Glen Dobbs and a friend, named only as Adrian, were out fishing in a tournament over the weekend when they encountered a wild boar swimming a few kilometres off the coast of the Coromandel town. They were cruising along on their way to a fishing spot when they noticed a black shape bobbing up and down right in front of them and it was the pig swimming way out in the ocean.
Luckily they had a solid hull because they hit the pig doing about 15-20 knots. It floated up behind the boat and they turned around and went back. The baffled pair struggled to haul the tired animal out of the water, before putting it out of its misery with a fishing knife. Once the bewilderment wore off, they set to gutting it in the hope of keeping the meat.
"As soon as we gutted it and chucked all of that over, heaps of sharks came around and that was the end of the fishing," he said. "We put up with the smell for a couple of hours, and in the end, I said, mate, we've got to chuck the rest over. I've been fishing heaps and I've never seen anything like it," Mr Dobbs said. The pig didn't win the men the competition
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I live just down the road from Whitianga, at Waihi, the talk around here is that the two didn't hit the pig with the boat at all, they came up beside it and stabbed it while it was in the water.
They are saying they hit it because they are getting a hard time as everyone is saying that any normal human being would have rescued the pig, taken it back to shore.
Seems the two blokes are nasty people.
Many thanks for the info, William Rocket!
The rumors may be true, it's hard to believe they saw it ahead and still hit it. Anyone with boating experience learned from Titanic, you do everything possible to avoid hitting objects in the water. However, bring a live 63kg Boar aboard a small boat? That's crazy talk, those things are dangerous, and it would certainly be freaked.
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