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Bandera Wild Hog Explosion cancelled after (ironic) death threats from animal rights activists

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The Wild Hog Explosion has been called off by the Bandera County Library’s board of directors after a Bandera treatment center backed out of an agreement to operate the annual fundraising event in the face of angry criticism and reportedly threats from an animal rights organization that was protesting the show.

John Pearce, the vice president of the library’s board of directors, said the board met on Monday, March 4, and decided unanimously to cancel the Wild Hog Explosion because Warriors Heart had advised it by letter that it was withdrawing from a one-year agreement to host all but one event at the show and the board did not think it had the time to pull the event together itself or find another organization to step in for Warriors Heart.

The Wild Hog Explosion, which features contests pitting wild hogs against teams of youngsters who try to catch the fleeing animals in a small ring, place them in a sack and carry the past a finish line in the shortest time possible, is a major fundraiser for the library. The event was scheduled to be held at Mansfield Park on March 16 in what would have been its 17th year of operation but with someone other than the library as its prime operator.

“(Warriors Heart’s) decision will stand. There’s not enough time for us to do it,” said Pearce. “We’ve very disappointed it won’t happen.”

Josh Lannon, the founder and president of Warriors Heart, a treatment facility for military veterans and members of first responder organization, was out of the country but was available to comment about the situation by text.

He said his organization got involved in the event to help the library and the Bandera community by putting on a needed fundraiser that the library board was having a difficult time putting on itself.

“After really getting into it, we began to see how much anger and confusion there is around the event, especially with the hog sacking portion,” Lannon said in one of his texts.

He said Warriors Heart chose to withdraw from the agreement “after a chain of events,” and the final decision came after Warriors Heart officials talked to “fellow

business owners who were being threatened by animal activist.”

Lannon had texted on Thursday, Feb. 28, that Warriors Heart was “getting death threats from the activists” as well.

The Bandera Bulletin mistakenly reported in the Wednesday, Feb. 27 edition of the newspaper that Warriors Heart was excited to be part of the event and instead was “very concerned” about the explosion, which critics in the activist group were calling “animal cruelty,” wrote Lannon.

“This is something that Warrior Heart will not be part of,” Lannon said in text on Saturday, March 2, that confirmed his organization would not be supporting the event.

“(The) Warriors Heart mission and focus it to bring healing to our nation’s warriors and the community. The Wild Hog Explosion was now in conflict with our purpose and creating more ham to our community than good,” the center’s president said in a text on Monday, March 4.

Pearce said he had not received threats from the protesting group called Unparalleled Suffering and he was not aware of any other sponsoring agencies that had been threatened.

The library board official said last week that he thought the protestors had been misinformed about how the event was run. The hogs got plenty of water to drink during the contest, were kept in the shade before being released into a pen and were only used once during the show, Pearce said.

The board’s decision to cancel the show was not significantly influenced by the complaints and allegations of Unparalleled Suffering, which has been organizing its protest and commenting on other animal rights issues on its Facebook page, Pearce said. He said the decision was primarily the result of Warriors Heart’s decision not to be involved in the activity.

With less than two weeks until the event was scheduled to be held and without being able to identify another organization capable of pulling the event together in that time, the board chose to shut down the event this year.

Pearce did say the library board will still hold the one event it always had planned to operate – the Bacon Bingo, raffle-like event – though it will not be operated like it was before.

Instead of selling numbers on 300 squares that are laid out on the ground and awarding a $1,000 prize to the holder of the number where a pig first deposits his load, the library will hold a drawing for the winning ticket at the library on March 16, Pearce said.

Only a few tickets remain available for the event. Pearce said anyone interested in buying a ticket should make an inquiry at the library at 515 Main St. in Bandera or by calling 830-796-4213.

Attempts to obtain a comment from a representative of Unparalleled Suffering were unsuccessful.

On its Facebook page, it had called the explosion a festival “centered around disrespect and abuse of wild pigs” and urged its supporters to call the library, the Bandera County Chamber of Commerce and other local officials or send them emails or texts expressing their outrage at the event.

It mounted a petition drive against the event and encouraged supporters to turn out for the show to protest if it was not cancelled. A Feb. 26 post on the group’s Facebook page said nearly 10,000 people had signed the petition protesting conditions at the show.

Unparalleled Suffering also said its protests had shut down a similar hog sacking event planned at the Rio Frio Fest.

