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Sunday, March 16, 2014

California town can't figure out how to get rid of wild pigs terrorizing populace; North Carolina man can

Yet another element of the Carolina/California divide, I guess. In San Jose, California, feral pigs apparently are rampaging through town, causing lots of damage and scaring the shit out of people:
The feral pigs have acclimated to residential neighborhoods in northern California, damaging property and threatening the safety of homeowners, according to ABC News station KGO-TV in San Francisco.
City officials apparently acknowledge that the pigs are a safety threat, but, as you might expect in California, aren't actually willing to do anything to solve the problem. Instead, apparently, they issued a memo:
Officials from the city of San Jose have issued a manual to help residents manage the problem, saying more aggressive measures to control the population are impractical, dangerous or illegal.
"It is difficult and costly to have a lasting impact on the pig populations in this area through trapping or hunting," they write in the manual. "It is illegal to relocate pigs … it is dangerous to the community to hunt pigs."
The city says the most effective way for homeowners to get rid of the pigs is to put up low, sturdy fences in their yards. Other recommendations include using chemicals to rid lawns of bugs on which the pigs feed and putting up motion detectors to scare them away with lights or sound.
I admit, given the price of ammunition these days -- any decent variation of a .30 caliber round costs nearly a buck a pop, be it .30-06, .308, .303, .30-30, .307 or whatever -- if you have a lot of pigs, you could run up a pretty good ammunition bill. San Jose apparently prefers to save its money for public employee pensions instead of actually serving the public. Telling its citizens that it can't really do anything about this, the city instead puts the burden on residents and tells them to build a fence or apply other, costly, you-pay-for-it solutions and call the fence idea "the most effective way for homeowners to get rid of the pigs."

The problem, of course, is that doesn't get rid of the pigs. It just keeps them out of your yard, should you spend the money to build a "low, sturdy" fence. That doesn't mean there won't be a pissed off pig standing in your driveway in the morning looking to kick your ass. It just means he didn't root up your backyard first. And if you think pigs aren't dangerous, quit thinking about Wilbur from Charlotte's Web or Arnold from Green Acres and starting thinking about "Razorback." For those of you not familiar with that Australian masterpiece starring Arkie Whitely (best know for her part as the hot blonde in The Road Warrior), here's a taste:


Anyway, wild pigs really can be dangerous. It does not surprise me that a bunch of California bureaucrats can't figure out how to get rid of some wild pigs. On the other hand, it also does not surprise me that some guy from North Carolina, can figure out how to get rid of wild pigs. You kill them:
Under starry skies on Feb. 28, Jett Webb of Conetoe ensured there will be one less mouth to feed in the Indian Woods section of Bertie County – and a real big mouth, too. Webb took down a massive wild boar that bottomed out a set of scales certified to 500 pounds that’s used for weighing tobacco bales.
Michael Mansell, president of the White Oak Ranch Hunting Club, said he weighed well over 500 pounds.
“He pegged the maximum weight capacity of the certified scales with his head and shoulders still on the skinning shed floor,” Mansell said. “It was a true beast!”
I don't know what kind of pigs they've got out in San Jose, but I'll bet they don't look like this:


Please note that he took down this boar with a scary, scary, need-to-ban-them "assault rifle," which liberals will tell you has no legitimate purpose. This particular AR-15 has been modified with a new barrel and upper receiver so that it is now chambered in .308, which is plenty big enough for hunting large game, as opposed to the original 5.56 mm (.223 caliber, for comparison to the .308), which is not. The ease with which you can make such changes to the AR-15 is one of the many reasons for the popularity of the weapon. But I digress.

So once you kill a pig that size, what do you do with it? Silly question:


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