“Kill the pig! Kill the pig!” the boys in “Lord of the Flies” shout as they attack the wild pig on the island they have been stranded on.

In Island Lake, if the authorities could get away with it, they would probably going after prospective pig farmer Bob Wargaski with sharp sticks.

With a permit expected to be issued any day by the Illinois Agriculture Department to rural Island Lake resident Wargaski, Village President Tom Hyde has signed off on seeking an injunction against the pig farmer.

File by Village Attorney Scott Puma, a motion for a preliminary injunction was filed Tuesday in Lake County Circuit Court.

It points out that Island Lake has received a permit from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency “to construct a community water supply well” and that the “proposed pig farm will be located within 400 feet of said well.”

That would violate the EPA Act, the legal paper asserts.

“Wagarski has put his self-interest in front of that of all the residents of the Village of Island Lake,” the legal papers continue. And, the “only reason for locating a pig farm in his front yard is to prevent the Village from establishing a water well on property near his property.”

Attorney Puma claims that Wargaski will not be hurt because he doesn’t have pigs on his land yet, but that the village will be “irreparably injured,” if he is allowed to proceed.

Wagarski has emailed me the 2005 emails you see below. (Click to enlarge.)

It seems to say that the reason the well was placed so close to Wagarski’s farm was to allow a developer to build expensive houses on a hill that would have been more appropriate.

Wagarski’s cover email said,

“…the developer did not want this in his front yard because it will devalue his homes. So mayor moved it. Water is for this developer Teegan.

“Also in the the annexation agreement for Covered Bridge Teegan paid off village because they decided to move it across the street on a different sub-division that is coming, Teegan didn’t like that either so he paid the village the difference is construction costs they would have saved and put it back by me.“

This is going to be a great day to be in court, don’t you think?

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The scenes are from the original 1963 black and white movie of William Golding’s book “Lord of the Flies.” It was one of the few movies that I have thought was on a par with the book upon which it was based. The little pig farm is in a little town just over the Wisconsin border. The man in the black hat is Bob Wargaski.