How to stay safe if you meet a wild boar while walking or driving

Euroweekly News ^ | Santiago Carneri • Updated: 29 Sep 2025 | Santiago Carneri • Updated: 29 Sep 2025

[mairdie]

This might be one of the GREAT threads!

[Fiji Hill]

If you regularly eat bacon - they’ll know.

I wonder what wild boar bacon is like. I've had wild boar meat (Wildschwein) in Germany, and it was delicious.

[Williams]

Unless I missed it in the article, it never told you what to do when attacked by a boar, and it didn’t give the slightest hint of any real plan to control their population.

Good to know you shouldn’t flash your car lights at it.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Keep your distance.
Did not know that. Explains why I keep getting arrested.

[Inyo-Mono]

Well, I’ve never been to Spain...

I just love posts like this and the replies. (:

[Varsity Flight]

Communicating in Latin, never works with a 🐖 for us.

[Salamander]

Thank you both for the ear worm I will hosting for the foreseeable future….

😑

[Jonty30]

Be faster than other people.

[metmom]

The Police and Guardia Civil are responsible for managing the situation, usually by guiding the animals back to their natural habitats.

Nope. Just kill them.

[Flaming Conservative]

I suppose shooting them is out of the question...

[Apparatchik]

Never gonna lose it.

[noiseman]

I’ve noticed that iOS 26 has been wreaking havoc with text entry on FreeRepublic. I’ve also had several cases of my own posts being posted multiple times since iOS 26 came out. Processing the “Post” command has been extremely slow, which I think causes multiple posts as the poster clicks again thinking it didn’t work.

And trying to type on FR in landscape mode, at least on a phone, is now impossible because iOS 26 covers almost the entire screen with the keyboard and toolbars.

[Celtic Conservative]

Never met a wild boar. I’ve met a few crashing bores though.

CC

[Celtic Conservative]

But you kinda like the music?

CC

[eastexsteve]

I encounter them all the time on my place. They are afraid of people because we shoot them on sight. So, they run. But, if it is a boar with sows and piglets in the group, they won’t run.

[Bob434]

Lol😄

[Secret Agent Man]

Machete or katana would be handy. Spain is highly restrictive on guns.

[lefty-lie-spy]

You can try the “hide toolbar” option. iOS 26 works fine for me on my iPhone 15 max. No real difference than before the upgrade.

Note that this may not work in Spain without a rifle attached to your iPhone.

[noiseman]

You can try the “hide toolbar” option. iOS 26 works fine for me on my iPhone 15 max. No real difference than before the upgrade.

I had used that before sometimes, but hadn’t used it since iOS 26 came out because it was so hard to find on the now cramped screen. I just now poked around and finally found it (it’s much more buried than it was in iOS 18). That definitely helps, but iOS 26 still places an up/down arrow and checkmark toolbar (I really hate these checkmarks that replaced “Done”) over the middle of the text entry window.

[frank ballenger]

Audio version would lead people to avoid The View panelists or Rachel Maddow to keep their distance from bores. 💤💤