Vietnamese pot-bellied pig on the loose...

kamobe

rofl

THE ongoing hunt for the elusive Vietnamese pot-bellied pig that has been attacking livestock for the past few months took a new turn yesterday.

A private investigator has warned that he will shoot the animal, while a local dog warden has said he believes it can be caught alive.

Private investigator Sean McGovern said that all the advantages rested with the pot-bellied pig. "He decides where he goes, where he eats, when he eats," he explained.

Mr McGovern has hunted wild boar in the past and said that, if he gets the pig within his sights, he plans to shoot it.

However, Clare ISPCA dog warden, Frankie Coote, who has been trying to capture the pig, dissociated himself from any move to shoot the animal and said that a pet farm in Co Kerry had offered to take the pig.

Meanwhile a young black female puma is at large close to some of the North's popular tourist resorts.

It is believed to be searching for a safe place to make its lair.

There have been up to 17 sightings of the animal, in Portrush, Portballintrae and Bushmills.

The public has been warned to exercise caution if the animal is cornered.

"It is believed to be searching for a safe place to make its lair." Hysterical

The Onion couldn't do better...

po0k

am....tranquilisers tbh.

No need to shoot the thing. If the bollocks is sooo desperate for rashers why not get some Galtee or Denny from the local shop?


Still...Vietnamese bacon...can't beat it

Epitaph

A small army of battle-grizzled mercenaries and game hunters, eqipped with the best weapons and tracking equipment they could procure from the black market, is scouring the south Galway border where the beast was last seen.

Led by the unflappable Pete Postlewhaite, veteran of the McGathan Bullock Hunt of Monaghan (1989) and 2nd Runner-Up in the Mountbellew Golfing Open of 2002, the warriors stalk the veldt near the Tipperary and Clare borders, senses alert for a sign that their prey had been there.

Surely the rolling savannahs of this secluded portion of the West has never seen such a military deployment since the time of Cromwell. Peering intently over the muzzles of their wide-bore weaponry, the trackers and hired soldiers steel themselves for the onslaught that is inevitable. For the Vietnamese pot-bellied pig is a lethal adversary, and when trapped will lash out viciously at anything that moves.

But glancing over the hard eyes of these brave hunters, it's hard to imagine any outcome of this man-beast confrontation but one: mutual annihilation. Whomever (or whatever) remains standing after the looming battle will have few to celebrate with.

Tyrrial

ummm... piggy

nadir

I found this small report on bbc.

The Irish Independent reports that a vicious Vietnamese pot-bellied pig is on the loose in County Clare.

It says that it chased a man near Ennis, while it bit another man.

But where did it come from? Perhaps it escaped from an abattoir, the report suggests.

One man told the paper he saw the pig running down the road chased by two men in white overalls.

ROFL

doctor evil

I would love to have a vietnamese pot bellied pig as a guard pig over my house, pigs are smarter than dogs so if bribed by a robber my super pig would maim the robber then eat the bribe. He would also be my hot water bottle. Seriously though I dont think there is any need to shoot the animal, it can just be shot with a tranquiliser and captured, the pig could be used as a tourist attraction, or possibly be used to hunt down scumbags!:D

conZ

Go on teh Ennis.

I was out last night, and was told that the pig was from an estate near mine. Friends said that it has been missing for the past year (or there abouts) and it's only started attacking people lately.

Funny though, there's an abbatoir less than a minute's walk from the estate.

I know Sean McGovern personally. No doubt he will shoot him, chances are, though, that the pot bellied pig wont come near the Garda Station/Ciaran's Bar... So he's away with it.

Mossy Monk

Pot Bellied Pig :rolleyes:

i saw 2 cows on the loose today

pickarooney

A pot-bellied pig? No bigger than a cat, surely?
Unless it's an empty-bellied pot-smoking pig, which could conceivably eat whole villages.

cartman

arent the pot bellied pigs ma eaters or somit...
i think i was told that,,

hehe, if i saw him... i cook him

cartman

Typedef

Vietnamese pot-bellied pig

I had a girlfriend who told me she wanted one of these once... and ended up getting a small dog, I think she was being broody.

Specky

Leading a secluded and mostly media free life as I do, I only actually saw this story yesterday so I wasn't aware of all the fuss.

What struck me was that I saw a vietnamese pot bellied pig on the side of the road here in Kildare about 2 weeks ago. It was quite happily snuffling along the hedgerow seeming without a care in the world.

Both myself and the missus gave a slight double take as we drove past, this being a somewhat irregular occurance, but didn't really think too much of it and instead chatted about the possibility of getting a pig to make a meal out of our back garden which currently bears more resemblance to areas of Vietnam during the US fiasco than to your average garden.

Anyway, it begs the question:

1. are there actually marauding hoards of pot bellied pigs roaming the Irish countryside taking lambs and small children?

2. is the Clare pig actually in Clare at all or has it in fact taken flight (er-hum) and vacated the county on its way to the capitol, a ferry and a life of worldwide travel under an assumed identity?

smiles

It is actually hilarious.

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conZ

LoL :rolleyes:

carbonkid

aaaww...poor piggy.
then again it is an ugly pig...as far as piggys go

I LOVE YOU PIGGY!!!!!!:p