Another time, there was a live hog in
the pit. It hadn’t done anything wrong, wasn’t even running
around the pit. It was just alive. I took a three-foot chunk of
pipe—two-inch diameter pipe—and I literally beat that hog to
death. Couldn’t have been a two-inch piece of solid bone left in
its head. . . . It was like I started hitting the hog and I couldn’t
stop. And when I finally did stop, I’d expended all this energy and
frustration, and I’m thinking, what in God’s sweet name did I do?
. . . People go into Morrell expecting respect and good working
conditions. They come out with carpal tunnel, tendonitis, alcoholism,
you name it, because they’re under incredible pressure and they’re
expected to perform under intolerable conditions. Or they develop a
sadistic sense of reality.
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