Post by SpyderLady on Jun 1, 2007 0:29:34 GMT -6
The three pigs had a way to get out but couldn't muster the courage to jump a few feet down to a patio below the home's back door.
Oregon man uses pigs to trash own house after foreclosure
11:15 AM PDT on Sunday, May 27, 2007
By NICK BRADSHAW
Clackamas County Sheriff's Office
Police say the 33-year-old homeowner intentionally locked three pigs inside his home after it went into foreclosure.
Police in Clackamas County are looking for a man they say locked three live pigs in his house in the hopes that they would trash the place. All because he was upset the home went into foreclosure.
Detective Jim Strovink with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said deputies are trying to find 33-year-old Shane Lovett.
More: Photos of pigs, ransacked house
Lovett bought a home on SE Wildcat Mountain Drive in Eagle Creek a few years ago. In January the house went into foreclosure. Neighbors told police that Lovett was extremely distraught over the the situation.
Neighbor Pat Bradshaw was shocked when he returned home from a California trip to find the house in ruins.
"All the windows are broken, he obviously dumped some gravel on top of the roofline, he took his excavator and smashed it into the wall," said Bradshaw.
The yard is full of garbage.
"It's almost like he had to go collect trash to put that much trash in there," said Bradshaw.
"I don't see any way to salvage it," said Bradshaw. "It's pretty obvious that he just decided that if I'm not going to make a profit, nobody's going to make a profit."
Bradshaw was again shocked to see three pigs looking out through the broken door frame.
"Three little pigs, in the house," said Bradshaw.
Lovett apparently told several that he had put the animals inside the house over a week ago and even joked about the fact that they did not have any water.
When deputies responded to complaints about the pigs, the inside and outside of the home were trashed.
Clackamas County Sheriff's Office
The three pigs had a way to get out but couldn't muster the courage to jump a few feet down to a patio below the home's back door.
Thomas Getten, an animal rescue expert from Estacada, was called to rescue the pigs. He was able to coax them out of the house with some food. He said the three pigs were a little dehydrated but otherwise doing fine.
Throughout the whole ordeal, the pigs remained in the house, even though they had a way to get out. The back door to the home had been broken out but the pigs wouldn't jump the few feet to the patio below.
Anyone with information about Lovett was asked to call the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
