Road hog: Pig brings traffic on carriageway to standstill so she can feed her piglets

 

Last updated at 19:31pm on 24th October 2007 Comments (1)

There was no time for social niceties, table manners or even a please and thank you.

 

When little pigs insist on stopping for lunch, there's nothing much a mother on the move can do.

 

This sow and her litter had been roaming the New Forest in Hampshire when the youngsters decided it was time to tuck in.

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The sow stopped in the centre of the busy country road, near Bramshaw in Hampshire's New Forest, while all nine of her offspring began to suckle

 

 

Rather than battle the might of a half dozen little squealers, she pulled up in the middle of the road and let them have lunch.

 

Motorists were forced to wait, with tailbacks stretching along the road.

 

Roaming pigs are a common sight this time of year as the pannage season gets under way, an ancient custom which allows pig farmers to turn their animals on to Crown land for up to 60 days of grazing.

 

"The sow was feeding her piglets in the middle of the road and there was no way of moving her," said Bernie Bedford, a local doctor who took the picture.

Dr Bedford, of Hythe, near Southampton, said: "I was driving along the B3079 Bramshaw to Landford road when I turned a bend and suddenly saw this amazing sight.

"Local radio even broadcast a warning that the pigs were a traffic hazard on that road.

 

"Cars had to carefully crawl around her but it wasn't easy."

OiNK OiNK!

oh my goodness...that reminds me of the way some people act :)

Ah the New Forest National Park, where animals have the rights over motorists, blanket 40 mph speed limit and they are red hot on speeders there.

Ah the New Forest National Park, where animals have the rights over motorists, blanket 40 mph speed limit and they are red hot on speeders there.

 

Who are? The pigs??:rolleyes:

Yep! Kind of strange

The pigs as well.

 

It wouldn't be so bad, but some of the roads in that area are falling to pieces, HCC has the money but due to the "National Park" status, for them to do any work it takes at least 6 months for the paperwork to go back and forward.

The pigs as well.

 

It wouldn't be so bad, but some of the roads in that area are falling to pieces, HCC has the money but due to the "National Park" status, for them to do any work it takes at least 6 months for the paperwork to go back and forward.

 

Sounds like somebody's being ham-fisted............... :rolleyes:

I'm not bitter about it

 

Damn South Hampshire people...

I'm not bitter about it

 

Damn South Hampshire people...

 

Funny how this pig incident occurred in South Hampshire, isn't it??:rolleyes:

Yes, it is :rolleyes: