Boars on the box.

[Grooveski]

Rouge Raiders:Wild Boar

Jake Willers continues his assessment of antisocial animals by investigating the resurgence of wild boar in Britain's countryside, and examining the problems they create. He also travels to Berlin, where the animals have been spotted in residential areas, and speaks to expert Derk Ehlert about the threat they pose.

Tonight Channel 5 7:15pm

 

[jdlenton]

thanks for that groove i'll have a look could be quite intersting


James

 

[pibbleb]

Watched and found very interesting. Defo don't want to bump in to one of them when I creep out of my basha for a number one at 3a.m. If you know what I mean

Pib

 

[jdlenton]

Well that was a reasonable bit of telly, it was amazing to see that they have urban boar in Berlin 1000's of em. I wasn't that impressed with the beginning of the program it was to be scaremongering, mega pigs that attack on site this, disease carrying that ,destroyers of land and property the other, but as the program progressed it became more sympathetic towards the boar and eventually concluded that we should count are selves lucky that we are regaining a long lost mammal species. Well done channel five not a bad piece of reporting.

James

 

[Rod]

Got rumbled by an angry male whilst on exercise in Berlin in '82. Ran between two hootchies in the wee small hours and scared the c*** out us at the time. Laugh about it now, but we were lucky at the time, they can be viscious.

 

[moduser]

James,

I agree with you. A reasonable bit of TV that appeared to be very anti boar until the last few minutes. Any casual watcher who did not wait for the conclusions would assume that these beutiful animals need to be at least culled or wiped out immeadiatley.

It's a shame the programme was edited to show a balanced view throughout.

David

 

[Grooveski]

Entertaining for sure, I nearly laughed my beer out when they were chasing them round that boatyard.

Thought they were a bit quick to downplay the foot and mouth threat. Saying that the boars had got through the last crisis didn't really close the book on it for me, I know a few farmers who wouldn't be comfortable with another wild potential carrier around.
....and wasn't sure if baiting them in Berlin to gauge aggression levels done them justice. Those boars were obviously more used to human presence than wood dwellers.

Interesting stuff though.