Woman in Texas killed by feral hogs

I just read about this. Holy fuck it's straight out of a horror movie. They bit her to death. They fucking ate her to death.

I hate when that happens.

Now I feel less guilty eating bacon.

What was on her iPod?

"Rip Her to Shreds" -- Blondie

mmmm sounds like a good meal, where's my fork and knife?

You forgot to ask what was playing on her iPod?

[quote]I cannot imagine a more horrible way to go.

I can.

We hope the precious (not so) little citizens were not harmed!

[quote] Woman in Texas killed by feral hogs

What was the Huckabee family doing in Texas?

Was she menstruating?

Pigs are the only farm animal that will eat you, bones and all.

Something must have scared them off if there was that much left of her.

The scene in Hanibal isn't that far from true. Also the scene in the beginning of the Wizard of Oz with Dorothy falling into the pig pen.

Pigs may be smart but the're filthy and dangerous.

Take the word of a former 4H kid.

They wanted her to suffer in some unimaginable way. They’re rather twisted, you know, always have been.

*they're* oops.

Interesting how the article calls it a “crime scene”. Animals can’t commit crimes.

This is like something out of Flannery O’Connor.

[quote]Animals can’t commit crimes.

Hear! Hear!

I feel better knowing those animals got something to eat. It's a shame they probably left hungry. When I think what animals must go through in the wild, it makes me cry. It's not like the world doesn't have enough old black ladies. It's the animals we must protect and love.

Maybe we can resurrect the pharmacist trampled to death and ask his opinion

How exactly do they kill? They descend upon prey as a group, like wolves?

The article said they could tell it was a pack of them because the bite marks were different sizes. How's that for a visual R19?

Imagine that moment you realise you're being rushed by a pack of feral hogs. And then the next moment after that when you realise there's absolutely nothing you can do about it because there's no way you could overpower them.

The article said that only six people have ever died in feral hog attacks in the US. This is so weird.

So they named hogs after Will Ferall?

OP, having your organs harvested by the Chinese while you're still alive and awake might be worse.

“I don’t wanna get eaten alive!”

I think I'd rather be eaten by a shark.

Can you imagine being attacked by this beast. It's a wild hogzilla this kid shot in Alabama.

That’s the Chrissy Metz of hogs at R27.

R27, that has to be a fake or doctored photo? And even if it's real, I don't think that tiny gun could fell such a beast..

[quote]I cannot imagine a more horrible way to go.

Maybe that Russian woman who was on the phone crying to her mother as a bear was eating her alive.

C’mon. She was walking along loudly eating a bag of Pork Rinds. We were taunted.

Where did these pigs come from? Did they escape from pig farms?

The hogs are a big problem. I seem to remember that they were issuing licenses to hunt them from helicopters.

Do they get hit by cars a lot? Or are they smart enough to stay away from the road?

“How exactly do they kill? They descend upon prey as a group”

Yes, Rose, like Hell’s Angels on their hogs.

R35, did they look like this?

This is clearly NOT a dollface thread. It's anti-dollface.

In France they make them into sausages.

[quote] that has to be a fake or doctored photo?

Nope, real. I remember seeing it in the news when that hog was killed. The thing weighed lbs.. Killed by an 11 year old boy.

Sorry for the Fox link, but it's the one I found.

But, but... I thought all pigs were cute and cuddly like Babe!

Old Irish saying: never make an enemy of a man who keeps pigs.

Can we cancel the impeachment? I have a better idea...

Why exactly can't the damn pack of feral hogs be hunted down and wiped out? With all the powerful weapons available it seems to me that a concerted effort to do that could get rid of them without a lot of trouble. So why isn't more being done about this?

watch the video I linked R44

Are they good eating? Why can't they be hunted? Too many hunting accidents?

[quote] The thing weighed lbs

More than one pound?

[quote]The article said that only six people have ever died in feral hog attacks in the US.

Well, someone's getting eggroll!

R36, I think they looked like this.

People shoot and eat them all the time. The first time I visited my mother after she moved to central Florida, my sister and I turned the corner onto her block and saw about 20 vultures fly into the air. Then theywent back to what they were doing - eating a pig carcass. The hunters kill the pigs, butcher them and throw away the carcass (skin, rib cage, etc). The vultures eat what’s left. By the time I drove by there on the way to the airport to fly home there was nothing left,

And here I thought we had scary wild animals in California...

