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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Wild pigs find Berlin anything but boaring
2004-03-02
A German hunter stabbed a wild boar to death in a stairwell after the beast rammed through the bolted front door of a block of flats and stormed up to the sixth floor, a Berlin newspaper reported on Tuesday.
He killed the Birthday Boar Hog?
The beast from the local forest sped past a group of children playing outside and into the building in a Berlin suburb, probably in search of food. Petrified neighbours peered through their spy holes fearing their doors would not hold - and called 36-year-old hunter Conrad Meyer. "I grabbed him around the neck and then stabbed him square in the heart with my hunting knife," Meyer told the BZ daily newspaper, which showed him in traditional green hunter's hat and camouflage kit dragging the carcass away.
"A wild boar, rampaging in your apartment building? I'll be right over, as soon as I change..."
Wild boars often cause havoc in Berlin. Last April one jumped into bed with an elderly couple and in January a man was treated in hospital after a boar crashed into his living room.
When I was stationed in Berlin, one of my people used to ride her bike to work through the Grunewald. One night she was chased halfway up the hill by a boar hog who didn't like her bike. She was not happy, for the rest of the night.
Posted by:Chuck Simmins

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#12
I think I dated her for awhile, in my younger days...
Posted by: Fred   2004-3-2 7:58:53 PM  

#13  Shipman, the wild boar I had was lean and tasty. I am ashamed to admit it, but it was in Gaul.

I am a fan of pigs, too. Churchill had a great quote about why he preferred pigs to cats or dogs: "Dogs will look up to you and cats will look down on you, but a pig will look you right in the eye."
Posted by: Tibor   2004-3-2 7:51:48 PM  

#12  That being said I'm very fond of pigs in general.

I've had a few nights like that myself...
Posted by: Raj   2004-3-2 7:21:35 PM  

#11  I'll disagree on the taste of wild hog... I've tried to eat swine that have spent their time eating seafood... it'll make you think again. I'll stick to birds. That being said I'm very fond of pigs in general.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-3-2 6:04:38 PM  

#10  "Petrified neighbours peered through their spy holes fearing their doors would not hold - and called 36-year-old hunter Conrad Meyer."

WTF? Was he in the yellow pages under "Hunter?"

P.S. - Wild boar is exceptionally tasty.
Posted by: Tibor   2004-3-2 5:42:01 PM  

#9  Taking a boar on with a knife takes brass cajones! Looks like pork is on the menu. I'll toss back a Jaegermeister in honor of stout Conrad tonight.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2004-3-2 5:25:50 PM  

#8  Too bad they can't do a capture and release in some nice out of the way place, like say Mecca
Posted by: Cheddarhead   2004-3-2 5:12:06 PM  

#7  Doo4brains, I think the idea was to have a block party with the boar on a spit with an apple in his mouth. It's mother nature in action, man. What do you think the croc hunter feeds the crocks, tofu. Crocodiles don’t eat alarm clocks - that was just a movie - they eat dead animals. People eat bacon and then take a dump; bacteria and microbes eat the doodoo and then the cycle begins anew. Haven't you heard Ted Nugent's cover of Circle of Life?
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-3-2 4:43:23 PM  

#6  Muck4doo, your writing never made a whole lot of sense until now. Why is that? I imagined a Vietnamese guy saying what you wrote.
Posted by: Charles   2004-3-2 4:37:25 PM  

#5  Wild boar are just like people in that they will eat both plants and meat. They have killed and eaten humans in the past. Taking one on with a knife means a decent chance of the boar getting his licks in. Don't feel so sorry for the boar.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2004-3-2 4:36:32 PM  

#4  this isa not funny! that poor animal probly just hungry and now he dead! how would you like if you looking for food and some jackass in camo come up and knife you. this guy probly get heself all horny thinking he some kind of tarzan or nambo or something. if you watch the croc hunter he never a kill any animal and he whoop this meyer guy any day. they could had call spca and they shoot pig with a dart that put him to sleep and move him to forest were no blockhead in camo come charging at him with a knife.
Posted by: muck4doo   2004-3-2 4:26:37 PM  

#3  Wild boar, yummmm! Makes great bratwurst. I might have to start visiting Germany. Never been to Berlin.

On second thought, I'll just move to Ouray, Colorado. Was there last year in mid-May, and there were something like 800 deer in the city limits - of a town with a population of about 2000. Venison is gooooooddd!
Posted by: Old Patriot   2004-3-2 3:32:17 PM  

#2  Where are Asterix and Obelix when you really, really need them??!!!
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2004-3-2 3:27:40 PM  

#1  Ok, I'll go first. Boars, why do they hate us?
Next.
Posted by: Steve   2004-3-2 3:27:23 PM  

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