Since when have there been wild boar in the UK?

Sambostar · January 2015

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/driver-killed-wild-boar-lorry-collision-125726905.html#3KaiOKd

What next are the sanctioned animal vigilantes going to do? Release a load of Grizzly bears? Boar are like Water Buffalo, they destroy everything. Evidently.

Strat_a_tat_tat · January 2015

The Fretboard is the natural home of many wild bores.

(Obviously, I'm one of them)

vasselmeyer · January 2015

They escaped from captivity:

http://www.britishwildboar.org.uk/index.htm?britain.htm

dafuzz · January 2015

Not since the times of Asterix, surely

Sambostar · January 2015

Oh. I was thinking. Wild Boar released in a country where citizens aren't allowed to carry or own guns. It doesn't make any sense and they destroy crops and plantations.

I've been chased by a fully grow wild boar, they are bat shit crazy, you are lucky to get away with your life.

I guess all we can hope for is that the Wallabees will eat them.

EricTheWeary · January 2015

For many years in the Forest of Dean. I used to spend a couple of weeks a year there and the local news had regular boar stories, such as running through school playgrounds.

holnrew · January 2015

They've been in the forest of dean for years now

EricTheWeary · January 2015

I had a holiday in Normandy and shooting wild boar was a local hobby. I never saw any live ones but there was a hunting lodge up the road and lots of bits of boar skeletons around. It was creepy.

Sambostar · January 2015

Are they proper Wild boar then with 200kg angry males with tusks?

Drew_TNBD · January 2015

Jalapeno · January 2015

dafuzz said:

Not since the times of Asterix, by Toutatis !

Fixed it

Clarky · January 2015

saw a few staggering around Reading town centre New Years Eve night..

mostly falling off their stilettos into the puddle of puke they just made..

most entertaining..

Hootsmon · January 2015

think I saw on todays news a story of a emu runnin' like the wind up an Israeli motorway..........

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30677943

breakstuff · January 2015

Ah,Morrissey saw this coming.

Phil_aka_Pip · January 2015

Weren't they extincted in England during mediaeval times?

Hootsmon · January 2015

^ aye, but this is MODERN times man

Evilmags · January 2015

Passed one on my bike about a month a go. We have them in the area I live in. Should really get a gun and eat one, as they are delicious. Mind you there are wolves and bear in Spain so their natural predators hunt them.