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Woman killed by pack of wild boars outside Texas home
bbc ^ | 11/26/2019

Posted on 11/26/2019 11:06:16 AM PST by BenLurkin

Christine Rollins, 59, was attacked in Anahuac, east of Houston, outside a home where she worked as a caregiver to an elderly woman.

Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne told reporters on Monday: "In my 35 years I will tell you it's one of the worst things I've ever seen."

"No doubt in my mind that it was multiple animals and we can tell that from the different sizes of the bites," said Sheriff Hawthorne, adding that the homeowner's dogs appear to have chased away the hogs before Rollins' body was discovered.

The sheriff said neighbours had recently complained about rampant feral hogs, and officials have since laid traps for them.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: boars; feralhogs; killed; texas; wildboar; woman
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To: LeonardFMason

Did you hear the biologists’ report?

If they killed 75% of all the hogs in one night, a year later, the numbers would be right back up.

They’re working on a hog-specific poison.

Hope they find it.

That poor woman.


21 posted on 11/26/2019 11:22:04 AM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: dfwgator

...Well except when they are a football team.

Obligatory drum set rif


22 posted on 11/26/2019 11:22:13 AM PST by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about Humanity)
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To: BenLurkin
Horrible.. The poor woman.

History is full of stories like these. Feral hogs have always been dangerous animals.

What is wrong with Houston? Are they waiting for the politicians to deal with this problem?

Seems easy enough to solve: Hog season.

23 posted on 11/26/2019 11:24:21 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait do it today.)
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To: Cold Heart

In my area, you read about the “tragedy” of pioneers who came here eradicating all the dangerous predators.

Well, duh.

So, they’re busy bringing them back now, because “Gaia”.

Or some such touchy-feely BS.


24 posted on 11/26/2019 11:24:24 AM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: Sans-Culotte
"I don’t live in the areas of Texas where these things run wild"

Which part of Texas is free of ferals? I've shot them along the Red River, on the south side of the state line, when they came down to the bank about dawn. These killers were near Houston.

In the Big Bend?, or the Panhandle?

25 posted on 11/26/2019 11:26:04 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

From watching the video, it’s almost an exercise in futility.

There’s just too many of them.

Horror show proportions.


26 posted on 11/26/2019 11:26:08 AM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: BenLurkin
"and officials have since laid traps for them."

WTF?? Why not just kill the bastards. Traps? Give me an effin break.
 

27 posted on 11/26/2019 11:27:15 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Everything I Needed to Know About Islam I Learned on 9/11)
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To: Pajamajan

What is wrong with Houston?

***********

Locusts relocated from California, Oregon, Washington State, Virginia, New York, etc.

Everywhere leftists have destroyed, the leftists that managed to make bank on that destruction have fled to new lands to feed upon and destroy. Austin was their initial landing zone, but the locusts have swarmed to Dallas and Houston too.


28 posted on 11/26/2019 11:28:28 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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Are people in that area familiar with wild hogs? Did she know how to react?


29 posted on 11/26/2019 11:29:06 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: dfwgator

Now that’s a low blow right there. Nothing that a new coach can’t remedy.


30 posted on 11/26/2019 11:29:20 AM PST by centurion316
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To: centurion316

They should get Norvell from Memphis.


31 posted on 11/26/2019 11:31:34 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Pajamajan

[What is wrong with Houston? Are they waiting for the politicians to deal with this problem?]


I think Houston is being used as a reference point. The place itself is Anahuac, 47 miles east.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anahuac,_Texas


32 posted on 11/26/2019 11:31:39 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: BenLurkin

Horrible...but that is rare...I read every day how pit bulls kill or maim ppl or animals.....and yet ppl still get them....


33 posted on 11/26/2019 11:31:54 AM PST by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: Salamander

Maybe the state should hire 200 professional hunters, full time. Many airports have teams of professional hunters to keep the deer off the runways.


34 posted on 11/26/2019 11:33:03 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Everything I Needed to Know About Islam I Learned on 9/11)
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To: Salamander

“They’ve already dragged bears, eastern wolves [”coyotes”] and mountain lions here.”

Be thankful they can’t find a Tyrannous Rex.


35 posted on 11/26/2019 11:33:30 AM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Salamander

I believe Texas has declared open season. The problem lies in where you can shoot safely. The suburbs makes response tough. Feral hogs are a very destructive and large problem.


36 posted on 11/26/2019 11:33:31 AM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: Salamander

I consider wild boars to be almost as dangerous as mountain lions.


37 posted on 11/26/2019 11:33:37 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: jonascord
Which part of Texas is free of ferals?

You won't see them in the cities proper, or even the suburbs. However, once you are just a little ways out of Houston, away from urban sprawl, they are all over.

38 posted on 11/26/2019 11:33:39 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: LeonardFMason

If the traps are the big ones, designed right, they’ll bait and catch the whole family group at once. Hunting them individually catches some, but also scatters them, and some will inevitably escape to reproduce. Hogs weren’t a problem in the 70s, 80s, or 90s in my part of Missouri; but in the 90s hog hunting became a ‘thing’ and hunting clubs released hogs onto their properties which of course immediately escaped. Then followed s short period of relative peace while the population built, then it seemed all the sudden formerly crystal clear springs became hog wallows, and farm plots were destroyed by eating and rooting, and wild turkey nests obliterated, very sad. The spread of ‘feed plot’ hunting for deer also had the unfortunate side effect of helping hogs thrive even under pressure.


39 posted on 11/26/2019 11:35:13 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Salamander

It’s wild boar season all the time in Texas.


40 posted on 11/26/2019 11:36:19 AM PST by DallasGal (Don't worry, I've fantasized your demise in ways that cause me to pray for myself)
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