Chinese Police With Sticks & Guns vs. Rampaging Wild Boar

A  "wild boar" entered Zhongji Zhigong Hospital; in Taiyuan city of Shanxi province. The public security bureau mobilized police officers to capture it.

A "wild boar" entered Zhongji Zhigong Hospital; in Taiyuan city of Shanxi province. The public security bureau mobilized police officers to capture it.

From NetEase:

Taiyuan police capture wild boar, shoots 13 times to kill it

January 19th around 14:00, a “wild boar” ran into Zhongji Zhigong Hospital in Taiyuan city of Shanxi province. After after 3 hours of pursuit, the public security bureau [police] opened fired 13 times and shot it dead.

A police officer with a wooden stick/pole confronts the wild boar. Around 2pm, a "wild boar" ran into Zhongji Zhigong Hospital in Taiyuan city of Shanxi province through a sewer drainage pipe, hitting and injuring an elderly person riding a bicycle in the process.

A police officer with a wooden stick/pole confronts the wild boar. Around 2pm, a "wild boar" ran into Zhongji Zhigong Hospital in Taiyuan city of Shanxi province through a sewer drainage pipe, hitting and injuring an elderly person riding a bicycle in the process.

After breaking several wooden poles and still not able to subdue the wild boar, the police took out a handgun and attempted to shoot the wild boar. Due to its completely wild nature, it rampaged throughout the hospital and chased pedestrians. Given the extreme danger to the many hospital patients at the time and through consultation with the forestry department, the public security bureau adopted decisive action and prepared to shoot it dead.

After breaking several wooden poles and still not able to subdue the wild boar, the police took out a handgun and attempted to shoot the wild boar. Due to its completely wild nature, it rampaged throughout the hospital and chased pedestrians. Given the extreme danger to the many hospital patients at the time and through consultation with the forestry department, the public security bureau adopted decisive action and prepared to shoot it dead.

A police officer continues to hit the shot wild boar, several broken sticks lie nearby. After nearly one hour of pursuit, the public security bureau shot it dead after opening fire 13 times. According to preliminary guesses by forestry personnel and police, this wild boar very likely came from Taiyuan city's Xishan area by following the Yumen river into the Zhongji dormitory area.

A police officer continues to hit the shot wild boar, several broken sticks lie nearby. After nearly one hour of pursuit, the public security bureau shot it dead after opening fire 13 times. According to preliminary guesses by forestry personnel and police, this wild boar very likely came from Taiyuan city's Xishan area by following the Yumen river into the Zhongji dormitory area.

A crowd and reporters at the scene look on. It is believed that this pig could be a wild boar and domesticated pig hybrid.

A crowd and reporters at the scene look on. It is believed that this pig could be a wild boar and domesticated pig hybrid.

The police attempt to tie up the wild boar but the shot wild boar grabs the rope with its teeth. In recent years, improvements in its ecological environment and appropriate protective measures have resulted in more and more wild boars, with the wild boars entering cities and causing trouble becoming a common occurrence.

The police attempt to tie up the wild boar but the shot wild boar grabs the rope with its teeth. In recent years, improvements in its ecological environment and appropriate protective measures have resulted in more and more wild boars, with the wild boars entering cities and causing trouble becoming a common occurrence.

The wild boar stick in the drainage ditch, a police officer shoots from behind a fence.

The wild boar stick in the drainage ditch, a police officer shoots from behind a fence.

After several hours of containment efforts and a total of 13 shots fired, the police finally shoot the wild boar dead.

After several hours of containment efforts and a total of 13 shots fired, the police finally shoot the wild boar dead.

People transport the dead wild boar away.

People transport the dead wild boar away.

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Comments from NetEase:

网易四川省成都市网友:

The police’s marksmanship is so good!

网易广东省东莞市网友:

After decades of being a JC, finally a chance to shoot his gun, wildly fires 13 shots, wahahahaha.
The pig head goes to the bureau chief, the pig legs to the provincial government department, split the rest with everyone else, and auction off the pig tail.

网易山西省太原市网友:

Looking at the third photo, that JC‘s facial expression, so wound up, I wonder what’s going through his mind?

网易广东省东莞市网友:

A bunch of mental retards! There are many ways to catch a wild boar like this, and instead they kill it!

网易天津市网友:

Let me explain to you guys:
The wild boar was running wildly, the police officer aimed and shot 12 times without hitting it. Then the wild boar stopped running, walked up to the police officer and pleaded: “Brother, just make it quick, okay? You’re scaring me. Even if I don’t get shot to death, I’ll be scared to death.” [scared by his ineptitude with the gun]
Finally, with the 13th shot, with the wild boar’s request and cooperation, the poor piggy went to heaven…

网易山东省网友:

Humanity is truly great, much stronger than wild boars, able to create guns. The police is even more impressive, able to open fire and kill life! A wild boar stuck in a ditch, and you still need to shoot it? Shooting and killing a wild boar stuck in a concrete ditch, you’re so impressive, so capable, and it was with 13 shots too!

