French woman chased up tree by wild pigs, rescued by copter A French woman was set upon by a herd of wild pigs on Monday, only escaping from them by clambering up a tree, from which she was later plucked by a rescue helicopter. The woman was walking near the town of Bagnères-de-Luchon in the southwest of the country, The Telegraph reports, when she was startled by the pack of snuffling …
Typical porcine behaviour; boar are viscious buggers when they're defending their young.
Still to add to you list: pheasants...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1257522/?page=1
This is from a memorable Xmas special BMJ issue (1987); they used to reserve their strangest articles for the holiday period.
Back in the late 80's, a local radio station would do a radio play thingy called "El Pavo Asesino" (The Killer Turkey), who is fed up with humans eating turkey on Xmas and decides to feed on humans this Christmas Eve.
Could it be that the next killer animal will be that infamous 'John Blood Turkey'?
Maybe it heard about the calf pinched by two drunks leaving a disco at the weekend:
http://www.ledauphine.com/haute-savoie/2010/12/06/emeches-les-deux-fetards-volent-un-veau-et-le-ramenent-chez-eux-pour-la-nuit
They woke up the next morning wondering why there was a calf in their apartment, having forgotten that on leaving the disco they put their new "pet", lifted from a nearby farm, into their car and took it home.
Solution? They dropped it off at the nearest animal shelter (RSPCA-equivalent). Then went home to clean, I suppose...
A couple cheap bullets & it'd be bacon sarnies all 'round, after suitable curing time! I almost always have various bits of wild boar[1][2] in the deep-freeze and hanging, smoked and/or salted ... them boys is seriously good eating.
[1] Actually a cross between European wild boar & domestic pigs, although they look more like the wild varietal than domestic ... Released for hunting purposes in the late 1880s, they have become a major pest in some parts of the mountains of central California.
[2] I don't hunt anymore ... Killing wild pigs is varminting, not hunting. Doesn't mean I can't eat 'em after I shoot 'em, though ;-)
my true love sent to me
A crazed reindeer in a pear tree.
On the second day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Two snuffling Gallic boars
And a crazed reindeer in a pear tree.
On the third day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A three-strong gang of deer
Two snuffling Gallic boars
And a crazed reindeer in a pear tree.
TBC
This wasn't the little piggy that went to market, or the little piggy that stayed at home. It would be quite hard to imagine what kind of foot would have a piggy like this, but it would probably be the kind that also had hair and scales and toenails like cashew nuts.
This piggy was the size of a pony. This piggy had tusks. And it wasn't pink. It was a blue-black colour and covered with sharp hair but it did have - let's be fair, thought Colon - little red piggy eyes.
This little piggy looked like the little piggy that killed the boarhounds, disembowelled the horse and ate the huntsman.
Nous voulons playmobil des sangliers et les Français Lady s'il vous plaît, avec un hélicoptère français et des gendarmes.
Les verrats peuvent être très importants, causant de grands dommages à votre voiture, il est donc préférable de conduire dans le pays sur un tracteur.
Les sangliers sont très savoureux, si un peu poilue!
I think the boars are the victim of a press smear campaign.
The article says the woman stumbled across them and then in fear of an attack got up a tree and subsequently got stuck. No word of any actual attack.
There's a joke somewhere about French surrendering at the slightest thing, but I'm not telling it.
I am not making this up. It was my fault because i had disturbed the female goat with her young and the male goat (ram) with large horns came after me. He trapped me against the tree and tried to gnore me to death but i found the strenght to hold on to its horn and fight him off. I lifted him by the horns and threw him on the ground and he ran away. That was a scary moment
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