Posted on 10/03/2016 3:57:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
About 20 wild boars have destroyed more than half a dozen lawns, neighbors say
Front yards are being ripped up in a San Jose neighborhood, and while residents are well aware of who the culprits are, there's very little they can do.
The torn-up lawns are the work of wild pigs on a feeding frenzy, residents said. They strike in the middle of the night, digging up lawns in the Evergreen neighborhood of South San Jose.
"They came in and ... I saw a huge pack of them, and they were effectively ripping up the sod," resident Rod Murchison said.
Murchison and his neighbors said there are about 20 of the wild boars, and they have destroyed more than half a dozen lawns in the neighborhood over the past week.
Kevin McFatridge lives up the street from Murchison. His front lawn looks like a war zone. The pigs even took out his geranium plants.
"We can handle a little patch here or there, but our entire lawn is now gone, and that's very frustrating," McFatridge said.
Murchison believes the pigs came from the ranchland across the street from his home. He said he had a similar problem about 10 years ago but it stopped after neighbors got together to secure a fence. Murchison even put up a device that shines a red light, simulating a pig predator. He hopes it will be enough to keep the hungry grub hunters away.
Murchison's 10-year-old daughter Katie built two fairy houses in the front yard. She's so worried about the pigs, she put up a warning.
"I put up the sign so the fairies would know not to come at night because the pigs might come," Katie said.
San Jose? Democrats? Don’t care....
Mmmm....FREE BACON!!!!
However if you sit out there waiting for them with a twelve gauge loaded with slugs and off one or two, here comes PETA with the cops.
Is there a silencer for said shotgun?
Wild boars invade a neighborhood, and instead of shooting them they put up simulated pig predator lights and and are concerned over fairy houses. Yep, it’s the Bay Area.
who still has a lawn in california with the water shortage?
There you go, I recall Stanley Marsh the III an eccentric Texan in Amarillo (look up Cadillac Ranch) had a neighbor selling lots for development, Marsh put a giant sign up, Future home of Worlds Largest Rattlesnake Ranch.
You can do the same thing with pigs when the “Syrians” want to move into the neighborhood.
hillary and other hungry feminists?
Do they know the way to San Jose?
It’s probably spray-painted green - oh wait, spray paint is bad for the ozone layer in CA.
Rosie’s in town!
We let our back yard in SF go last summer due to the drought and it was really sad, I would never do that again, it is amazing about what a green back yard does for your life.
Trank said oinkers and transport them to happier hunting grounds.
Dearborn, Michigan is a good start.
Set up a humane live pig capture cage. Tell the neighbors you’re going to release it back into the wild. Celebrate capture of the pig. Wave to all the neighbors as you drive away. Drop off at the East San Jose Mexican pig smoker cucina. Sell half, keep half. Come back the next day, pick up your smoked ribs and ham, drive home. Eat. Go to sleep, wake up stuffed in the middle of the night when you hear your pig trap slam shut in the front yard. Repeat. Buy a freezer for the garage.
” BOARSLIVESMATTER” !!!!
You don’t have to drive to East San Jose. There is a place in Los Gatos for that.
Maybe the fairies can catch the pigs, fly and release them inside the fenced area of the nearest mosque or deliver them to the nearest PETA member’s yard.
The voted for democrats. They are opposed to hunting. They deserve it
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