We have the countless homeless in California.

America is a dangerous place in more ways than one.

As far as I know there's not a single animal that can kill you in England.

There was also a tortoise that would go into that corner of woods to dine on some pig. I’m pretty sure it was the same tortoise that would go to my aunt’s house on the same block and eat her dog’s poop from the backyard.

Nature’s quicker-picker-uppers.

Why don’t they shoot all of those nasty feral pigs if they’re that dangerous?

We're damn sure trying!

[quote]Why don’t they shoot all of those nasty feral pigs if they’re that dangerous?

Because there are MILLIONS of them.

R57 The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step!

Really, millions of wild hogs? Where did they originate from? Escaped from a pig farm? This is the first time I've heard of wild hogs although I live in California where the only thing roaming wild are people....

[quote][R57] The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step! —Start shooting!

If you bothered to WATCH the video I linked these questions are all answered.

People DO shoot them. But it barely dents the population.

They are NOT native to America, they were imported for food.

The ecological system is in far more fairer from other introduced pests like Burmese pythons, snakeheads, nutria, tegus.

Far more danger, nor fairer

That big giant motherfucker was a feral hog and domestic pig hybrid.

R60 I’m not retired like you gramps, so I can’t always watch videos at the drop of a hat.

[quote]The ecological system is in far more fairer from other introduced pests like Burmese pythons

Oh, dear.

[quote][R60] I’m not retired like you gramps, so I can’t always watch videos at the drop of a hat.

But have a super-busy life posting on DL. Oh, to be young and gay today!

[quote] Why don’t they shoot all of those nasty feral pigs if they’re that dangerous?

That's not a very nice way to talk about Texans.

Feral hogs? Learn something new every day.

Im in north florida and we had an invasion of them a few years ago. They tore my 2 acre yard to shreds and my neighbors yards as well. Between all of us we killed 15,and there were many more than that. Ive lived in rural and semi rural places quite a bit of my life and Ive never seen anything like that. Once a pigs nuts drop the meat is inedible .Least thats what the old folks always said.

Early Spanish explorers probably were the first to introduce hogs in Texas over 300 years ago. As colonization increased, hog numbers subsequently increased. They provided an important source of cured meat and lard for settlers.

During the fight for Texas independence as people fled for safety into the United States or Mexico, many hogs escaped or were released. It was not until the mid 1800s when hostilities between the United States and Mexico ended that settlers once again began bringing livestock back into Texas. The livestock included hogs that ranged freely. Many escaped, contributing to the feral population.

In the 1930s, European wild hogs, "Russian boars," were first imported and introduced into Texas by ranchers and sportsmen for sport hunting. Most of these eventually escaped from game ranches and began free ranging and breeding with feral hogs. Because of this crossbreeding, there are very few, if any, true European hogs remaining in Texas.

Feral hogs are unprotected, exotic, non-game animals. Therefore, they may be taken by any means or methods at any time of year. There are no seasons or bag limits, however a hunting license and landowner permission are required to hunt them

[quote]Why exactly can't the damn pack of feral hogs be hunted down and wiped out?

they're much more evasive than school kids. too much effort, lot easier just to drive the pickup to the local school and pop a few

Thank you for your information, feral hog expert.

There are 1.5 million feral hogs in Texas.

Just to clarify - these feral hogs aren't boars? Do you have wild boars in America?

Porcine peril - Italian city of Genoa permits shooting of wild boar as they become ever bolder

I see now they're a nuisance everywhere.

fascinating videos on Youtube

Smack smack

Cordell....

[quote]Porcine Peril

That's the title of my autobiography sorted, then.

Wild boar makes for a delicious ragu.

R74, domesticated swine when feral revert to forms (crazy, I know) resembling their pre-domestication size, habits and defensive viciousness.

They are not "wild boars." Some are boars, of course, by being male. But they are "feral hogs" here in the USA.

The terminology is used interchangeably. But something that is "wild" is not something that is "feral," generally. The former concerns species representatives that have never been domesticated. The latter concerns descendants of formerly domesticated stock that has gone native.

