My lord Noooooo! Ordinary Texans with rifles! Nooooo! Only Gov people are smart and rich enough to shoot pigs from a helicopter.......
“Only Gov people are smart and rich enough to shoot pigs from a helicopter....... “
Truth being stranger than fiction, the following occurred in the Everglades, in Big Cypress National Preserve. Specifically, a few miles south of Loop Road (Pinecrest).
Ranger Randy was able to obtain funding for an “invasive species reduction program”, which translated into a helicopter with Ranger Randy playing door gunner.
One fine day, the Armed & Rangerous chased a large pig into a hammock (tree island) and came in for a close hover alongside the hammock. Bad move, as it turned out.
The four legged pig charged the two legged pigs-in-the-plane, sort of a last great act of defiance. When four legged pig hit the landing skids, the chopper moved and nearly lost the tail rotor to a nearby dwarf cypress tree.
Fortunately, bad porcine behavior was cured by a lead injection.
Unfortunately, the citizens didn’t get to read a headline like this one: Charging Pig Downs Rangers Gunship.
Pigs getting shot down by a real pig. Whodda thunk it?
Answer: The pig that charged.
Source: Ranger Randy and friends achieved a sort of local hilarious infamy when their exploits were overheard by Pinecrest hunter with scanners.