Less-lethal devices: Unethical for harvesting boar

What would he have done had it worked? It only works when the juice is flowing and I doubt he has the know how or huevos to toss and tie it up!
Good he didn't get the horn for tryin' that stunt!
Brent
 
Swampghost said:
I don't want to look. This has PETA written all over it.
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Officer just tried to tazer a porker tearing up somebody's back yard. If he'd have just gone to his trunk, sounds like he'd have had a full freezer and a trophy to boot. Bummer.
 
How the heck does a wild bore flash his tusks toward onlookers. Man these ediots that write should learn how dumb it makes them look trying to spice things up. I don't think I have ever seen a wild bore smile much less flash someone.
As far as the tazer, I see nothing wrong with trying to rid a yard of a wild hog without having to kill it and do not see anything unethical about it. H*ll they use these on humans and someone is saying it wrong or unethical for hogs, come on now I feel sure you can find something better to do with your spare time.
 
VA, Hogs gnash their teeth at threats. it serves a dual purpose. First it is possibly going to intimidate the threat but more important it is sharpening them. The top tusks are called wetters as they act as the wet stone to keep the bottom tusks VERY sharp.
As for the use of the taser I am not crying the blues for the pig. Heck I use a lasso dropped in a trap to get the hog by the neck and raise him off his front feet until he passes out so I can extract him and tie him with less risk of injury to my self of bystanding gawkers.
When LEO uses the taser on ahuman he is doing it to drop the BG so he can be pounced on and cuffed. Had this worked on the hog it may have fell over but what do they do next? It takes practice to tie or even hand cuff a hog. Once the copper had tried to pounce on the hog there is a very real possibility he could have been severely injured as could by standers. These hogs often right over a person as they flee.
Brent
 
VaFisher said:
H*ll they use these on humans and someone is saying it wrong or unethical for hogs, come on now I feel sure you can find something better to do with your spare time.
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I said "Unethical for harvesting", not use in general. Meaning, it doesn't kill them (at least not cleanly), which was facetious because so many people ask questions like "Is a .12-caliber rimfire enough gun for leopard?" Unless you were referring to the author, who also didn't really condemn the use, just said it didn't work for the intended purpose. The grinning face image after the link was there to make sure that those who didn't get the humor in the article/situation would know they're supposed to laugh.
 
Even for 'general use,' the Taser was ineffective. Given the difference in thickness between a human's sking and a boar's skin, that is the result I would have expected.

I'm amazed the officer even tried this.

Hope he never runs into a big cat that's escaped from a zoo.
 
Yea, I have to say it sounded so out of the normal way of dealing with any type hog much less a wild one that the guy simply learned a valuble leason or I at least hope he did for the safety of others around him. I am sure the folk's around him when this took place learned avaluble leason also, run like H*ll when you see this guy coming would be some good advise.
 
Can anyone say suppressed .22?

I'm willing to bet this was part of a "I wonder what happens if..." sesson while off duty. Like the title says, unless we're talking heavily populated subdivision, sounds like a good purpose for a suppressed .22 or .44. And if we are talking dense housing, a Polyshock (fragmenting) slug to the neck would work well too.
 
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