The Dividing Pig

Really glad this was on 1A of the Tampa Bay Times.

Will Hobson: LARGO — This was never just about the pig, the neighbors say, but the pig was a problem.

Last March a loud, large, shaggy-haired man named Bernie Lodico moved into Bay Ranch Mobile Home Park. A few months later he brought Kojak, his blind, 300-pound pet pig.

Largo law bars livestock in residential areas. And Kojak stank, some neighbors say. Management sent Lodico a letter.

"It is our understanding that you have a pot belly pig living in your back yard," wrote park manager Cliff Wicks on Sept. 26. "This is not allowed. Please place the pig somewhere else."

Lodico replied with a letter from a psychiatrist at James A. Haley VA Medical…