How to bring up a boy to kill

[Wulfman]

Large boar are often criticized as tough and not fit for human consumption but that is flat out WRONG!!

Many restaurants with more stars than you can count consider boar as a high end table fare and the bigger, older boars well over 200 lbs

well, but between 200 ibs (which I consider perfectly fine for consumption, although I'd go for something smaller if I have the choice) and the 1000 pound reported above is a rather large difference. doesn't seem to be insignificant.

mfg
wulfman

[DGhost]

it took them a backhoe to remove the dead boar and he plans on making sausages. i seriously doubt that he had quality cooking in mind when he shot it.

[Mehen]

I've eaten wild boar before - it was EXCELLENT.

[Dr Mordrid]

I've eaten boar that were over 600 lbs and it was great.

[schmosef]

my head is spinning with the implications: Man Shoots Wendy's Manager Over Chili Sauce

[James_D]

That reminds me of what I thought was a good movie.. Falling Down with Michael Douglas.

[Jessterw]

Reminds me of the Mexicans that got in a gun fight over who was - I kid you not - standing in line first at a taco stand in Tulsa.

[Gurm]

Reminds me of the Mexicans that got in a gun fight over who was - I kid you not - standing in line first at a taco stand in Tulsa.

That reminds me of the security guard that called the police over... wait, you guys have heard this one, right?

[Gurm]

On my way home from the second job I've taken for the extra holiday ca$h I need, I stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. In my billfold is a $50 bill and a $2 bill. That is all of the cash I have on my person. I figure that with a $2 bill, I can get something to eat and not have to worry about people getting upset at me.

ME: ``Hi, I'd like one seven layer burrito please, to go.''
IT: ``Is that it?''
ME: ``Yep.''
IT: ``That'll be $1.04, eat here?''
ME: ``No, it's to go.'' [I hate effort duplication.]

At his point I open my billfold and hand him the $2 bill. He looks at it kind of funny and

IT: ``Uh, hang on a sec, I'll be right back.''

He goes to talk to his manager, who is still within earshot. The following conversation occurs between the two of them.

IT: ``Hey, you ever see a $2 bill?''
MG: ``No. A what?''
IT: ``A $2 bill. This guy just gave it to me.''
MG: ``Ask for something else, there's no such thing as a $2 bill.'' [my emp]
IT: ``Yeah, thought so.''

He comes back to me and says

IT: ``We don't take these. Do you have anything else?''
ME: ``Just this fifty. You don't take $2 bills? Why?''
IT: ``I don't know.''
ME: ``See here where it says legal tender?''
IT: ``Yeah.''
ME: ``So, shouldn't you take it?''
IT: ``Well, hang on a sec.''

He goes back to his manager who is watching me like I'm going to shoplift, and

IT: ``He says I have to take it.''
MG: ``Doesn't he have anything else?''
IT: ``Yeah, a fifty. I'll get it and you can open the safe and get change.''
MG: ``I'm not opening the safe with him in here.'' [my emp]
IT: ``What should I do?''
MG: ``Tell him to come back later when he has real money.''
IT: ``I can't tell him that, you tell him.''
MG: ``Just tell him.''
IT: ``No way, this is weird, I'm going in back.''


The manager approaches me and says

MG: ``Sorry, we don't take big bills this time of night.'' [it was 8pm and this particular Taco Bell is in a well lighted indoor mall with 100 other stores.]
ME: ``Well, here's a two.''
MG: ``We don't take those either.''
ME: ``Why not?''
MG: ``I think you know why.''
ME: ``No really, tell me, why?''
MG: ``Please leave before I call mall security.''
ME: ``Excuse me?''
MG: ``Please leave before I call mall security.''
ME: ``What for?''
MG: ``Please, sir.''
ME: ``Uh, go ahead, call them.''
MG: ``Would you please just leave?''
ME: ``No.''
MG: ``Fine, have it your way then.''
ME: ``No, that's Burger King, isn't it?''

At this point he backs away from me and calls mall security on the phone around the corner. I have two people staring at me from the dining area, and I begin laughing out loud, just for effect. A few minutes later this 45 year oldish guy comes in and says [at the other end of counter, in a whisper]

SG: ``Yeah, Mike, what's up?''
MG: ``This guy is trying to give me some [pause] funny money.''
SG: ``Really? What?''
MG: ``Get this, a two dollar bill.''
SG: ``Why would a guy fake a $2 bill?'' [incredulous]
MG: ``I don't know? He's kinda weird. Says the only other thing he has is a fifty.''
SG: ``So, the fifty's fake?''
MG: ``No, the $2 is.''
SG: ``Why would he fake a $2 bill?''
MG: ``I don't know. Can you talk to him, and get him out of here?''
SG: ``Yeah...''


Security guard walks over to me and says

SG: ``Mike here tells me you have some fake bills you're trying to use.''
ME: ``Uh, no.''
SG: ``Lemme see 'em.''
ME: ``Why?''
SG: ``Do you want me to get the cops in here?''

At this point I was ready to say, ``SURE, PLEASE,'' but I wanted to eat, so I said

ME: ``I'm just trying to buy a burrito and pay for it with this $2 bill.''

I put the bill up near his face, and he flinches like I was taking a swing at him. He takes the bill, turns it over a few times in his hands, and says

SG: ``Mike, what's wrong with this bill?''
MG: ``It's fake.''
SG: ``It doesn't look fake to me.''
MG: ``But it's a $2 bill.''
SG: ``Yeah?''
MG: ``Well, there's no such thing, is there?''

The security guard and I both looked at him like he was an idiot, and it dawned on the guy that he had no clue.

My burrito was free and he threw in a small drink and those cinnamon things, too. Makes me want to get a whole stack of $2 bills just to see what happens when I try to buy stuff. If I got the right group of people, I could probably end up in jail. At least I'd get free food.

[Gurm]

That story was actually a post from Captain Sarcastic (and who knows if his stories are true or not), but according to Snopes, apparently a guy really WAS arrested for paying for his Best Buy purchase with $2 bills. Wow.

[KRSESQ]

So the story unravels: the pig was not feral; it was farm-raised and pen-hunted.

Doesn't say how big the pen was. But even if it was several acres or more, it's hardly sporting.

Not exactly "hunting" in my book.

Kevin

[Jessterw]

I'm sure someone will still find a way to justify it. Of course, there's very little 'real' hunting happening anymore. Reminds me of deer hunters who put out feeders and then brag about the stag they hunted down.

Please.

[Wulfman]

So the story unravels: the pig was not feral; it was farm-raised and pen-hunted.

Doesn't say how big the pen was. But even if it was several acres or more, it's hardly sporting.

Not exactly "hunting" in my book.

Kevin

I'm impressed, apparently the friend of mine (hunter) whom I asked about the pig had a very good eye.

gun-issues aside, was that really a wild pig, or rather a descendant of house pigs? I heard the latter tend to be bigger.

mfg
wulfman

[Jessterw]

I love this comment:

"We were told that it was a feral hog," Mike Stone said, "and we hunted it on the pretense that it was a feral hog."

Yeah, inside a pen. Bet he catches his trout at a fish farm too.

[jms]

Pathetic