Giant pig traps woman in house.

Here is a story I ran across this morning.
A 63 yr. old Australian woman got trapped in her house by a giant pig she tried to care for.
It was interesting to me because this has become an occasional problem on the Appalachian Trail, and in some remote areas in NC feral dogs are a problem.
For some reason these encounters don't seem to get reported by the local (Southeastern US) media.

Here is a link to the Sky News site.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Australia-Huge-Pig-Traps-Woman-Inside-Home-In-Uki-New-South-Wales/Article/200809415105196?lpos=Strange_News_Third_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15105196_Australia%3A_Huge_Pig_Traps_Woman_Inside_Home_In_Uki%2C_New_South_Wales

Enjoy, I did.

Feral pigs are an occasional problem in California, particularly in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Ventana, and in some parks in the SFBay Area. It is mostly the sows with piglets that are the problem, though an occasional boar will get aggressive. Since the pigs are non-native (escaped from the Spanish colonizers back in the 18th Century), there have been eradication programs. These are successful for a time, but the pigs breed and have few natural predators (apparently mountain lions don't like to tangle with large boars and angry mama sows).

I went on a hike in TX years ago, right on the mexican border, and i remember warning signs everywhere for Javelinas (wild pigs). Apparently theyre pretty dangerous as well, you dont want to run across them.

Javelina are a very distant cousin to domestic pigs and the feral pigs that descended from escaped domestic pigs. Plus they are a lot smaller. They are very aggressive, however. Javelina get to a bit above knee-height, where the feral pigs around here get up to 4 feet at the shoulder. It is rather intimidating to be sitting at the picnic table in a campground late at night and discover a big boar peering over your shoulder (it's happened to me - their breath is really foul!).

They are intimidating, there have been a couple harvested around here in excess of 1000 lbs. That's a lot of bacon!

They do a lot of damage, apparently they haven't heard of LNT.

We had a few wild boar attacks here in N.E. PA a few years back. Finally, when a woman got trapped in her own back yard, her husband shot and killed the 150+ pound swine. It's skull is now on display at our environmental ed. center as a reminder of the problems introduced and feral species can cause.