Remember ? Wild Pig Commandos Attack Palestinian Agricultural Crops

In June 2009 I reported under this title about problems caused to agriculture by wild boar in Palestinian territory in and around Samaria.

Today I found an almost identical article, dated December 16, 2009, published by Israel National News. Apparently the very same skillfully trained wild boar commandos are still raiding Arab farm land and attacking Arab people carefully staying clear of anything Israeli.

This hilarious story is among the most amusing news I have read this year. We know that animals have been trained by scientists and military forces in many parts of the world to do their human masters' bidding. Just think of the dolphin trained by the U.S. Navy.

But this goes maybe a step further. How does one train a boar to discern infallibly between Arab corn and Jewish corn? And how about Jewish corn that was sold to Arab farmers to seed their fields? If we knew the secret, we could possibly train wild pigs in California to differentiate between wild earthworms and earthworms in the fields of farms? Or wild acorn and cultivated nuts in an orchard?

Anyhow, the story is funny enough to be revisited. It is not less entertaining the second time around.

If only the News Service had managed to add up-to-date reader comments to it to make it more newsworthy.

All 43 comments published with the story date from June 2009.

Read my first post Wild Pig Commandos Attack Palestinian Agricultural Crops, and you know it all.

Old news is no news. Or is it?

Recycled, maybe?

PJJ