Wild Hogs Roam Streets, Scare People Near Atlanta

atlanta.cbslocal.com ^ | 9/24/2013

[RoosterRedux]

Police have enlisted the help of a trapper to round up a group of feral hogs scaring residents of a subdivision in suburban Atlanta.

Some parents fear sending their children to a school bus stop in the Lithonia area, where up to four of the hogs are roaming the streets and eating trash in front yards.

Authorities hope the hogs can be trapped in cages by Wednesday morning, DeKalb County police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said.

“They’re causing quite a stir to say the least,” Parish said shortly before noon Tuesday, as she headed out to the neighborhood, about 17 miles east of downtown Atlanta.

The police department’s animal control officers were at the scene, but the plan was for a volunteer trapper to actually capture the animals.

[RoosterRedux]

And the press mistaken shows a photo of someone's pet Vietnamese pot belly.

[dfwgator]

Isn’t Arkansas playing UGA this week?

[vpintheak]

GUNS KILL HOGS!

[Da Bilge Troll]

Big light in sky scares minority groups in Sector R.

[RoosterRedux]

Wonder if this area of Lithonia is a muslim enclave.

[NEMDF]

Those children going to the bus stops should be armed with pellet guns to fend off the wild hogs, right?

[1rudeboy]

LOL—You’re correct!

[dennisw]

“Root hog or die!!!” you can look that up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_hog,_or_die

[RoosterRedux]

LOL...this is just pregame psyops thx to Arkansas.

[Paladin2]

Wouldn’t large mag .22LRs help in this situation?

[Alas Babylon!]

Gee, you’d think in the South some good ol’ boys would’ve pulled the rifle off the rack of the pickup and fixed the problem already. Especially a free pork dinner right there in the front yard!

But... Atlanta has way too many Yankees who would freak out if they saw a regular citizen with a firearm in Suburbia.

Here in rural Alabama a firearm is just another tool. My neighbors would no sooner freak out over a firearm than they would with me wielding my rake, weed-whacker or hoe.

[Paladin2]

Do the hogs in question have razorbacks?

[dinodino]

Hog? 44 mag, min.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yes, they do. But it is a bit dangerous to discharge a firearm in a subdivision.

[RoosterRedux]

I think the big hogs are difficult to bring down with even a 5.56 unless hit in a vital organ.

On the other hand, this is a good argument for a 30 round mag.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Shoot him Lisbeth, shoot him!!!”

[Fledermaus]

LOL, no. We have Texas A&M at home.

[Polyxene]

SOO-EEE PIG!!!

[Red Badger]

Like oooh, I'm really scared!.............

[Fledermaus]