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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 …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Woman trapped in tree by pigs

    I expect she was an angry bird

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    2 legs good, 4 legs better?

    Or: Eat them b4 they eat u?

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Linux

    When wild animals, go wild!!!!

    It is much worse than you realize! Animals, have learnt to hide there true identities. This news just in....

    Robin Hooded attacked unsuspecting banker, in his mansion. Gives money back to the tax payers!

    GreekGeek :-)

  4. Havin_it

    Sad sign of the times

    This predatory boar situation is a direct effect of the decline in the local menhir delivery trade.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Simple really

    As we established previously, the Scottish woman was only attacked because she was foolishly wearing antlers in a region where Lidl has started stocking reindeer meat. Presumably the French woman in question was sporting tusks and curly tail.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Sexist pigs!

    Germaine Greer was right all along.

  7. Mike 140
    Pirate

    But what about ...

    .. the most feared of all those symbols of Christmas - The Brussel Sprout?

    1. TeeCee Gold badge
      Coat

      Re: But what about.

      Why don't you ask that nice Mr Assange how he feels about that Brussels construct, the EU arrest warrant he got for Christmas?

      I think I'd rather have the reindeer and boars meself.....

    2. Steve X
      Thumb Up

      Brussels Sproutes

      Actually sprouts are the only thing coming out of Brussels that I don't mind paying for. Very tasty if picked after the first frost, cooked al-dente, and served with butter & some flaked almonds.

  8. David Lester

    Add Pheasant ...

    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.

  9. Hans Upp

    Shocking situation

    I can sympathise with this woman.

    I've had many occasions when I've tried unsuccessfully to get away from some terrible bores in France, and I can tell you it drove me wild.

  10. Daniel B.
    Black Helicopters

    Revenge of the Christmas animals?

    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'?

  11. Steve X

    Ils sont fou, ces Savoyards.

    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...

    1. AlistairJ
      Pint

      This says more

      About the quality of French totty than anything else. Or perhaps something to do with the availability of properly made kebabs in that area of the country. Or possibly both ..?

  12. jake Silver badge

    Why the cost of the chopper?

    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 ;-)

  13. Anonymous John

    On the first day of Christmas,

    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

  14. Stu 18
    Happy

    Of course

    We all know that all of Gaul was conquered, apart from one small herd still holding out against the invaders.

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Obligatory Pratchett quote

    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.

  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Oh La La

    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!

  17. Daedalus

    Viens Obelix!

    On va chasser les sangliers!!

    1. Chika
      Happy

      These Gauls are Mad

      Personally, I thought the article was something of a boar...

  18. Scorchio!!
    Happy

    Hawheehawheehaw

    Zere I was, eeenspecting my Xmas deener, when it started trying to baht ma derriere! So I ran up a tree and called for an officer of the lieaw.

  19. LinkOfHyrule
    Coat

    Daily Mail headline...

    Will illegal French immigrant pigs march along Channel Tunnel and attack YOUR family?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Mistype

      "Will illegal French immigrant pigs march along Channel Tunnel and attack YOUR family?"

      Should surely be

      "Illegal French immigrant pigs will march along Channel Tunnel and attack YOUR family!"

  20. mhenriday
    Thumb Up

    (Metaphorical) chickens

    coming home to roost ?...

    Henri

  21. Anonymous Coward
    Big Brother

    Oh noes!

    Soon there's be reports about reindeer running over little old ladies all over the world!

  22. Lyle Dietz
    Badgers

    Forget the machines

    We'll be killed by the Rise of the Animals before the Rise of the Machines prototype is finished.

  23. Anonymous John

    Not a wild animal but vaguely on theme.

    "German police seize marijuana Christmas tree"

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101208/od_afp/germanycrimedrugschristmasoffbeat_20101208170341

  24. Colin Miller

    boar seeks revenge at butcher's

    In Koblenz, Western Germany, a boar wandered into a butcher's shop, and then trashed it in an hour-long wrecking spree.

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/4432063/Boar-comes-out-wurst-off

  25. LC
    Alert

    Not quite Stilton cheese...

    But I was once attacked by some Danish Blue when my husband decided to get creative with cheese on toast. It chased me right out of the kitchen.

  26. Anonymous Coward
    Welcome

    I'm the first?

    I for one welcome our new tasty animal overlords. (Sits at table with napkin and knife and fork in hands).

  27. Mike 140
    Pirate

    But what about ....

    ... that most feared of the symbols of Christmas - The Brussel Sprout?

  28. Anonymous Coward
    Badgers

    "Attacked" by Boars?

    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.

  29. Alex, Leeds
    Pint

    Robin meat

    I didn't know robins were tasty - I guess they probably are but imagine there isn't much too them. Swans - I thought that was illegal...or is it just for a certain type of swan?

  30. laird cummings
    Coat

    Auto-correct..?

    "...snuffling Gallic boars.."?

    Are you *sure* you didn't mean "snuffling Gallic boors?" Who else would tree a bird whilst she takes a constitutional?

  31. The main man

    I was once attacked by a goat

    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

  32. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    were the pigs of the animal/human kind?

    were the pigs of the animal/human kind?

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