"Disoriented" wild pig with injuries to its face, likely sustained from hunting dogs, goes after Oahu surfer.
A North Shore surfer, a vet of thirty-five years, has survived a hit by a wild boar while surfing a secret-ish outer reef a third of a mile out to sea near mythical Kaena Point, that “narrow, dry, west-pointing finger of land located on the northwest tip of Oahu.”
Ingrid Seiple was surfing a joint she’d never ridden with “slabs of coral coming out of the water” when she saw a dark shape in the water. Seiple figured it was a Hawaiian monk seal, then a log with fibres coming off the trunk but when she looked a little closer, a head came out of the water and,“That’s when I realized it was a pig and it saw me. It started swimming toward me as fast as it could! I was shocked,” Seiple told KITV4. “I was trying to paddle away, it was very close and it was getting closer. I pushed the board between the pig and I and it bit my board.”
As the boar hit her board, Seiple dived underwater to escape its jaws.
“It looked very disoriented. It turned out to sea and started swimming. When I came up it was still swimming out to sea.”
Seiple’s theory is the boar was chased into the water by hunting dogs, injuries on its face a reflection of its own existential flight.
Watch Seiple recount the event here!
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The Hawaiians say that there are bad spirits at Kaena Point.
I did realize those spirits manifested themselves as a wild pig.
Perhaps some
Magic mushrooms were involved in this situation?
Possible…
“Boars to Beaches” – new global campaign to counter shark attacks and help balance the natural ecosystem – what could go wrong? Razorback vs Jaws and a new movie series there is coin it!
Sounds like she hasn’t been practising her ‘surf scowl’ to scare it off.
P.S.
The pig probably thought she was Mark Healy wearing a wig (kinda looks like it) and was coming out to avenge all the boars Healy shot while bowhunting…
Wild boar is tassssteeee!!!
From ocean to plate ja! https://www.youtube.com/wat…
What would Surfline Man have done?
Karma is a sow.
Who says localism is dead?
No humans allowed at Wild Pig Reef.
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Kai-Borg. My board. Die boar. Tiger.
Wave hog and globe trotter Ingrid, not know for hamming it up, is well known for hocking her snout into the belly of a few meaty loins. Does she bacon? Only when pulled. Don’t expect her story to chop and change.
I’ll see myself out. Spare me the ribbing.
Nailed it!
The Pig and I
Pig Dogging Pig Dog Dodging.
And that children, is how I met your mother.
But anyway, she found $50.
An engrossing story about a disorientated, antagonistic boar.
Alternatively, if you’d like to read a story about a disorientated, antagonistic bore, check out the Ben Marcus article.
I kinda liked it.
The parallel between Taylor Mead and Jewnah cannot be ignored.
Dickheads craving acceptance ….
Story of my life.
You mean you actually read that crap? At least it looks like he didn’t use a letter and a bunch of lines for peoples names. Unfortunately, it also looks like he name drops to no end. I can’t be bothered to read it but got that from a quick scan.
Biography?
Boar me.
Bwaahh!!
Just read Ben’s article and I will buy a starlink for my Sprinter. But I’ll likely need to have a custom rack made to carry my Mick Fanning soft top collection as the ideal spot for the Link, as I’ll now call it, is right where the rack rolls off of the top…
I’ve never been a Warhol fan either.
I’d rather watch the grass grow than read anything written by Marcunt.
Sounds like a sequal to Planet Of The Apes, oops Planet of the Boars in coming our way in real time. My guess is that boar is telling his mates about the haole invader he scared the shit out of…