Just saw the following making the rounds of the newspapers, and it was too good not to share it with the Hog Blog readers: 

Note to self: Taser no good on wild boars

 

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

(10-15) 14:32 PDT Brooksville, Fla. (AP) –Information from: St. Petersburg Times, www.sptimes.com

While normally effective on people, a Hernando deputy learned the hard way that Taser stun guns do not work very well on wild boars.

The sheriff’s office reported that Deputy Joseph Tibor responded to complaints of an “extremely large pig” tearing up a resident’s yard in a Brooksville neighborhood Tuesday morning. He quickly found a 450-pound boar rooting up shrubbery and threatening a water fountain.

The animal then flashed his tusks toward onlookers. Tibor tried to stop it with his Taser, but the 50,000 volts had no effect on the animal.

The boar was eventually corralled into a neighbor’s trailer.

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I really love the line, “The animal then flashed his tusks toward onlookers.”

Since a big boar’s tusks are generally exposed, it’s pretty hard for him NOT to flash them.  It’s kinda like saying a deer “flashed his antlers” at onlookers, you know?  But hey, what’s a good news article without a little sensationalism.  That boar was an imminent danger and non-lethal force had to be used!  (My eyes can’t roll any further up in my head right now.) 

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