Texans are paying up to $50,000 to hunt feral hogs from helicopters with machine guns

[Redbirds Fan]

That's it. That was the headline I read while sitting here drinking my coffee this morning.

"We'll come in low out of the rising sun and about a mile out, we'll put on the music . . . Yeah, I use Wagner—scares the hell out of the pigs! My boys love it!"

[baldgriff]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-plague-of-pigs-in-texas-73769069/

January 2011 article in case anyone wants to know.

Telling quote here:

Wild hogs are among the most destructive invasive species in the United States today. Two million to six million of the animals are wreaking havoc in at least 39 states and four Canadian provinces; half are in Texas, where they do some $400 million in damages annually. They tear up recreational areas, occasionally even terrorizing tourists in state and national parks, and squeeze out other wildlife.

Texas allows hunters to kill wild hogs year-round without limits or capture them alive to take to slaughterhouses to be processed and sold to restaurants as exotic meat. Thousands more are shot from helicopters. The goal is not eradication, which few believe possible, but control.

[heyelander]

Texas allows hunters to kill wild hogs year-round without limits or capture them alive to take to slaughterhouses to be processed and sold to restaurants as exotic meat. Thousands more are shot from helicopters. The goal is not eradication, which few believe possible, but control.

Yeah, I don't see anything wrong with it... even sounds somewhat necessary... just don't quite understand the person who enjoys this. Not my thing I guess.

[nullnor]

you have to find the leader wild boar to stop them. but they also have joined in trying to stop sharia law from spreading Wild boar stampede crushes ISIS fighters

A herd of wild boars became the latest group to join the fight against ISIS..At least eight ISIS fighters were taking cover preparing for a surprise strike on local anti-ISIS tribesmen when the hero boars charged them. ISIS is believed to have recovered the bodies of their dead , and have now began to shoot at the boars in retaliation.

[baldgriff]

Im sure someone is making a killing doing this........

see what I did there.

[TranaGreg]

you have to find the leader wild boar to stop them. but they also have joined in trying to stop sharia law from spreading Wild boar stampede crushes ISIS fighters

it's been said before, but we need a Like button.

[cardboardbox]

Yeah, I don't see anything wrong with it... even sounds somewhat necessary... just don't quite understand the person who enjoys this. Not my thing I guess.

agreed on all points.