Texas may let hunters shoot pigs from choppers

Associated Press ^ | 2/19/09 | PAUL J. WEBER

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MERTZON, Texas (AP) — Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas. But now they had better watch their hairy backs.

A state lawmaker is proposing to allow ordinary Texans with rifles and shotguns to shoot the voracious, tusked animals from helicopters.

[redk]

Fear not little pigs, Ashley Judd will save you.

[pnh102]

I can just imagine someone in Texas seeing that Ashley Judd ad and thinking... wow... that could be a great way to get rid of pigs too!

[South40]

Fear not little pigs, Ashley Judd will save you Wynonna.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Gotta know how to lead em.

[null and void]

Shooting pigs from helicopters?

That's for guuuuurls...

[12Gauge687]

I’d love to be a part of it. It’s already easy to get a permit and there’s a year-round season. But above all, I love pork, especially the smoked and cured kind (damn the nitrates). Texas beef BBQ is great but I love pork ribs.

[American_Centurion]

I would be willing to pay a pretty good amount of money to go to texas and whack some pigs from a door gunner position. I’d pay enough it would thoroghly piss off the Mrs.

[FlashBack]

Didn’t they blast Palin for ding the same to the wolf population in AK?????

[ScreamingFist]

A state lawmaker is proposing to allow ordinary Texans with rifles and shotguns to shoot the voracious, tusked animals from helicopters.

My lord Noooooo! Ordinary Texans with rifles! Nooooo! Only Gov people are smart and rich enough to shoot pigs from a helicopter.......

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We alaskans will loan you texans some wolves for a while. when they are done taking care of your pigs, we'll shoot them from airplanes.

Everybody knows Alaskans are better shots than Texans...we shoot from airplanes, not helicopters. Why wouldn't we be, we have over twice the landmass and all the "dangerous" game.

Just "funnin" with ya'll.

[libh8er]

Aww.. little piggies running helter and skelter while mother Sarah blazes away from above. I hope they send a complimentary video footage to Ashley Judd.

[constitutiongirl]

Ordinary Texans?? Is there such a thing as an ‘ordinary’ Texan?

[max americana]

This is bad. I have no intention of shooting Oprah, Rosie O donnell, Aretha Franklin and Michael Moore from a chopper.

[Jeff Chandler]

Is that the best headline they could come up with for this story?

[bert]

......Just “funnin” with ya’ll. .....

To get very serious.... have you ever seen a Texican wild hog? They eat wolves for brekfast

[tbpiper]

Texas may let hunters shoot pigs from choppers

That's what you get when pigs ride Harley's.

[Puppage]

[ScreamingFist]

Just "funnin" with ya'll.

It's a well known fact that Alaskans can't fly a machine as complicated as a helicopter.....;)

[Tijeras_Slim]

But now they had better watch their hairy backs.

Ya'll start wearing a shirt when you're raiding the neighbors cornfield, ok?

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