Woman Killed By Feral Hogs Outside Texas Home
BY Herschel Smith
5 years ago
A woman was attacked and killed by a group of feral hogs Sunday morning outside the Southeast Texas home where she worked as a caretaker, authorities said.
Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said in a press conference Monday that Christine Rollins, 59, arrived around 6 to 6:30 a.m. when she was attacked at the Anahuac home, located 40 miles east of Houston.
The 84-year-old woman who has been under her care for almost two years went outside and found Rollins in the front yard between her car and the front door, Hawthorne told reporters.
He said Rollins had a severe head wound and several other injuries consistent with different sized bites indicating multiple animals were involved.
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“In my 35 years, it was one of the worst things I had ever seen,” Hawthorne said about the scene.
The coroner in neighboring Jefferson County ruled Monday that Rollins bled to death after an attack by feral hogs.
Hawthorne told reporters that feral hogs have been a problem in the county and throughout the state of Texas, however, incidents like this are extremely rare.
So rare that you are willing to risk you life to being eaten by feral hogs? Why not carry a gun with you wherever you go? It’s a pain, I know. But it all comes down to mitigating high risk outcomes.
If an event is high probability and low consequence, it is at least moderate risk, and may be high risk because of the high probability. Risk = probability X consequences. If an event is low probability but high consequence (as loss of life would certainly be), it is certainly of moderate risk, at may be high risk because of the high consequences.
That’s risk analysis 101.
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On November 27, 2019 at 3:40 pm, ROFuher said:
Two Captains agree: .45 fat boys.
My father was checking calves a few years back and had a feral stud horse try to run him down. His 3 decade habit of keeping a Glazer safety slug in the pipe of his. 45 could have proven bad, but it put enough of a hitch in that horse’s giddy-up to let him retrieve the rifle from the truck.
On November 27, 2019 at 4:03 pm, ROFuher said:
To follow up my comment above, and ammo selection considerations in the next article.
While in rural areas I began alternating hardball and hollow points in the. 45 pistol.
I carry one mag of hollow point and another of hardball for contingencies.
I believe this to be an acceptable compromise, perhaps not perfect, but enough to divert anything from hooligans mistaking folks in the boonies as easy targets, to large livestock or the occasional opportistic mountain lion that moves through our property.
On February 7, 2024 at 1:05 am, Nolan Parker said:
I step out the back door at night with a 9mm. Look both ways. We don’t have a lot of hogs,but sometimes they come up. I know that isn’t a Stopper round for any of them that are grown, but it should be enough for me to get to the rifle.