MT: Pig wrestling canceled after porkers elude capture

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/22/10 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

REAT FALLS, Mont. – A pig wrestling competition at a county fair in northern Montana has been canceled after the porkers eluded fair officials trying to round them up for the event.

Fair office manager Shirley Embleton says the wild pigs spend the year on a 10-mile free-range property along the Marias River and about 30 are captured the Friday of the scheduled event.

But this year, fair officials were only able to locate one boar, despite flying the river. ..

[NormsRevenge]

Maybe they're vacationing at Cape Cod..

[EveningStar]

ping

[NormsRevenge]

should read Great Falls for city name..

pretty country, still got a relative or two there.. no pig wrestlers tho, they were into broncs and bulls and roping calves and such..

pigs are a whole different game..

[Sacajaweau]

My bro's 6 pigs wanted to be "free range" when they were due for the chop shop. He chased them all over the place.

My dad came out. Made a "feed" trail to the truck and went and had a beer while watching the pigs one by one, go into the truck.

[Joe Boucher]

Come on down to My neck of the woods.
We are all the time either seeing boar and ferile pigs.
They’re tearing up the swales along the taxi ways or doing in ones yard/ WE fear damage on the runway as it can take out a plane.
WE shoot at least 20 a year and don’t even make a dent.
Flying low and slow you can spot more of them than Gators.

[Daffynition]

Road hogs. Despicable.

[and so?]

Oh boy, rasslin (sic) feral pigs (after a year of free range, they are feral)...is this a great country or what?

Problem is, not finding them does not bode well for the future...just ask what a big pig population can do to the environment.

My state asks hunters to kill all they can...don't even have to process them, just leave the meat to rot if you wish.

Pigs is tough and smart, though hunting them is fun. 8^)

[Daffynition]

Just another stimulus pork project. Move along. Nothing to see here.

[Clay Moore]

I have heard of car surfing but now we have hog surfing? Cool!

[goseminoles]

Rosie O’Donnell on the run?

[FlJoePa]

Recently met a prospective client at his citrus ranch near Zolfo Springs (west of Sebring). He told me they shoot as many as 20 a week sometimes. I guess the pigs wreak havoc on the low hanging grapefruit and oranges.

[bigheadfred]

Depending on the size of these pigs, this could turn into a real “Hold muh beer” moment.

[Slings and Arrows]

o/~ Boooorn freeee... o/~

[Joe Boucher]

Not really,
What the pigs do is root around in the dirt looking for grubs. Little fat white worms.
A large 400 pounder will tear up 2 acres in a night. a passel of little ones the same.
Also we take hard feed corn, soak it in water for three days then bait traps for the beasts.
BUT it is sure fun running through the wetlands chasing them and shooting them.
Once in a while they’ll hunt you.

[Bean Counter]

[Jack Hydrazine]

Are those missing pigs on the lam?


Wait a minute...

That didn't sound right...

[GladesGuru]

Maybe the pigs are reposing in wolf bellies, cougar bellies, bear bellies?

[goseminoles]

Ham on the lam?

[Jack Hydrazine]

That’s hilarious!

[goseminoles]

I think that’s where you were subconsciously going with that :o)