Posted on 10/17/2001 8:31:28 AM PDT by Texas Gal
It was the only fun history report I had ever written.( I was an engineering major)
Anywho,
Along with cow catapults, incendiary fruit bats in WWII, and donkey bombs in Afghanistan, I
found out that flaming pigs were often used in earlier wars.
I don't remember all the details but apparently you put a little oil on a pig, light
him up, point him in a specific direction, and he becomes a medieval cruse missile.
From the historical reports I read, they will stay on track for hundreds of yards,
then start catching things on fire when they get to their target.
Run awaaaaay!!!
"To protect wildlife" nearly every species has a protected status. You can only shoot large game (deer, pigs, etc) after there has been a wildlife survey done of your property and the types, sexs and age groups have been determined. Then you are told what animals of what age groups and how many of them are to be shot. At this point most people have to get a warden to accompany them out to actually shoot these beasties and the Jaegermeister tells you which specific individual to shoot.
Firearms are so regulated, controlled and expensive that hardly anyone bothers to get them and go through the hassles of keeping them. The socialist government and its propaganda machine have insured that there is a stigma attached to any weapon (read "evil self firing crime device") other than extremely expensive multibarrel breech loaders. This creates a society where only a very small percentage of the population is capable of affording a respectable (read "good") gun, therefor there really isnt much of a "gun culture".
So, in the rare instances where there is someone that can come up with the money and is willing to go through all the problems of getting and storing a firearm, they have to have their wildlife surveyed, make a jaegermeister appointment, and wait all day in the cold rain (=German hunting season) for the jaegermeister to decide that the pig you can shoot is the ancient 3 legged tumor ridden one.
Makes you want to hunt there doesnt it?
"To protect wildlife" nearly every species has a protected status. You can only shoot large game (deer, pigs, etc) after there has been a wildlife survey done of your property and the types, sexs and age groups have been determined. Then you are told what animals of what age groups and how many of them are to be shot. At this point most people have to get a warden to accompany them out to actually shoot these beasties and the Jaegermeister tells you which specific individual to shoot.
Firearms are so regulated, controlled and expensive that hardly anyone bothers to get them and go through the hassles of keeping them. The socialist government and its propaganda machine have insured that there is a stigma attached to any weapon (read "evil self firing crime device") other than extremely expensive multibarrel breech loaders. This creates a society where only a very small percentage of the population is capable of affording a respectable (read "good") gun, therefor there really isnt much of a "gun culture".
So, in the rare instances where there is someone that can come up with the money and is willing to go through all the problems of getting and storing a firearm, they have to have their wildlife surveyed, make a jaegermeister appointment, and wait all day in the cold rain (=German hunting season) for the jaegermeister to decide that the pig you can shoot is the ancient 3 legged tumor ridden one.
Makes you want to hunt there doesnt it?
Gather the wild pigs, herd them onto the C-17's heading for Afghanistan, open bay doors deposit wild pigs on Taliban. When Taliban runs, Brits and Ameircans can have a barbeque with 'tenderized' pork, then coat their bullets in the fat and viola, NO MORE TERRORIST, and NO MORE 72 virgins!!
Did you ever see any of the behemoth sausage material that used to hang out in the blackberry patch around Hoehneken(sp?) castle at night?
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They also have the same situation we would have if we were that restricted. I know 'some people' from when I lived in Germany who could've gotten me anything I wanted on the black market. And I do mean anything. The Czech and Russian mobs are all over the place in Europe even if the govt denies it.
I really wanted an AK or Uzi, but I was afraid to get one because I would have had to smuggle it back to the States in my household goods. Probably could have gotten by with it since from what I understand only about ten percent of the ISO containers on the cargo ships actually get checked.
Hohenecken, near K-Town.
The wild pigs around that area and around Pirmasens have really high radioactive content.
The foresters theorize it's from the fallout from Tchernobyl. The boars eat a lot of mushrooms and forage in the leaves. Supposedly they pick up the radioactivity from that. Foresters families are advised not to eat too much of the meat.
longjack
As far as the radiation goes I guess that thats just another good reason not to hunt for those pigs.
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