Totally Insane and Dangerous Wild Animal Encounters

Wild Boar Mama

For one young man, hunting wild boar with his father was a favorite, albeit typically fruitless, pastime, until one day...

"When I was five I lived in Berlin, Germany. I had an obsession with trying to hunt and kill wild boars in the forest so my dad and I would walk around with “spears “ sharpened twigs basically. We never saw any so it wasn’t a huge deal until one day we spooked a mother and her piglets. Next thing my dad sees is me chasing them until the sow stops turns all 200 pounds towards me and stares me down. Luckily my dad scooped me up before I could charge because I was about to. Hindsight 20/20 don’t do that. I would have probably been mauled…”

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.