Woman held hostage by pig

[ZenGum]

From the ABC:

A pig has turned on a woman who tried to look after it, effectively holding her hostage on a property in northern New South Wales.

Sixty-three-year-old Caroline Hayes says she has been unable to leave her Uki house to use the farm's outdoor toilet at times because the white pig is aggressive towards her.

Ms Hayes says the animal came from a home two kilometres away, but its owners could not handle it and let it loose in the rainforest.

She says she and her neighbours began feeding the pig, who they named 'Bruce', after it first showed up at their homes 10 days ago.

"When I found it, it had 15 ticks in its eyes which I actually took out," she said.

"One of its eyes it couldn't see out of, so I put cream in it and I fixed its back up, but apparently it's actually claimed my land and claimed my place."

Ms Hayes says the pig became aggressive when it wanted more food, recently biting her on the leg when she tried to go to the toilet.

"It started getting very pushy, started pushing me around, so I started to get a bit frightened, until the stage that it started knocking on my door at 4 o'clock in the morning, actually head-butting my door," she said.

She says she locked herself into her house yesterday afternoon and was too afraid to get out until late this morning.

"This morning, I wanted to go to my toilet, which is outside. I opened up the door and the pig pushed me that hard, it pushed me back into my room, where I fell over," she said.

"I picked up a broom and poked him out with it and he snapped it in half with his mouth."

Even rangers from Murwillumbah Council have failed to capture the animal, which Ms Hayes claimed was as big as a shetland pony.



"The rangers came out to my house yesterday with a dog cage and this pig is that big, it's like trying to put an elephant in a dog cage," Ms Hayes said.

"They tried for a little while and they couldn't do it. They got him halfway in and he just backed off and went back to my dam, where he was having a lovely time in the water."

SNIP

Rangers will try to capture the pig today but Ms Hayes says she does not want to know what they plan to do with it.

"I haven't stopped crying because I'm a major animal lover and a vegetarian," she said.

Uki is in the North-Eastern part of New South Wales, where the "back to the land" alternative movement tends to head for, and the place is festooned with rainbow dolphins and wizard bongs.

Since it broke, the story has been all over the electronic media. The woman is doing radio interviews and talkback is active.

Today's developments are:

A large pig that has been terrorising a woman on the New South Wales north coast will be sent to a piggery after it is captured tomorrow morning.

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Pest Animal Ranger Len Hing from the Tweed Lismore Rural Lands Protection Board visited the animal today.

Mr Hing says while the pig is friendly, its large size makes it difficult to control it when it is hungry.



"He is a bald pig [weighing] about 80 kilos; I wouldn't like to see the pig go as a pet anywhere because he could become a potentially dangerous animal," he said.

The Rural Lands Protection Board says the pig will be removed tomorrow morning and relocated to a piggery.

[Ibby]

a what?
a piggery?

oh my god i figured it out
australia is story-book fairy princess land.
how do i get in?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Ibram

oh my god i figured it out
australia is story-book fairy princess land.
how do i get in?

not to mention the "rainbow dolphins and wizard bongs"

[Trilby]

that pig sounds like my boy-cat.

[lumberjim]

named bruce......snicker.....

[Sheldonrs]

Is that lipstick?

[glatt]

Maybe, but it's still a pig.

[BigV]

bwahahaHAHAHAHAHA!!

omg.


snicker.... sigh..



Good one!

[wolf]

This is what happens when countries ban guns ... pigs running rampant rather than being shot and turned into nice, decent bacon and ham and chops and tenderloin and sausages.

Instead, it sounds like they're going to put it on pig-welfare and give it pig-section 8.

I don't understand hippie socialists. I just don't.

[Aliantha]

Guns aren't banned. Anyone with a bit of land usually has at least a couple, if not a whole cabinet full of them.

The problem with this idiot woman is that she's a vego and doesn't want the pig slaughtered when it's taken away. That's why it hasn't been removed yet. Because they can't promise it wont be killed. I reckon I can see a very tasty xmas ham on that one. In fact, several.

I reckon she deserves what she gets if she's going to be that stupid, and what the hell she's doing on the regular news is beyond me. Aren't there more important things in the world than deep fried dimwits with attachments to psychotic pigs to report on?

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Aren't there more important things in the world than deep fried dimwits with attachments to psychotic pigs to report on?

uh . . . no?

[Shawnee123]

Prize for best alliterative sentence up thar, Ali!

[Clodfobble]

deep fried dimwits with attachments to psychotic pigs

I think Shawnee meant this part.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I think Shawnee meant this part.

Exactly...subtle alliteration, it's quite a poetic sentence.

[dar512]

The pig's punishment?





Being put out to stud.