It is that time of year when we are warned that boar are on the move. Actually twice recently the motorways round here have been closed as groups of boar were on the carriageway. A boar can do an awful lot of damage to a car.
We have noted that the start of the hunting season round here is always marked by the tale of some poor defenceless aged peasant driving home late at night who is willfully attacked in his car by a wild boar. The outcome varies, but the most common version is that said poor peasant is in hospital, the car is written off, the boar escapes and had to be tracked down by the plucky hunters, who donate a large portion of the kill to a local OAP home canteen.
My interpretation is that some drunken old boy with dodgy vision is driving along in his "sans permis" car (small metal box powered by lawnmower engine), sees movement and chases it, thinking it is a good idea and he is indestructable as he is drunk and in his little car, but o dear, a boar is bigger and stronger than said car.
Be that as it may, many round here have noticed that while boar get ever more common, hunters who can actually shoot one get ever more rare, being more likely to shoot each other, their dogs or buildings (some friends lost a bathroom window which looked suspicious).
This year the local paper has been giving out advice as to what to do if you meet a boar on the road. You are recommended not to try to hit it - they make an awful mess of the car. If you can't avoid it, make sure it is dead (not sure how you are meant to do that), call the police and inform them you hit and killed it, and load the carcase in the car for consumption at home. If you fail to call the police and are caught with it, you may be done for killing animals with an unapproved method!
My reading of this is that your car is knackered so while you save the money to get the car fixed, you have something to eat at any rate!
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