re: Greatest Non-TigerDroppings.com Real Life Trolls of all Time

Back in those days guys would work half a year or so and make a shite ton of money. Somehow we decided to improve on that...

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Porky was a talented logger and was famous for the ending act he performed every year at the All-Alaska Logging Championships. He felled the spar tree so that it hit a target on the ground. The target was usually a hard hat, but sometimes it was a bottle of hooch.

Porky was also an artist who worked with metal. One of his projects was the fashioning of heavy steel outline maps of Alaska out of pipe left over from the Alaska oil pipeline. He gave these as gifts to friends. He also made metal cutouts of moose, deer, and bears, which he placed in public locations around town, as a kind of guerrilla art project.

But Porky was best known as a prankster — a reputation he enjoyed even before the 1974 stunt. Some of his other pranks included using a backhoe to drop an entire tree in the middle of a friend’s driveway, placing plastic flamingoes in trees to confuse tour boats looking for wildlife, and holding a chainsaw sale at his store — one for the price of two! But it was the eruption of Mt. Edgecumbe that made him a legend throughout Alaska.

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In the 90's we added to his flamingo collection in Peril Strait outside of Sitka. Another guy and I put a dozen more and it looks like a huge flock of pink flamingos. Or did, think the Forest Svc got rid of them.

Used to tell cruise ship tourists they were a cold weather species of flamingo called "Pinkus Flamingus Walmarticus."