The difference is important, because the social behavior, as well as the genetic makeup, of feral hogs is not the same as the close-knit, organized structures of wild boars (the term is used for both males and females). A sounder of feral hogs usually holds a couple of sows and their young and their relationships with boars are not consistent in the group. A sounder of wild hogs, or wild boars, or wild swine (whatever you prefer to call them) includes a dominant boar who takes the lead in defenses and a group of sows who protect the young.

All swine sows are aggressively defensive of their piglets, and even though they will flop down and smash them to death and ignore their squealing under them, if anything else comes around and a piglet squeals, they become very fierce and dangerous.

R74, domesticated swine when feral revert to forms (crazy, I know) resembling their pre-domestication size, habits and defensive viciousness.

They are not "wild boars." Some are boars, of course, by being male. But they are "feral hogs" here in the USA.

The terminology is used interchangeably. But something that is "wild" is not something that is "feral," generally. The former concerns species representatives that have never been domesticated. The latter concerns descendants of formerly domesticated stock that has gone native.

The difference is important, because the social behavior, as well as the genetic makeup, of feral hogs is not the same as the close-knit, organized structures of wild boars (the term is used for both males and females). A sounder of feral hogs usually holds a couple of sows and their young and their relationships with boars are not consistent in the group. A sounder of wild hogs, or wild boars, or wild swine (whatever you prefer to call them) includes a dominant boar who takes the lead in defenses and a group of sows who protect the young.

All swine sows are aggressively defensive of their piglets, and even though they will flop down and smash them to death and ignore their squealing under them, if anything else comes around and a piglet squeals, they become very fierce and dangerous.

And don't fuck with the cows.

Chrissy Metz's publicists have issued a statement that Chrissy was nowhere near Texas at the time this incident occurred.

We have yet to hear from James Corden' s camp.

Team hog!

I always thought of this as a Hill Country problem rather than an Anahuac problem. Then again, I hardly ever think about Anahuac.

She died from a couple piglet nibbles? What a loser!

[quote] More than one pound?

Sorry, it weighed over 1000 lbs.

SHE WAS DEVOURED!!!!

Texas has a huge problem with feral hogs. Packs of them will descend on suburban yards, tear down fences and destroy landscaping and grass. They are active at night and are very agressive. I've heard hunters talk about them felling the beasts mere yards aways and charging towards them. They will chase you down. This woman arrived at dusk and probably innocently came upon them startling them so they charged.

In the trapping videos I posted they seem skittish, smart, and very strong. Nasty. Why not hire professionals and hunt their numbers way way down. I guess USA does not have the will for public works.

R91 I don’t get it either. Considering ‘Merica loves it’s guns, it could actually make the gun freaks useful for once in their lives.

[quote] I don’t get it either. Considering ‘Merica loves it’s guns, it could actually make the gun freaks useful for once in their lives.

For God's sake, this is exactly what they do do. Gun freaks come from all over America and shoot them from helicopters.

If you WATCH the video I posted all these questions are answered.

How did there get to be "millions" of them? How can a problem like that, FERAL HOGS for God's sake, be so ignored that it gets to that point? I think this woman's death should be a wake up call; the feral hogs have GOT TO GO. This is a problem that needs to be addressed and soon. Do more people have to die for something to be done about it?

r94 Christ on a stick, if you'd only WATCH the video posted by r93, all of that is revealed. This is getting quite ridiculous now. 😅

[quote]It was not until the mid 1800s when hostilities between the United States and Mexico ended that settlers once again began bringing livestock back into Texas. The livestock included hogs that ranged freely.

I didn’t know they can live that long. Fascinating.

R95, so is that why they need AK-47s?

R93 are you new here? Most eldergays do not do back-up reading or watching on provided links. Pulease!

Yeah but R93 did. Just watch the damn video about helicopter hunting them in Texas. And Texas Game & Wildlife says the young ones are delicious to eat and the meat is leaner.

My friend was on I-95 in Central Florida and had one run right in front of her SUV at night and totaled it.

Wild hogs are far more agile and much stronger than farm hogs. They have longer legs and their bodies are basically nothing but muscle. They're mean and dangerous because they have to fend for themselves for food. Farmer Joe isn't showing up 3 times a day with a bucket of slop for them. They'll eat anything and a group of them can literally destroy acres of foliage in a few days so they end up having to start killing other animals for nourishment.

