“He came to me, and he was literally flying, and I jumped up on the gate,” Fox said. “But I did not jump high enough or fast enough, and he hit me.”
The hog’s tusk dug several inches into Fox’s calf. A doctor later closed the wound with more than 100 stitches.
Full story. (h/t to CHLGuy’s Twitter feed)
Hard to say exactly why he got rushed, but with water and thus also food being so hard to come by right now, critters are wandering further, getting more difficult to deal with. They are also showing up in urban areas.
Your pepper spray and cell phone and “self-defense clinic” aren’t going to do you much good here… even a good pair of Nike’s won’t help you for very long. A .44 Magnum on the other hand….
Stuff From Hsoi 
One of my late uncles used to have a nasty scar that went from his ankle halfway up his outer thigh; he got it from a feral hog in the woods in Arkansas.
Ouch! They are nasty bastards.
As I read this, I am sitting on the front porch of our ranch, smoking a cheap cigar, listening to the pigs down at the tank below our house. We don’t let the kids out at night much.
We do a lot of pig hunting at night with dogs and knives and I have seen and stitched up some pretty nasty wounds (on both dogs and dumbasses). Almost makes me wanna call the boys for some late night fun… but its still about 95 degrees, so it’ll wait.
Yeah, I don’t blame you for not letting the kids out at night… not if you’ve got hogs running around like that.
I’ve wanted to do some hog hunting myself but like you… it’s just too hot. 🙂