When Pigs Party
January 1st officially ushered in the Year of the Boar in Japan (which follows the Solar calendar rather than the Lunar one). So it was obviously time for the wild boars to party. And they did, by attempting to hold a human roast in the rural city of Yawatahama on Shikoku Island.
TOKYO (AFP) - Four Japanese nationals needed no reminding that the year of the pig had arrived when they were attacked by wild boars in a rural city on New Year's Day.
The four, aged between 56 and 77, sustained slight leg or head injuries when three wild boars went on the rampage in a residential area in Yawatahama on the island of Shikoku on Monday afternoon, police said Tuesday.
"Some 15 local hunters tried to track down the boars after they went back into the mountains," a duty officer at the police station in Yawatahama, a seaside city of 41,000 people, said by telephone.
"They abandoned the hunt after a couple of hours and we alerted the citizens to be aware of boars by the public address system," he said.
This is a disturbing new trend in the Animal Uprising™. Themed attacks designed to conform to human events. It is a good thing there isn't a year of the seagull, isn't it? But next year will be the year of the rat. There's something to look forward to. *Shudder*
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