The talk on the lips of residents of Old Harbour, St Catherine, is the fate of an infamous beggar who was punished in a rather unusual way by jerk pork vendors.

The man, who the vendors say was fast becoming a nuisance, was fed a meal of jerked sow privates - surely one he won't soon forget.

The incident took place close to Old Harbour approximately two weeks ago and still has residents talking. "All now him can't chew the piece of 'special' meat," one vendor joked when The WEEKEND Star asked him about it. "That is how him realise that a deh so him get fi eat."

Another woman in giving a rather comical description of the incident said: "Mi see him bite the meat and start to stretch it but him couldn't get fi eat it."

After realising the joke being played on him and after facing non-stop ridicule, the beggar was left feeling ashamed and no doubt, still hungry. "Him must learn fi stop beg meat. Next time it might be worse," the woman said.

Efforts to contact the beggar were unsuccessful, but word reaching The WEEKEND Star is that he has vowed never to beg pork again.