Creative Editing
Chapter 4
Exercise 6
6. Edit this story, which has a variety of problems.
wild pigs
Titusville, Florida -- AP -- The wild pigs which have been giving Kennedy Space Center officials headaches for years are now ending up on the menu at the Bravard County jail.
Sheriff Jake Miller says the pigs are "goodies from heaven". "I'm constantly looking for food sources for that jail Miller said.
The plan to trap the animals is the latest of several ideas by Miller to cut down on the food bill for the jail's two hundred and fifty inmates. His efforts are apparantly paying off.
The jails meal budget for the upcomming fiscial year is $260 thousand dollars, the same as in the current fiscial year. Its the first time anyone can remember the food bill not going up. The National Auronautics and Space Administration gave Miller permission about 2 months ago to trap the porkers whose population was estimated recently at over 5000 and multiplying fast.
NASA officials are afraid the pigs could threaten the space shuttle and other craft by wandering onto the space center's runway. In addition, the porkers cause traffic accidents dig near under ground cables and endanger other wild life by hogging food supplies.
The piggs began multiplying after they were abandoned by home owners displaced in the 1960's when NASA bought their property to build the space center. At first Millers traps came up empty when he tried baiting them with corn which the wild pigs barely noticed. Once trappers switched to leftovers from the jail and other goodies to give the bait an odor the hogs couldn't resist the sheriff said. About 6 hogs were slaughtered last week and are in the jails freezer waiting to be cooked. Jail Administrator Frank Billings says he hopes eventually to keep about twenty-five or thirty porkers at the prison farm to serve as a constant suply of meat.
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