Not only are wild boars feeding on garbage in some of Europe's largest cities, they carry hepatitis and incurable African swine fever that can destroy pork producers.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...63360094ion=whatElse

Yeah- big time. The Germans, ever the pragmatic sort, have teams employed to shoot them in urban areas.

Bill, thanks for the post-it was interesting to see that Europe has some folk infected with the same Disney World view of wild animals as does the USA.
It is also obvious that their cities are grossly negligent in their management human waste. Wherever that happens disease and pestilence seem closely behind the hogs.

I wonder how long it will be before wild/feral hogs are running the streets of LA and San Francisco?

CRS: You mean they're not already??

Hey Bill: When I was in the Army in Germany
I ran a "watering point" on a creek with air
powered pumps to fill tankers in 15 min with two 4" hoses. There were several fires set by the big guns at times. We ran a fleet of 6, sometimes 8, 8000 gal tankers to fight fires with as water supplies.

There was quite a few hogs around that area then. Fall '71 and fall 72. Grafenwher.

One of the guys went there to get a ride back when I was supposed to be there. It was about 15 miles back to the barracks. I got delayed, Jim was on an open grader and a couple 250-300lb boars treed him trying to get up on the deck with him. Said it looked like one was going to make it so he stepped down and stomped on its front foot. He was a farm kid from Richland, ORE. One did puncture a back tire on his grader with its tusk.

When the "food runs" were made, my place was the last stop. They'd leave all the leftovers with me as about a dozen guys were coming and going all the time. Many missed meals, so it was handy to have on hand. Cases of cartoned milk was one thing they left lots of. Cold foods and drinks I'd set in the crik.

Damn the hogs and the messes they made of things.

George

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Few years back a friend had a 600h concession near Koln / Bonn. So many wildboar they were coming into one village in the summer evenings and turning over the lawns and flower beds! Unterejagdbehoerde (Fisn n Game Office) game him permission to shot pigs in the village. One evening an elderly couple whose garden was getting hammered set my buddy up in their living room and he shot pigs through the open window in between eating soup and sausages!

Plenty of wildboar in Germany all right !!

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There's a series called "Invaders" about animal incursions and the episode on pigs shows them in a park in Germany at night shaking a potato chip bag and being surrounded by pigs...