[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

[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*