网易青海省西宁市网友:

Watch Man vs. Wild (this is the Discovery show, not a movie). In it, Bear [Grylls] uses just a dagger to kill a wild boar. The main thing is that JC these days are useless. They’re okay with beating people and demolishing houses. But useless when it comes to doing proper work.

网易广东省东莞市网友:

The JC department should have a net, right? Why not just use a net to catch it and then let it go? The wild boar is a self-reliant animal, is it necessary to be so definitive? Just one shot is enough, but 13? Looks like that pig wasn’t [immediately] killed but died a slow painful death.

网易内蒙古呼伦贝尔市手机网友:

I grew up in Daxing’anling and the large wild boars were hundreds of kilograms and especially savage. In the past, I’ve gone hunting before (before hunting was prohibited), taking 3 months off from work, going to the mountains in winter stay 3 months at a time, and every kind of danger I’ve encountered before. That the police officer was able to stand before the wild boar for the safety of the ordinary common people makes him a true man and I salute him…

网易山东省青岛市网友:

Showdown between a wild pig and a national pig.

网易上海市嘉定区网友:

13 shots to kill a pig. Idiot.

Two additional photos from Xinmin & China Daily:

A Chinese police officer fights a wild boar with a stick.

A Chinese police officer ties up a wild pig taht has been shot.

Two more photos from wohuia.com:

A wild pig runs through a city in China.

Police and bystanders around the dead wild boar.

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  1. Sofa

    Yes!!!! I CLAIM SOFA!

  2. What happened to my sofa comment?

    Anyway, 13 bullets to take down a wild boar? …and it wasn’t even dead after 13 bullets?

    • I don’t know how many bullets it takes to kill one of those things. I bet more than one… not thirteen though.

      They should have just used a net. I mean, if they were willing to beat it with sticks, they could have just thrown a net on it.

    • Not one was a head shot? Office next to the gate should had blown the pig’s head off being that close.

      Guess they gonna have more lead in tonight’s dinner.

    • Thirteen bullets from a handgun – not a high power hunting rifle. And they probably missed most of the shots.

      Besides the low penetration power of the bullets, boars are built for harsh competition – those tusks are used vigorously in the fight to get his own little harem and defend it. Under the hide is a layer of fat – I personally have seen a boar that had a bullet wound on the left side- about the level of the heart, and an exit wound high on the right.

      When we examined it, we found the bullet track followed the fat layer up and over the backbone, and exited without ever penetrating the muscles over the ribcage.

    • Just because they fired 13 shots, it didn’t mean all of them hit the target. If you read it carefully “opened fired 13 times and shot it dead.” It did not say he hit it 13 times.

      By the look of that antique gun, I’d be surprise if it even shot strait.

      Why didn’t they just bust out those shot guns all those bank armor truck drivers use? Would of been more effective.

      And I’m sure they’d cook that thing and celebrate.

  3. Whats for dinner?

  4. Third picture is pretty awesome. You can tell he had a lot of pent up aggression.

  5. Get down and kneel for an hour, you killed my wild boar!

    In all seriousness though, wild boar is some really good eating – sausages in Taiyuan tonight!

  6. those cops looked so……ugly!
    once two young firemen came to buy sth in my place, i even rolled my eyes off, tall and slim and handsome…and in uniform.
    yummy!

  7. I wonder if the assassination of this porcine protester will increase the ease with which ham products can be found in my province.

    As far as the marksmanship ability of the police officer, does anyone here have an idea of the level and frequency of the firearms training that these officers receive?

    • In the city where I live, twice a year, according to several friendly cops I know.

      And 13 shots isn’t so outlandish. Assuming an average competency with a pistol (which is the type of firearm I see pictured), and the boar being a moving target, probably at least a couple of those shots missed. It is most likely that the pistol is chambered in 9mm parabellum, which isn’t a particularly powerful cartridge, it probably took a a decent number of rounds to stop the beast. A shot to the central nervous system would have put it down instantly, but that’s a hard shot to make. A shot to the vital organs won’t stop most large animals immediately. Most people of decent build can take a couple rounds of pistol fire to the vitals before they fall. Probably a couple shots were fired for surety.

      Then again, the photo of the cop behind the fence shooting the immobilized boar looks like he could have squeezed off an easy headshot…

  8. I think the bravest person was the guy who shot the seventh photo. The fearful cop is aiming his gun right at the photographer.

  9. Christ. I’ve downed bigger animals with a dog and a knife.

  10. If the boar was wearing pants, then the police would have fled.

  11. Hahaha, always somebody looking. The guy emptying his gun on the boar with a Rambo face the other one JUST next to the gun staring at it. LOL!! Classic.

