Boaring in Essex...

Stick8267
Stick8267 Posts: 154
edited October 2010 in The bottom bracket
My wife (not normally prone to hysteria or fantasy) swears blind she saw a wild boar run across the road while she was cycling through Epping Forest. :shock:

I know they are in Kent but are there boar up here too?

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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Two possibilities I can think of:

    1) Your wife got abducted by aliens and when they wiped her memory ready for the return to Earth, it temporarily left her mind in a state of hyper-suggestibility. It was probably only a rabbit. But a very special rabbit.

    2) It was a boar running across the road.
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Aren't they meant to uncompromisingly tenacious and defend their territory with all vigour often attacking the genitals.....not sure what the boar's like though :wink:
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  • Stick8267
    Stick8267 Posts: 154
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    Aren't they meant to uncompromisingly tenacious and defend their territory with all vigour often attacking the genitals.....not sure what the boar's like though :wink:

    You've met her then......
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Stick8267 wrote:
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    Aren't they meant to uncompromisingly tenacious and defend their territory with all vigour often attacking the genitals.....not sure what the boar's like though :wink:

    You've met her then......

    Oh, I thought Cleat was talking about the rabbit...

    On a more serious note, it's not impossible that it was a boar, just very surprising. It wouldn't have been a native boar, because I'm pretty sure they all got eradicated. But there are a few that are raised for meat. I'm sure I remember there having been a boar problem somewhere in the West Country where boar had been set free.
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  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    Stick8267 wrote:
    My wife (not normally prone to hysteria or fantasy) swears blind she saw a wild boar run across the road while she was cycling through Epping Forest. :shock:

    I know they are in Kent but are there boar up here too?
    Very possibly. I have seen far more obscure beasts in that forest ....
  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    perfectly possible.....we do have black jaguars roaming around some parts of england afterall !
  • zippypablo
    zippypablo Posts: 398
    giant mancp wrote:
    Stick8267 wrote:
    My wife (not normally prone to hysteria or fantasy) swears blind she saw a wild boar run across the road while she was cycling through Epping Forest. :shock:

    I know they are in Kent but are there boar up here too?
    Very possibly. I have seen far more obscure beasts in that forest ....
    unicorns? :D
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  • Weejie54
    Weejie54 Posts: 750
    One was reported in West Hanningfield in 1997, and several in the Tiptree area the year before, according to this:

    http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images ... 6-4512.pdf
  • oscarbudgie
    oscarbudgie Posts: 850
    giant mancp wrote:
    Stick8267 wrote:
    My wife (not normally prone to hysteria or fantasy) swears blind she saw a wild boar run across the road while she was cycling through Epping Forest. :shock:

    I know they are in Kent but are there boar up here too?
    Very possibly. I have seen far more obscure beasts in that forest ....

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