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5 minutes ago, davidg said:

Was expecting something that involved tannerite based on thread title

 

Same here. To find out they are putting some shit eating pigs in a sack and letting them go disappointed me.

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26 minutes ago, Hate said:

Can someone post some cliff notes so I can decide whether or not to be outraged?

I skimmed it.  Peta wannabes mad because little kids are chasing pigs and putting them in a sack.   (Meanwhile there are rodeos all over the country and those pigs are probably going to eventually get the bolt gun )

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10 hours ago, davidg said:

Was expecting something that involved tannerite based on thread title

 

We apologise again for the fault in the thread title. Those responsible for sacking the pigs who have just been sacked have been sacked. Pigs trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVØRDENBRØTBØRDA Special Pig Effects OLAF PROT Pig Costumes SIGGI CHURCHILL Pig Choreographed by HORST PROT III Miss Taylor's Pigs by HENGST DOUGLAS-HOME Pig trained to mix concrete and sign complicated insurance forms by JURGEN WIGG Pigs/' noses wiped by BJØRN IRKESTØM-SLATER WALKER

There will be no explosion, pig out front should have told ya.

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22 minutes ago, Cajun said:

I'd be happy to organize a animal activist/tannerite event at a venue near you with some commitment for financial help with Hazmat cleanup.

Lemme know.

Here is the hazmat cleanup crew.  They work pretty cheap.

 

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Here ya go bunny huggers.  PM me for my address.  I'll have a hot cup of coffee waiting for you.  Don't worry, I'll just pour it on your graves...
 
Negged on youtube.

Absolutely horrible horrible video.

Stacked 9 pigs?

And blowed em up good?

And where the hell are the close ups of the stacked pigs? And close ups of the blowed up pigs?

Goddamnit. Give us video of the prep and aftermath or your video fucking blows.

At least they turned the phone sideways.
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Negged on youtube. Absolutely horrible horrible video. 

Stacked 9 pigs?

 

And blowed em up good?

 

And where the hell are the close ups of the stacked pigs? And close ups of the blowed up pigs?

 

Goddamnit. Give us video of the prep and aftermath or your video fucking blows.

 

At least they turned the phone sideways.

 

 

Ok this guy has some better vids.   

 

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'Meat The Victims' vegans accused of killing piglets by accident after storming farm to cuddle them

 

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Afarmer has accused vegans of crushing two piglets to death after causing a stampede during their efforts to cuddle the newborn pigs.

200 vegans from the group "Meat the Victims" stormed a farm in Lincolnshire in order to protest against pork.

However, in their efforts to raise awareness about the "cruelty" of pig farming, they were accused of causing distress to the animals and inadvertently causing the death of two.

 Farmer Sylvia Hook, from Sandilands Farm on Newark Road in Laughterton, said the vegans terrified her family and caused damage to the farm.

She told Lincolnshire Live:  “About 50 of them all piled into a farrowing house, immediately the sows are jumping up and down.

“It's caused the death of two young piglets through being squashed and two other piglets I've had to be taken away to get up and running again.”

 The farmer added in an interview with BBC Look North: "The sows were very stressed initially with all the noise and the commotion, jumping up and down, squashing piglets, causing general havoc.

"They were picking piglets up, cuddling them – there was a lot of screaming going on. Piglets don’t want to be cuddled. Then unfortunately, they were putting the piglets back in the wrong pens.

 

"Because it was such a long period of time we were not able to fulfil our caring duties to the animals. We could not get in to feed them as our barrow is the width of the passage."

Ms Hook added that the farm is a family-run business and is Red Tractor assured.

Meat the Victims denied that the activists caused the animals stress or that they were responsible for the death of the piglets.

One of the protesters, who calls himself 'Earthling Ed', commented: "You cannot love animals and kill them. You cannot love animals and pay someone else to kill them. You cannot love animals and commodify, butcher and mutilate their bodies. Farms are prisons for the innocent. They are death factories."

Lincolnshire Police said:  “We are in attendance at Sandilands Farm, Newark Road, Laughterton, where a protest is taking place.

“We have a positive obligation to facilitate lawful peaceful protest and officers will remain on the scene until the protest has concluded.”

Although there was a heavy police presence at the farm during the protest, no arrests were made.

 

I'm wondering how a protest is 'lawful' when it involves trespassing onto private property against the owner's will?

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