http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/texas-senate-passes-pork-choppers-hunting-bill-1468938.html
The bill would allow coyotes and wild hogs to be hunted from rented seats on helicopters.
Edit: Didn't realize that people didn't know this is a real problem. These things are getting gigantic and people have been attacked unprovoked.
http://panews.com/outdoors/x681446177/Wild-hog-attacks-rare-but-scary
The bill would allow coyotes and wild hogs to be hunted from rented seats on helicopters.
Edit: Didn't realize that people didn't know this is a real problem. These things are getting gigantic and people have been attacked unprovoked.
http://panews.com/outdoors/x681446177/Wild-hog-attacks-rare-but-scary
There are numerous accounts of hunters (usually hunting hogs with dogs) getting hooked by a boar. While bowhunting for hogs on the 4X Ranch south of San Antonio I met a man that had 83 stitches on his left leg after a hog got hold of him in a cactus thicket while running it with dogs a few years previous. I have since lost track of the man, but I will never forget seeing his scars.
In one instance, a boar attacked a woman on a Fort Worth jogging trail. Two years ago, a Cherokee County deer hunter died from a feral hog attack.
The Benton County Daily Record chronicled a wild boar that, attacked and flipped a utility vehicle on a job site in Waco and severely injured a Gentry man.
http://www.wesh.com/news/27626367/detail.htmlIn 2004, the Associated Press reported, A Florida Gulf Coast University student is suing the college for failing to control wild boars on campus.
Donna Rodriguez said in a lawsuit filed yesterday that a wild boar chased her on campus in October 2004, causing her to fall and suffer serious injuries. The suit claims the school knew the boars were a hazard and its failure to control them resulted in an unreasonably dangerous condition.
MELBOURNE, Fla. -- A wild hog attacked two people on Mathers Street in Melbourne before it was captured Thursday.
Investigators said the hog was just one of three wild pigs that residents said have been chasing people in the area near U.S. Highway 1 and Aurora Road.
The area is not considered rural; it is a suburban neighborhood near the center of Melbourne. Residents said they're amazed that the pigs are running wild there.