They also breed like rabbits. For every one someone kills 50 are born and since there are 5 million of the things in the US and upwards of 2 million in the southeast and 1.5 million in Texas. Having open season for the beasts isn't going to do a lot of damage to their numbers.

R92, just tell the redneck locals that the hogs are all muslims, and ISIS sympathizers. 90% of the hogs will be dead within a week.

That is the best picture of Melania since she became First Lady! Stunning!

[quote]My friend was on I-95 in Central Florida

I-95 doesn't run through Central Florida, but up the eastern mainland.

Well it seems like a source of food so II don't see why we don't get to shooting! Do people not want to eat them? Sanglier is accepted meat in France and Switzerland. But yeah, usually a ragout.

Just DIE already! Oh, wait...

Ironically, her last meal was chicharrones and carnitas.

It's sad that people have stopped hunting. Our ecosystem is getting all fucked up because we were meant to be apex predators of the wild environment, not Costco.

It seems like the alligators could eat the hogs. Why are the alligators so fucking lazy? Or do we need more of them?

R108, my sister goes hunting for food and discounts at Costco. Does that count?

I find it amusing that we had one post here calling the poster of the video “gramps” because they didn’t have time to watch the video and another one complaining that the “elder gays” don’t bother to watch posted videos.

Now I know the three posts were probably posted by at most two participants. But age shade sure does get the blood boiling round here something fierce.

[quote} OP: I cannot imagine a more horrible way to go.

It's much like venturing into any of the Broadway threads here at Data Lounge.

I watched the goddamn video. And all it says is that the hogs are being hunted (shot, trapped, etc.) but that there are still millions of them. Well, I suppose getting every last one would be next to impossible but it's obvious that not enough is being done about the problem. A lot more needs to be done stem the population, which it would seem, is ever increasing.

Payback for eating all that bacon at IHOP.

Give every man a rifle and promise them $100 a pig and watch how fast those pigs pile up . Then again,we are battling against (and losing) anocandas in florida,so who am I to judge ?

The part of the video I thought was creepiest was seeing so many crammed into small cages all climbing on top of each other. It looked evil.

Why not train the Mexican immigrants as trappers and hunters and let them market the meat. Maybe they could come up with some good recipes and open a special chain of BBQ restaurants.

In Texas, we eat BEEF barbeque. Not pork.

That kid is going to look just like that hog after he eats the 700 lbs of sausage he plans to make from it.

Is this about feral hogs or Deplorables, its so hard to tell them apart.

This happened in a part of the country where “fish-cleaning station” is a real-estate selling point.

I’m a little scared

[quote]I-95 doesn't run through Central Florida, but up the eastern mainland.

Oh, OK

[quote]we were meant to be apex predators of the wild environment, not Costco.

Well, we'll just see on Friday who gets that last $700 Vizio 70-inch 4K LED LCD TV, won't we?

What about the hog in the White House? He gets a free pass?

R15. I love Flannery O'Connor. Revelation and A Good Man is Hard to Find. My undergraduate Critical analysis English class studied her work.

Wouldn't it be crazy if that woman's name was Mrs. Turpin?

Where was Chrissy Metz when this occurred..just say in..

r105 Ain't nobody got the time to chew on all that muscle. 🤢

Armadillos are a problem in the south, but they don’t eat people.

One more reason to never visit Florida and Texas.

Funniest thread title. Love it.

Hopefully that fatty in r27 photo will end up the same way as the innocent creature he murdered.

Here ya go.

From the film EVILSPEAK, a male-ish version of Carrie with Clint Howard, Ron's brother. You also get a glimpse of Heywood Nelson's (Dwayne from What's Happening?" nice bubble butt.

[quote]Pigs are the only farm animal that will eat you, bones and all.

I know, right?

Not necessarily, r29. When I grew up in the 70s, we went to "pig roasts," where the main coarse was a wild boar that wasn't much smaller than that thing.

[quote]You also get a glimpse of Heywood Nelson's (Dwayne from What's Happening?" nice bubble butt.

If you want a good history on wild hogs, Freakonomics did a podcast a month back or so.

The Spanish brought them as a food source. They multiply rapidly. Shooting them/placing a bounty has encouraged some to breed and release them.

I could go for some bacon right now.

Th7at was the first thing I was told about farm animals, " Stay away from the hogs."

[quote]I could go for some bacon right now.

This thread could put me off for life.

