[at-l] wild pig attack

[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark)]

thar's a bunch of them wild bares runnin loose around Joyce Kilmer
Memorial Forest in the fer reaches of western NC - when I tramp around
in them parts in the winner time I'm not right sure whether I fear more
them russkie wild pigs, vs the locals who hunt 'em! :)

thru-thinker

L. Parker wrote:

> Ah suppose ah shuld set you all to rites about feral pigs...
>
> Thar be two types of them critters, thar is your common ordinary feral pig,
> this is jus a pig whats got loose from a farm sumwhere.
>
> Then thar be the other kind. It seems that way back when, some southern
> Gentlemen took a fancy to some huntin tales told by furiners, don't know
> rightly but I think they wuz from Russia or some such place. Now, in them
> thar tales, they talked about a 'bare which ifn I understand rightly is
> called a "boar" if you don' live in Dixie. Now, 'bares (or boar) are kinda
> like pigs, 'cept they are a whole lot bigger, angrier and nastier than pigs.
> Why I believe a bare would as soon et you as look at you.
>
> Anyways, these southern Gentlemen took it upon themselves to import sum of
> these bare to Dixie with the intent of huntin them. Course, some go these
> bare promptly escaped and have been having themselves a pig in a wallow of a
> time ever since.
>
> Now if you live down here in Dixie, you know there ain't no bag limit on
> bare (or pigs either for that matter) and they is a bigger pest than ticks
> on a hound dog.
>
> Lee I Joe
>
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