Thread: not again

I feel it has to be said, in the few years I lived in coromandel, I've driven the 309 road, and there always pigs on the road outside his place. I know the police have been out there multiple times, but we're unable to do anything because legally, they could not. The pigs were not ear tagged, therefore feral/wild, the fences could not contain them either. Upon chatting with him one day, he said the pigs were like family to him. A bit odd but ok. I don't know of any farmers who believes their stock are like family... at some point, if it were in his shoes, i would feel the necessity to fence and tag animals so the law could be enforced. From what I've observed and heard about the man, i would not call him and farmer, just my opinion though, and I've hunted and helped out on farms most of my adult life. On the flip side, there is a bunch of riff raff that feel the right to help themselves and if je had been threatened multiple times by gang members as someone pointed out, or even Joe bloggs average pig hunter, i can see how he was pushed to this irrecoverable abhorrent act.