[quote] Wild boar makes for a delicious ragu.

What about human-fed wild boar? Does that make a more delicious ragu?

[quote]Well, I suppose getting every last one would be next to impossible but it's obvious that not enough is being done about the problem. A lot more needs to be done stem the population, which it would seem, is ever increasing.

I agree with everyone about killing them all. Just like the feral cat population in Australia. They shoot hundreds a night with bows and arrows and they don’t even make a dent. Kill them all! 🐱🐷🐈

They can't poison them or they'll end up poisoning the good guys as well.

It's a tough call.

And what makes pigs the bad guys?

[quote] I-95 doesn't run through Central Florida, but up the eastern mainland.

Central Florida doesn't refer just to the inland center of the state. It is the central 3rd of the state from coast to coast.

[quote] In France they make them into sausages.

Mon dieu, ze ones wheech have jhust eaten human flesh, zhey are SUPERB!

Word is they raped her first..

deplorable prosciutto

R104 the region is called Central Florida and I-95 certainly does run through it, I lived there for 30 years. This specifically happened in Melbourne, a little north of Palm Bay in Brevard County.

Also meant to say you are an insufferable know-it-all asshole R104.

Lastly for R104.

[quote]where the main coarse was a wild boar

Oh Dear! how uncivilized

R151 I was going to say we did that already R151, at R145. But R104 deserved to have his know-nothing know-it-allness pointed out twice.

A metaphor for why I left my last job.

I can't stop following this thread.

It HAS NOT been a pleasurable experience.

But who am I to complain?...that POOR woman!

It's happening all over the globe!

I heard they went really HOG wild on her. It's a shame because this lady's co-workers all agree, she was a real HAM who lifted everybody's spirits.

[quote]Erna

Cunt!

Oh, dearing myself for use of "coarse" where it should have read "course."

As I mentioned before, parts of Ohio have plenty of bigass hogs/boars/whichever running through the woods. I tasted my first beer, courtesy of my Uncle Bill, at a pig roast. It was odd that our dad took us to it, because he was against hunting. Perhaps he made an exception because deer rarely go out of their way to attack people, unlike hogs.

If we run out of meat, we will have plenty of wild pig.

[quote] he made an exception because deer rarely go out of their way to attack people,

sort of

So these are different from the cute, pink, farm pigs, or are they farm pigs that became wild?

No, I think they're distant cousins to the pink pigs we all love.

Pigs, wild pigs, and feral hogs are descendants of a common ancestor - the Eurasian wild boar. Feral hogs are those that originated from domestic breeds but may be the result of a few or many, many generations in the wild. Eurasians and domestics gone feral are largely the same species and therefore will interbreed with no problems resulting in all sorts of “hybrids” between the 2 groups.

As adjectives the difference between middle and central is that middle is located in the middle; in between while central is being in the center.

Ergo, Plant City, Lakeland, Winter Haven, Kissimmee are in Central Florida while Tampa, St Pete, Clearwater, Daytona, (and the other beach cities) are mid-coastal. between North and South Florida. In fact, there is a bank chain called Mid-Florida.

Suck on that Anita Bryant.

I've literally never had any interest in hunting in my life. But reading about these boars legit makes me want to go out and hunt some.

Poor woman.

Wild boar in China comes out of nowhere and opens can of whoopass on villagers in completely unprovoked attack

^That womn was dumb as fuck. Why repeatedly run out on the icy road in front of an enraged animal, then stand there on your phone while it's still around?

The guy in the vid who was knocked down first was elderly and later died. The woman on the phone was his daughter-in-law. The police ended up having to snipe the pig from afar.

take action

[quote] Wild boar in China comes out of nowhere and opens can of whoopass on villagers in completely unprovoked attack

Sorry, you're wrong about that. I had my reasons.

^^^^^ Reason #1: Sweet

Reason #2: Sour

Don't even get me started on the fried rice.

Damn. What a way to go. Sad

Nice to see humans getting what they give.

What a freakish thing to happen. Sounds like something right out of a horror movie.

Storms and flooding have contributed to the problem. Farmers cannot take livestock with them when they flee rising water. Hogs, cattle, poultry and horses may be freed so they have a chance to fend for themselves. Horses and cattle are likely to be recovered, but hogs and dogs may end up feral.

Good for the animals.