NAC - Boar goes hog wild (was: serious business)

[Unka Bart]

>From: Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net>
>Subject: serious business
>To: quattro at audifans.com
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>NYC apartments have cockroaches, but they don't beat down your door,
>now do they?  Further proof of just how serious Germans are, and do
>everything the hard way.  This guy takes it on a with a knife...
>
>http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2004/03/03/boar_goes_hog_wild_rams_thro
>ugh_apartment_door/

>BERLIN (Reuters) - A German hunter stabbed a wild boar to death in a
>stairwell after the beast rammed through the bolted front door of an
>apartment building and stormed up to the sixth floor, a Berlin newspaper
>reported Tuesday.

>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 neighbors peered through their spy holes fearing their
>doors would not hold -- and called 36-year-old hunter Conrad Meyer.

HI Brett, fellow Qheads,

If you haven't seen a german boar, you're in for something.  My dad and I
used to go boar hunting nearly every weekend during the occupation,
1950-51, and when we got one (the only one), it weighed 650 lbs and looked
like a bison with a pigs head.  It had tusks that were at least 7 in long
and worked together like very stout shears.  The local farmers would plead
with us to come and shoot the boars, one of them could go through a field
and leaving it looking like a D-8 dozer with a drunk a the controls had
gone through.  It left trenches more than 4 feet deep!!!  I'd hate to be in
an apartment with one...

Yer kindly ol' Unka Bart (in deep lurk mode)