BOULDER, Colo. -- Slick, the concrete pig that talks to patrons leaving a barbeque restaurant, has been rendered voiceless by a furious pit bull terrier.

'Slick was severely wounded last night,' a laughing Don Ray, owner of Oh, Carolina! Pit Barbeque, said Friday.


'That dog went nuts and went straight for the thrort. In 30 seconds, he had ripped Slick's speaker and wooden frame to shreds.'

Ray said a woman was walking the dog past the restaurant at the precise time the sensor on the exit door was activated.

After 6 to 8 grunts and snorts, Slick, a 1,500-pound, black and white piece of concrete, gives out with the message 'Step a little closer and let me boar you for a while.'

Ray said he was in the back of the restaurant and the incident was over before he reached the front door. He said the woman and her dog were gone.

The speaker was on the ground, 'teeth marks and all,' he said.