| Author | Message | ||
| Martinc Registered user Username: Martinc Post Number: 104 Registered: 9-2006 |
This is a delightful little story, rich with symbol, and you won't find it in "Signs of the Times". It seems that a large wild boar, all 200 lbs of him, came charging into the sleepy town of south Loma Linda (the most Adventist section of this Adventist town), looking for trouble. Residents on the block of Cedar Way reported that he was charging people, hurling himself at gates and windows, and generally showing no respect for his vegetarian friends who wished him no harm. Residents called animal control, and when the officer saw the passionate porker trying to break a window, he was tranquilized. Several hours later at the animal shelter, the wild boar was sacrificed, er, euthanized. They stated that this was too dangerous an animal to return to the wild. Next time he might show up for Sabbath School. Also of note, the swine was caught just a few blocks from the new location of Loma Linda Farmers' Market, to be held that very night. It must be a sign. Fellow FAF'ers, give us the interpretation of this sign! | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 7801 Registered: 3-2004  |
I laughed our loud when I read this. That is so funny. Diana L | ||
| Freeatlast Registered user Username: Freeatlast Post Number: 622 Registered: 5-2002 |
It was a Masonic boar. Definitely a signal. Probation is about to close. Move out of the large cities. Surely the time of trouble is at hand. Please stop calling me shirley. | ||
| Martinc Registered user Username: Martinc Post Number: 105 Registered: 9-2006 |
It also occurred to me that the boar may not have been his normal self. What "possessed" him to behave this way? Has anyone else heard of animals around Loma Linda acting strangely, or conversely, any humans suddenly acting normal? | ||
| Grace_alone Registered user Username: Grace_alone Post Number: 1612 Registered: 6-2006  |
When I read the title I thought maybe you were talking about when my hubby was attending LLU La Sierra Campus. Talk about wild. As soon as he moved into Towers he started going to the movies. He went to several each week! He even drove to Vegas a few times for all-nighters. Wild Boar? I'm thinking he came from a neighboring Babylonian who was raising wild bacon...  Leigh Anne | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 5800 Registered: 9-2006  |
That was a wild story and not boaring at all, it was a sign for all Adventist, their bacon is cooked. However I do not want to be piggish about the whole thing. But the root of the matter seems to come from the snout. Saw a movie and went to Vegas Leigh Anne? Oh heavens, he is beyond incorrigible, what a wild man. River | ||
| Jdpascal Registered user Username: Jdpascal Post Number: 200 Registered: 10-2003 |
I was thinkin' that LLUMC will be short the heart valves that porker was sent to deliver......... | ||
| Martinc Registered user Username: Martinc Post Number: 106 Registered: 9-2006 |
A Masonic boar, Freeatlast? I know the Masons have a history in Adventism, but tell us of this symbol of the boar. Maybe Loma Linda can adopt it as their mascot. Sure, Towers dorm had a little fun now and then, but they were saints compared to Raley House across the street. Debauchery was only limited by our poverty. River, you can really dish out the pun-ishment. That's it, you win. I was thinking if those scared neighbors had called you instead, you'd had a bucket of slop and hog-called that old boar into submission. They just don't understand hog psychology. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 10758 Registered: 12-2003  |
This is just TOO funny! Thanks, Martin, for telling the story here! When I heard the news item this morning, I was totally amused...and puzzled, too. Where DID he come from? Indeed—it must be a sign! (Richard just told me that wild boars DO live in the surrounding hills, but they usually come out only at night...we could practically have a wild animal park in Loma Linda!) Ha! Colleen (Message edited by colleentinker on December 17, 2009) | ||
| Nowisee Registered user Username: Nowisee Post Number: 214 Registered: 5-2009 |
River, you beat me to the punch about the boaring story, so I just have to say it was a delightful story about the 'swine (who) flew' at gates & windows. And I'm pretty sure that Worthington used the sound this poor animal made when he hit the windows & gates as the name of their veggie-pork protein slices! | ||
| Nowisee Registered user Username: Nowisee Post Number: 215 Registered: 5-2009 |
Oh, my goodness, I didn't realize this was a current story--just checked out the news--I thought it was an interesting vintage story, until I saw Colleen's post (we were posting at almost the same time). It just goes to show you that LL is going 'hog wild'! | ||
| Gcfrankie Registered user Username: Gcfrankie Post Number: 662 Registered: 1-2007 |
Oh my! Get out the bleach bottle and purify the area before be coming contaminated, haha. Sorry, I could not resist. Gail | ||
| Martinc Registered user Username: Martinc Post Number: 109 Registered: 9-2006 |
That's funny, Gc. God surely is showing His sense of humor with His unclean, hairy, homicidal messenger. He likes to show us unflattering but true pictures of ourselves--lost, desperate, unclean, and marked for death. Lord, don't let them take me to their kind of shelter! | ||
| Bobalou Registered user Username: Bobalou Post Number: 66 Registered: 2-2005 |
Maybe he was running into those Adventist windows and gates because he really was trying to become a "Wham wog". (Message edited by bobalou on December 18, 2009) | ||
| Philharris Registered user Username: Philharris Post Number: 1927 Registered: 5-2007  |
I thought it was the little pigs that lived in straw houses who were the foolish ones when they needed brick homes to keep out the big bad wolf. Of course, if he was one of River’s razor back boar hogs, he could go anywhere he wanted. Sounds to me like the wolf was in a straw house. Or was he the coyote who couldn’t even catch the road runner. Anyway, I bet the animal control people are having a BBQ this weekend. P. S. This reminds me of when I lived in Angwin (PUC) and a cougar was roaming the neighborhood. I even spotted him myself back in the area known as the ‘Window Tree’, where they now have an airfield. Anyway, the state ranger came in and shot the thing and not one person complained. Fearless Phil | ||
| Loneviking Registered user Username: Loneviking Post Number: 693 Registered: 7-2000 |
I think I need to visit my inlaws and bring my bow. Colleen, up for a pig roast in the back yard? It's amazing what happens to the wild critter population when nobody is hunting them! | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 10768 Registered: 12-2003 |
Colleen | ||
| Surfy Registered user Username: Surfy Post Number: 610 Registered: 11-2007 |
Yeah, the pig probably thought it was safe being around adventists, on account of them being vegetarians and all. Just like we think it is safe being around adventists, on account of them being Christians and all. Surfy | ||
| Hec Registered user Username: Hec Post Number: 865 Registered: 3-2009 |
Surfy, that analogy is great! I bet River can come up with a story on that. Hec |
