Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/18/berlin-police-block-a-road-to.html
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What sells it for me is the skittering of the baby boar hooves. 
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Wild boar have been a problem in Berlin for decades now.
They’re also pretty vicious so don’t think the police blocked the road for the animals’ sake.
“(Schw)einsatz” is pretty funny, though.
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Of course it’s in noble Zehlendorf district where they have no bigger problems than to “drive a sow through the village” (German proverb amounting to “much ado about nothing”)
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Free range bacon and sausage! Get some, Berliners!
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Ich bin ein Baconeer.
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Only one sure way to get rid of a wild boar infestation in Europe:
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Heh, send those lads to Berlin.
Berlin really has a boar problem for many years. If you are not German and have never been to Berlin, Berlin is a huge, HUGE city. It has many large parks and even forest areas where boars thrive.
Of course they are hunted for food, but they also have to be checked for radioactivity first. Radioactive boars are a thing here.
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So many piglets! I’m simultaneously thinking “oh, so cute!” and “oh, hell!”
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Robert Baratheon probably wishes he had this kind of help…
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We’ve got a boar problem here in the states too, but why are yours radioactive? (could look it up, but I imagine that there’s an interesting story that can better be told by someone not limited by publishing constraints…).
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chernobyl. the boars eat mushrooms, which are still sucking caesium 137 out of the ground. its not so much a problem in berlin and the northern part of germany, but in the south:
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In the US, I generally don’t care much for hunting, but I do recognize it as helpful control mechanism for deer and hogs. I’ve personally lived in an area induated with deer, and a simple drive in the evening can be a situation filled with fear of hitting one. They’re not endangered, they’re a serious problem left unchecked, not just in driving, but in disease, since they’re a vector for bovine tuberlocusis.
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I don’t believe we’re supposed to encourage violence against police officers in this forum.
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Just needs some free range chickens dropping eggs and some iso sourdough loaves bouncing behind. YUM!
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Non-slave magical animal. Dangerous but tasty.
Seems to work for deer (also big problem with deer for chronic wasting disease), but it doesn’t seem to do well to control pig populations due to their crazy reproductive rate.
Much more robust eradication programs need to be in place for any hope of controlling pig populations (and also there’s a big concern with wild pig populations and the potential spread of African Swine Fever).
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When I first learned of radioactive boars roaming the forests and countryside, sweeping across the landscape, it read like a very low-budget horror movie.
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So you’re saying it’s possible to deal with 30 to 50 feral hogs without a machine gun?
For us it’s just part of the decline of quality of life Chernobyl has brought. That’s why I get angry when the world thinks of Chernobyl as last year’s HBO sensation rather than a very real thing to this day for large parts of Europe. It’s probably also why I have no time for people on the internet lecturing me on the perceived lack of wisdom of Germany’s phasing out of its nuclear power. They’re usually not the ones that cannot eat large amounts of boar or mushrooms from their own forests. (Sometimes boar carcasses even have to be thrown away whole when they fail the radiation test)
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