    • Sadly that’s usually the case with unionized city employees. One guy working while the rest of the crew standing around drinking coffee and smoking.

  12. Boar’s dad wasn’t Li Gang.

  13. Bad waste of some good meat

  14. Quote of the Article

    “However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.”
    -from Lord of the Flies

    and my beloved Song of the Article,

    Wild Boar
    -Zion Train

    五毛党

  15. That Boar really went out in style.

    But 13 shots! That must have been a .22 cal for that much ammunition to be discharged upon the animal.

    Also we need to be open minded to the possibility the boar consumed large amounts of cocaine right before flipping out in an urban environment.

  16. Poor Pumba. Why they shot him? =(

  17. ZhuBaJie will not be pleased with the killing of its sibling. The Police should have talked nicely with the boar as we have to understand that the boar is equally distressed that he get lost in man land.

  18. To be fair to the Chinese police, wild boars are tough b*stards, especially when fully grown and angry.

    13 shots might be a bit less than epic, tho.

  19. This has happened in Germany as well. I wonder if that boar is safe to eat. In Hong Kong wilderness, the boars are actually afraid and run away from hikers because of the history of Chinese there hunting them for food so I think animals need to have the fear put into them otherwise they will grow to an enormous size and this will happen. Think of the Murlocs in World of Warcraft who start out so little but get bigger and bigger deeper into Orc territory. They need to be prevented from expanding. Also, cities should be fortified against animal attacks and zombies.

    • Germany is full of these things.

      Last time I drived around in Mecklenburg, three boars crossed my way and I nearly drove in them.

      All weighting around 100kg, my car wouldnt have liked a close encounter.

      The worst thing is; even though the goverment opened a general hunting season on these boars, there are far too few hunters to actually take care for these things nowadays.
      And ordinary people arent allowed to hunt or have guns at all…

      But still, boar meat is delicious and very very cheap right now in germany. Gotta eat my Wildschwein Kotelett with Sauerkraut and Jägersoße tomorrow…

  20. You know, in Age of Empires II, if you play Chinese you can kill a wild boar and get tons of food right off the bat.

  21. The only error in this article was the assumption that the boar is wild. . The assumption that China has any wildlife left.

  22. 猪鞭 = the boar’s penis

  23. “Showdown between a wild pig and a national pig.”

    Doesn’t get any better than this.

  24. this will make a fine banquet

  25. Chinese corrida! :-)

  26. yeah now that he is shot and cannot hurt me I am going to beat the crap out of him with a stick.

    very very brave.

  27. Why did he had to beat the pig when it was lying down? can’t he just severe it’s spine with one more shot to paralyze it?

  28. I can understand policemen having only pistols in a built up area, but they should have access to a rifle if required. Wild boar have recently been reintroduced to the British countryside after a 400 year absence. There is a reason for that absence. A wild boar is extremely powerful and if one wanted to act aggressively near me, then I would want the heaviest weapon I could get.

  29. The Chinese police is so clever…

  30. The boar went out in a blaze of glory.

  31. true, especially in china!
    stupid people everywhere, no matter young or old.

  32. Stupid fucking liberal PETA cunt detected.

    I eat dog. And I like it.

    Deal with it.

  33. Its a Tokarev TT (Type 54 in Chinese designation) handgun.
    They are chambered in 7.62x25mm, which has a good penetration, accuracy and range, but isnt that great in stopping-power.

    And hunting wild boars, you’ll need all stopping-power you can get.

  34. My friend’s uncle (supposedly a former black society underboss, and certainly a general all-around hardass) goes hunting for boar in the mountains on the outskirts of the city using a pack of vicious dogs and a significant knife. It’s really not unheard of.

    But I’m with you. If I were ever in boar territory, I’d prefer a shotgun and a flamethrower for instant 烧烤.

  35. Agreed. A wild boar is a very different proposition to a domestic pig. When I was young, hunters went after wild boars with nothing more than a spear and dog. And yes, these hunters were frequently injured and occasionally killed by these boars. Their tusks could do terrible damage to a human target. I doubt if anyone complaining about the poor marksmanship of the police could do better themselves, facing a charging boar with a pounding heart and a small hand gun.

  36. I eat dog too, bro. Fucking delicious.

  37. After you die you will be reincarnated into a dog in Pyongyang. I hope you enjoy your new life!

  38. It’s likely that the local PD are not that well equipped. He also doesn’t appear to be well trained. If his local detachment actually do have a rifle or shotgun, his buddies were probably too lazy to show up.

  39. tom tuttle from tacoma

    they should have just an it over with a construction vehicle.

  40. Yeah, I guess you’re right. The brain is a pretty small target in such an animal anyway.

  41. terrible terrible damage

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