You think Texas has a wild boar problem? Well the Lone Star State swine got nothing on the hogs in Germany. According to German newspaper Spiegel Online, wild radioactive boars are wreaking havoc in forests and towns. Recently, a man in a wheelchair was attacked by a boar in a park in Berlin, and in July a herd of two dozen hogs tromped through a town called Eisenach.
Perhaps the biggest problem, is that you can’t eat the boars. They’re contaminated thanks to leftover radioactivity from the Chernobyl meltdown. German hunters have been killing the pigs (they killed 650,000 last season), trying to decrease the population, but what’s the fun of hog hunting if you can’t barbecue it after? For compensation, the German government has been paying hunters for bringing in contaminated meat, and it doled out more than half a million dollars last year. That’s four times more than it paid in 2007.
"In the last couple of years, wild boar have rapidly multiplied," a spokesman from the Environment Ministry told Spiegel. "Not only is there more corn being farmed, but warmer winters have also contributed to a boar boom."
And the problem isn’t going away anytime soon. The boars are especially prone to contamination because they love to eat mushrooms and truffles, which absorb radioactivity better than most other plants. Officials from the German Hunting Federation expect the problem to be around for the next 50 years.
Photo from Spiegel Online
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OK, if they wont glow in the dark, how about mutating, I love all the sci-fi movies!
Headline:
GIANT HOGS EATING UNARMED EUROPEAN COMMONERS, WEALTHY HUNTERS UNABLE TO CONTROL.AMERICAN HUNTERS ASKED FOR HELP!
Dang laptop skipped I spent 20 years off and on in Germany the rest is ok.
I hate to burst y,alls bermany 20 years in a 27 year Army career (with time out for Viet Nam,the requirements for hunting there are extremely hard to meet. You have to take a hunting course sanctioned by the government, it is at leas six weeks long for military assigned to Germany, ( Germans study at least 6 months, Subjects include, Anatomy,Disease Identification, German Laws, Traditions of German Hunting, Weapons Qualifications in Rifle,Shotgun & Pistols, Several hundred dollar fees for the classes and license you can only hunt with a Jaegermeister unless you own a large area of your own land, they won't make it easy to ger permissions from land owners either.
Deepwoods, they probably only glow when struck by a decent projectile and then it is probably a red glow... ;-)
Suppose one could hunt them at night, I mean they would glow, right? :)
Oh yeah, if they would pay for the trip, I'd sign up for the American herd thinning team.
"Radioactive Hogs" sounds like a low budget horror flick.
hey bo let the boars taste some lead.
I wonder if they would be willing to hire on some American Hunters to thin out the herd? If they could make it worth my while, that just might be fun...
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I wonder if they would be willing to hire on some American Hunters to thin out the herd? If they could make it worth my while, that just might be fun...
hey bo let the boars taste some lead.
Oh yeah, if they would pay for the trip, I'd sign up for the American herd thinning team.
"Radioactive Hogs" sounds like a low budget horror flick.
Suppose one could hunt them at night, I mean they would glow, right? :)
Deepwoods, they probably only glow when struck by a decent projectile and then it is probably a red glow... ;-)
OK, if they wont glow in the dark, how about mutating, I love all the sci-fi movies!
Headline:
GIANT HOGS EATING UNARMED EUROPEAN COMMONERS, WEALTHY HUNTERS UNABLE TO CONTROL.AMERICAN HUNTERS ASKED FOR HELP!
I hate to burst y,alls bermany 20 years in a 27 year Army career (with time out for Viet Nam,the requirements for hunting there are extremely hard to meet. You have to take a hunting course sanctioned by the government, it is at leas six weeks long for military assigned to Germany, ( Germans study at least 6 months, Subjects include, Anatomy,Disease Identification, German Laws, Traditions of German Hunting, Weapons Qualifications in Rifle,Shotgun & Pistols, Several hundred dollar fees for the classes and license you can only hunt with a Jaegermeister unless you own a large area of your own land, they won't make it easy to ger permissions from land owners either.
Dang laptop skipped I spent 20 years off and on in Germany the rest is ok.
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