Wild boar speared to death after rampage through city
Mainichi
NISHINOMIYA, Hyogo -- A wild boar was speared to death after rampaging through the streets of Nishinomiya and running away from police and local hunters who beat it with a stick, police said.
Police said the 100-kilogram male boar was discovered with another boar thought to be its offspring at a park in Nishinomiya at about 3 a.m. on Saturday.
It disappeared, but reappeared about two hours later near the bus terminal of Hanshin Koshien Station about two kilometers away.
At about 8 a.m., about a dozen police officers and three members of a local hunting association cornered the animal and hit it with a stick in the compound of a prefectural operated apartment complex in an attempt to knock it unconscious, but it ran away.
The boar was captured with a net in another part of the city after running for about 1 kilometer, and was then speared to death.
"It posed a danger to people in the city," a member of the local hunting association said over the decision to kill the animal. "It was big and capturing it alive was extremely dangerous." (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Jan. 8, 2005)
I also changed jobs, so it's only 5K if I do ride.
