Dude is still wearing a mask. OUTSIDE.

I am with Michael W. on this in wondering what happened between the snowboarder and boar previously. I am not even suggesting the snowboarder did anything intentionally wrong, only that something happened and the boar thinks something needs to be done about it.

The possibility is there for this to be a truly unprovoked attack, but in the grand scheme of things, usually attacks correspond with humans trying to do something to the hogs, or getting too close and being a threat to the hog.

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Not necessarily. In the Animal World there are individuals that are just Bat $hit CRAZY......just like humans. We like to think that a human did 'something' (no matter how obscure) to provoke the animal or somehow cause it to think it must react...and that if we only look deeper we will see the animal had a 'reason'. I reject that.

I concede that in most cases....something like this attack IS the result of some interaction (even if not immediately understood). I can even cut some animals a little 'slack'....recognizing they are often moved by baser instincts. But that pig came from WAY behind the person(s) it attacked, then seemed to want a little piece of everyone. A person would need to be mighty creative to understand or justify a reason for that. Hunt that nut case down and kill it.

This was not uncommon in Japan for decades, and some other parts of Asia. It is a common courtesy or respect to other people to wear a mask if you have a cold, flu, etc.

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Not necessarily. In the Animal World there are individuals that are just Bat $hit CRAZY......just like humans. We like to think that a human did 'something' (no matter how obscure) to provoke the animal or somehow cause it to think it must react...and that if we only look deeper we will see the animal had a 'reason'. I reject that.

I concede that in most cases....something like this attack IS the result of some interaction (even if not immediately understood). I can even cut some animals a little 'slack'....recognizing they are often moved by baser instincts. But that pig came from WAY behind the person(s) it attacked, then seemed to want a little piece of everyone. A person would need to be mighty creative to understand or justify a reason for that. Hunt that nut case down and kill it.

This is why I even shoot the nice ones, you just never know