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TexasTowelie

(111,288 posts)
Tue Dec 4, 2018, 12:17 AM Dec 2018

Aggressive pigs becoming a nuisance at some state parks

A visit to Hawaii Island’s state parks provides a close encounter with nature — sometimes, a bit too close for comfort.

When two Hilo Medical Center employees, including its chief executive officer, visited Rainbow Falls in Wailuku River State Park on Wednesday morning prior to work, they found themselves scurrying back to their cars to avoid an aggressive feral pig.

“I go there every morning before I go to work,” said Michelle, a HMC technician who asked that her last name not be used. Michelle said when she arrived on Wednesday, her boss, Dan Brinkman, the East Hawaii region CEO of Hawaii Health Systems Corp., was there, as was a feral pig Michelle said had become too accustomed to being fed by people.

“The pig was going either for the garbage or for Dan,” she said. “I made noise to let Dan know and try to startle the pig, but the pig didn’t startle. So I got out of my car and was waving a piece of paper, trying to get it to go. And it just ran at me. And it did it three times, so I kept running back to my car.”

Read more: https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2018/12/03/hawaii-news/aggressive-pigs-becoming-a-nuisance-at-some-state-parks/

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Aggressive pigs becoming a nuisance at some state parks (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2018 OP
What is Devin Nunes doing in Hawaii? Oh...THOSE aggressive pigs... flibbitygiblets Dec 2018 #1
When I was stationed in S E Texas, we had a huge problem with Javalinas. Haggis for Breakfast Dec 2018 #2

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
1. What is Devin Nunes doing in Hawaii? Oh...THOSE aggressive pigs...
Tue Dec 4, 2018, 12:26 AM
Dec 2018

Actually I am heading to HI on Sunday--will report back on this feral pig situation.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
2. When I was stationed in S E Texas, we had a huge problem with Javalinas.
Tue Dec 4, 2018, 01:26 AM
Dec 2018

They are a small, but nasty, ill-tempered, razor-sharp fanged feral pig and they travel in packs. A part of the base had fallen into disrepair but had a long stretch of road that ran through it so a lot of joggers used it. As the sun set one Sunday, one of our pilots was jogging back there and got attacked by a pack of them. They tore his legs apart. Shredded his skin and sliced his tendons. Poor man had more surgeries than I can remember. He never flew again and was medically-retired.

Base C O put that part of the base off-limits to everyone, pressed into detail our on-base contingent of Marines and after a week - no more Javalinas.

Those things are meaner than a nest of rattlesnakes.

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