nov 2013 #20
I guess they'll do that. I'd always wondered about that old hillbilly expression, The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2013 #27
That's how old Bricktop would handle the situation MrScorpio Dec 2013 #35

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
2. I believe someone saw the movie, Snatch
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 04:17 PM
Nov 2013

Brick Top: You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.

Sol: Would someone mind telling me, who are you?

Brick Top: And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig."

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
4. This type of crime isn't just a movie plot.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 04:32 PM
Nov 2013

Farmers have been killed and eaten by their own pigs.
Real criminals before this mafia mess have used pigs to hide crimes.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
10. Piggy's Palace
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 04:50 PM
Nov 2013
Death Farm by Charles Mudede


The Geography of Pig Farmer Robert Pickton, the Man Suspected of Having Killed Over 60 Vancouver, BC, Sex Workers

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=16079

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
12. I didn't know because I don't run in those circles
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 04:59 PM
Nov 2013

Snatch was a terribly funny 'Dark Comedy'. I believe the pig dude got his 'just desserts' at the end of the film à la piggies.

You know what I mean, Vern?

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
23. Do you know what nemesis means ?
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 06:58 PM
Nov 2013

A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case...........

FarPoint

(12,409 posts)
8. Body disposal by pig pen was very popular on the TV HBO series
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 04:45 PM
Nov 2013

Deadwood...An old favorite series of mine.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
11. On "Copper" Kevin Corcoran fed Annie O'Reilly's abusive
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 04:50 PM
Nov 2013

pedophile husband, whom she had killed, to his own pigs to get rid of the evidence. It was a disturbing scene even though the body being consumed was a corpse.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
17. It's grisly and awful
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 05:44 PM
Nov 2013

but I'd take pedophile eaten by pigs for a thousand, Chuck, especially if they are already dead. Disturbing and disgusting, but no more so than what they do to small children, and for that, I am less than inclined to care.

FarPoint

(12,409 posts)
21. Whoa...that's intense.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 06:51 PM
Nov 2013

I'll have to catch up on Copper via on demand. I tend to miss it for some reason. I'm always looking for new entertainment.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
22. Never mind BBC canceled a third season.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 06:54 PM
Nov 2013

The writing wasn't very tight so I suspect that's why they canceled it. The characters and historical background had promise and the actors were good, but the stories sometimes didn't make sense.

FarPoint

(12,409 posts)
25. Ahhh,dang.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 07:17 PM
Nov 2013

Hey, I just watched the first episode of Atlantis on BBC....2nd episode tonight...I like Mark Addy...he is Hercules. Just thought I'd share this.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
31. I didn't know they'd canceled it.
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 12:55 AM
Dec 2013

However, I did like Ripper Street better anyway. I thought the writing was much better, and even though the violence was on the same level, there didn't seem to be as much of it. I'll have to look to see if it's coming back or not.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
34. Yeah, the writing was lacking.
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 01:11 AM
Dec 2013

I did like the setting of he show and the characters. It could have used better writers.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
36. Copper kept me watching to see what the resolution of the plot would be,
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 02:10 AM
Dec 2013

but I didn't like it that much. The violence was just too over the top (and too much of it), like watching a Sam Peckinpah movie.

The second season of Ripper Street has been produced and aired on BBC, but BBC America still hasn't gotten it yet that I could determine.

PCIntern

(25,556 posts)
19. Of course, the revenge as plotted in Hannibal was worse...
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 05:54 PM
Nov 2013

the victim of Hannibal from years before was going to keep Lecter alive via IV fluids and cause him to die slowly and horribly - you have to read the book - I"m not gonna repeat in toto here. Grotesque...

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,734 posts)
27. I guess they'll do that. I'd always wondered about that old hillbilly expression,
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 07:27 PM
Nov 2013

"Ain't had so much excitement since the hogs et Grampaw."

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