[Radio4] Wild Boar

[dancefloorlandmine]

From Radio 4's Shadows on the Landscape series ...

"Are wild boars dangerous?"
"Well, I don't know of anyone who's been attacked by one, and I've been doing this work for seven years. Like any animal, they can get a bit fed up if you start firing bullets at them, but otherwise they always run."

Comments

[tallarn.livejournal.com]

Note to self: Don't fire bullets at wild boar. :)

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

They're pernicious buggers too. You can run them through with a spear (apparently) and they keep coming at you. That's why old boar hunting spears had a square wooden plate across the base so there was a bit of a barrier. Like that would help a lot.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Or alternatively a foot-long lenth of iron placed crosswise through the shaft (which was usually about two inches thick). That did tend to help. As long as you could keep hold of your end of the spear with a boar kebab-ed on the other end.

Then again, they only tended to charge when given no option (or wounded, say by sticking a spearhead into them ... [grin])

Back to (course)work ... but at least I'm getting somewhere ...

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Amazing the daft things we know isn't it?

Hope you're doing okay over there darlin'.

*kiss*

[rabhairt.livejournal.com]

i find wild BORES much more terrifying (and they are common in urban areas), shooting at them isn't really an option...

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Well, not where there are witnesses ... although if you have a silencer ... [grin]

Erm ... I'll just get rid of some of my overposting today, then ...

[rabhairt.livejournal.com]

i rather like your ramblings...i wouldn't read them if i didn't. anyway i tend to ignore the bores and hope they go away if i stay. very. still. it works for tigers too, at least i was told to stand still and not look it in the eye if it charged at me...the things that happen to me at work--like i am going to be able to look down modestly while a 400lb tiger charges me...!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Wow! A job where you can be charged by tigers! Wow! Erm ... I think I'll just be staying behind my desk.