A Boaring Christmas - Wild Boar Around The World Celebrate Christmas.

Boaringly funny, not sentimental.

While many farm animals around the world are on duty as extras in nativity scenes, boar and pigs are conspicuously absent from such displays. Maybe because they are considered 'unclean' animals in certain parts of the world? Or is it just because of the raucous nature of boar and their unorthodox sense of humor? Judge for yourself.

Dozens of news media all over the world, as far away as the Philippines and Taiwan, find the story of party revelers in the trash bin irresistible. According to these reports, a group of German party goers near Darmstadt decided to go for a late night walk in a nearby forest. There the noisy quartet of two men and two women attracted the displeasure of some local boar. Annoyed by the intruders and in defense of their young(?) the boar charged. They chased the four for about 100 yards until the happy party goers spotted a metal trash bin and unceremoniously jumped in with the boar still in hot pursuit.

One of the men called police from inside the container and asked to be rescued “ . . . one of the men apparently telling officers: 'We're up to our necks in s*** and the beasts are outside. You've got to get us out of here.” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1235834/Pack-wild-boar-attack-partygoers-woodland-walk.html#ixzz0alkuzPPO) By the time police arrived to rescue the shivering party animals, the boar had already dispersed. This link also has some reader comments.

Several hundred kilometers to the east a boar was spotted moving through residential neighborhoods in the city of Krakow, Poland. Local hunters pursued the animal for several hours before they could shoot it – not until he had seriously injured two men. Both had to be hospitalized. What was the boar doing in Krakow? Stocking up on Christmas goodies?

Not to be 'outboared' by alien funny boar, a San Diegan funny woman contributed a “wild boar outside Subway” in San Diego, Subway Restaurant that is. Go to http://www.googleandblog.com/wild-boar-outside-subway-san-diego/3761/ and see the wild beast for yourself. This wild boar looks suspiciously like the wild Pot Belly Pig some Asian hunters shot at the Big Horn Ranch several years ago. What do you think – pot bellied pig or wild boar? Well, at least it is black. Your guide might yell 'Black, Russian, shoot' if you encountered the monster outside of San Diego Subway.

Finally, here is another revelation from San Diego. The local Fox News station in San Diego carried the story of a wild pig running loose in a backyard. The three second video clip shows the feral pig rushing past big candy sticks in search of Santa and some apples he carried with him that day (http://video.foxnews.com/12604597/?category_id=6a207a10df1df9bc0dcc18e651361d1f05fa1473). The 'wild boar' sports a fashionable curly tail and camouflage coat.

Does anyone still doubt that there are wild pigs around San Diego? One shot, one spotted and one in a backyard looking for Santa!

PJJ