Courier-Post from Camden, New Jersey • Page 10

10a COURIER-POST, Tuesday, September 27, 1994 It's just a little big on me Visitors hog up day in Lawnsid the grass and minding their own Big news: Two enormously friendly pigs make a huge impression after plodding through town and plopping themselves down in a back yard. By TONYA FOX Courier-Post Staff LAWNSIDE Thirty years ago, when Thelma Long and her husband Henry moved into their home on Park Avenue, it wasn't very odd to see neighbors raising a few chickens and roosters, or even an occasional goat. But when Thelma was summoned to her back porch by her barking dog around 6:15 p.m. Sunday, she never expected to see the two visitors that had boldly made themselves comfortable in her" back yard. "I looked at him and told him to 'scoot'!" Long said, as she demonstrated by shooing her hands.

But it's just not that easy to get a 350-pound hog to move. "Don't you know that pig just looked up at me and snorted as if to say, 'I'm not going business. Moore said that after a few minutes they disappeared into some nearby woods. When help finally arrived, Long said it took nearly two hours, and a couple of wooden boards to get the pigs on the truck. "The one pig was so big that he broke the wooden ramp that animal control set up against the truck," Henry Long said.

"They had to put harnesses on their necks and pull them up, just like cars loading onto a truck," he added. The captured swine were taken to the Garden State Humane Society in Pennsauken where their fate has yet to be decided. There are still no clues as to where the pigs came from. But rest assured, they drove a peaceful neighborhood "hog wild" for a day. i Long said, as she also demonstrated the indignant grunt, rather well in fact The other pig had decided to let its partner do all the talking and plopped itself down underneath a tree, Long said.

When she continued to yell, Long said the unfazed duo merely got up and walked around to her front yard where they found another cool spot, this time on the driveway, to take a load off. But not before they ate some grass and dug up a few feet of her lawn. Long's once-boisterous dogs had smartened up and gave up pursuit, figuring the swine were just too big to mess with. More disgusted than frightened, Long called the police to tell them of her uninvited guests. But the police weren't surprised, because they had been searching for the twosome all afternoon.

Hours earlier, the pigs had been spotted hanging out around the corner on Ellis Avenue. "They were walking around like they owned the place," said Mytrice Moore, an Ellis Avenue resident. "They were just eating 4 A tt AY 4 4 liMai By Oebra L. Bicking, Courier-Post Covered up: Caitlyn Wright, 15 months, of Deptford is nearly engulfed by her shirt during a field hockey game Monday at Gateway High School in Woodbury Heights. Yl! Ill Til GWfy to ixpgri It Alcohol may have played role in woman's drowning Courier-Post Staff PAULSBORO Police said Monday horseplay and the drinking of alcoholic beverages may have played a major part in the drowning death of a 31-year-old Paulsboro woman over the weekend.

The body of Sharon Rafferty-Dickson, 31, of the 400 block Mantua Avenue, was pulled from the swift-moving waters of Mantua Creek about 5:45 p.m. Sunday. She had been missing for about 15 hours. Her companion, Ernest Parks 27, also of Paulsboro, who is a non-swimmer, also had fallen in the 12-foot deep creek. However, he was able to grab onto a bulkhead and climb to safety.

I Police said the two had been at a home on South Delaware Street socializing with friends when they decided to leave. They made their way onto private property in the 1500 block of South Commerce Street, near Parks' home and onto a bulkhead overlooking the creek. The property had been posted with "No Trespassing" signs. "It appears that they both had been drinking and were horse-playing on the bulkhead. She grabbed him and tried to pull him into an embrace when she took a step backward, falling off the bulkhead pulling him into the creek with her," said Lt.

Kenneth Ridinger, acting police chief. "Mr. Parks was definitely under the influence of alcohol, but we will have to wait several weeks for the results of toxicology tests to confirm that Rafferty-Dickson also was drinking," he continued. Camden teen-ager assaulted It's the 100th Anniversary of Labor Day. To cele- of America rolls past your window.

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The suspect began to put the bicycle into the house, then pulled the girl inside. He held a knife to her throat, ordered her to disrobe, then sexually assaulted her twice. After the assault, the victim, who lives outside the city, ran to the transportation center in Camden and took the High-Speed Line to the Ashland station in Cherry Hill, where she was met by friends. The Courier-Post is not releasing the victim's hometown because of her age. The girl's mother took her to Cooper HospitalUniversity Medical Center, Camden, where police were called early Sunday.

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