Here's something not to do

Tom · October 16, 2008, 06:06:05 PM

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. -- While normally effective on people, a Hernando County deputy learned the hard way that Taser stun guns do not work very well on wild boars.

The sheriff's office said that Deputy Joseph Tibor responded to complaints of an "extremely large pig" tearing up a resident's yard in a Brooksville neighborhood Tuesday morning.

He quickly found a 450-pound boar rooting up shrubbery and threatening a water fountain.

The animal then flashed his tusks toward onlookers. Tibor tried to stop it with his Taser, but the 50,000 volts had no effect on the animal.

The boar was eventually corralled into a neighbor's trailer.

tyb525 · October 16, 2008, 06:24:08 PM

What happened to his real gun?

isawlogs · October 16, 2008, 07:18:04 PM

I am not wundering where his real gun was ... where was his brain !!!!

Lanier_Lurker · October 16, 2008, 08:15:20 PM

I'm wondering how a 450 pound boar threatens a water fountain? ???

SAW MILLER · October 16, 2008, 08:46:04 PM

I have killed a few wild hogs and I am wondering how they corraled one into a trailer?Its hard enough to run a domestic hog into a trailer,let alone a wild one.

pigman · October 16, 2008, 10:38:12 PM

I don't know nothing about them Floraday hogs, but my domesticated boars were very sensitive to electrical shock. My electrical livestock prod would make a 600 lb boar climb a wall. I never used the prod on a boar execpt when I was trying to load him for market. They just never wanted to leave them sows. One time when I decided to sell a big boar he decided he just didn't want to leave the breeding barn. I go get the "hot stick". I hit that boar with that shocking stick right on the rump and he made a quick turn and climbed the wall alright. He opened his large mouth and came over the 5 foot wall right at me. If you have not been approached by an extremely mad large boar with his mouth chomping at you, you just have never been scared. I changed my mind about selling that boar for a while. The next week I used a sow that was in a loving mood to entice that boar out of the barn into my trailer.

WDH · October 16, 2008, 11:07:57 PM

We used electric fences. Take it down, and they (hogs) still would not cross over where the fence used to be (even under extreme provocation).

Norm · October 17, 2008, 07:23:18 AM

We used slappers not prods on hogs too. They would go nuts if you hit them with a prod. First time they touch an electric fence and they won't go near it ever again.

Now a wild boar is different so who knows but the thought of don't bring a taser to a hog fight comes to mind. :D

zopi · October 17, 2008, 07:54:17 AM

I never have liked microwaved bacon.

Tom · October 17, 2008, 11:36:06 AM

QuoteI am not wundering where his real gun was ...

I used to watch a lot of Andy Griffith, and Barney didn't have but one bullet. I think those small town deputies are maybe given only one. It's easy to lose that sucker in your pocket when it's down in there amongst the pieces of litter, Badge polish, shoe shine rags, donut chits, chewing gum and change.

Maybe it was easier to draw the taser than beat the boar over the head with a .38. :D

iffy · October 17, 2008, 11:49:53 AM

I tried to load a 500 lb boar that need to go to the sale. He was getting too big and had turned testy. Couldn't get in the pen with him anymore. So ---- I tied a cattle prod to a long stick and tried to persuade him to go up the loading chute. After he busted the long stick into toothpicks, he came right thru the fence after me. I escaped to the barn and gave him a few weeks to cool off. An oldtimer told me the way to load one was to put a 5 gallon bucket over his head and he would start backing up. All you had to do was steer the bucket. I was young and foolish then, as opposed to being old and foolish now. I constructed a tapered alley, and by using a panel was able to back him down the alley to the loading chute. At the point I stuck the bucket over the panel and jammed it on his head. Sure enough, he started backing up. All the way up the chute, going well, then his back feet fell over the edge into the pickup bed and I didn't take up the slack quick enough and the bucket came off. He came right back down the chute after me. I jumped up and got my feet on the sides of the chute and he passed under me. All the time his jaws sounded like a steel trap. Snapped dangerously close the family jewels. Finally got him loaded a few weeks later with a romantic sow.

Tom · October 17, 2008, 12:14:03 PM

Everytime I hear of a boar loading story, I think of my Dad's story of trying to get a wild pig out of the pen for a Bar-B-Cue. "Son, by the time I could get myself out of that pen, I didn't have anything left on but my belt loops."

OneWithWood · October 17, 2008, 01:02:29 PM

So what happened to the unfortunate deputy with the electric wizbang?

Did he ever get out of the trailer? :D

Tom · October 17, 2008, 03:22:07 PM

I guess we'll have to use our imagination. There was no follow up. :D

WildDog · October 17, 2008, 03:51:30 PM

I have watched the feral pigs on my place start squealing before they hit the electric fence knowing its going to hurt :D but the crop on the other side is just to good to pass up.

Texas Ranger · October 17, 2008, 04:40:24 PM

As a kid I let my father convince me to rope a small boar to load for market. I got the rope on him, he decided to leave, trailing a10 year old to dumb to let go. 8)

thecfarm · October 17, 2008, 07:16:52 PM

When I took our pigs to market,I backed up the horse trailer to the fence.I removed the fence in front of the trailer and put the tailgate down.I fed the pigs in there for 3-4 days.When the big day came I fed them one last time and closed the gate.All loaded and ready to go to market.