Ornery wild boar ignores Hernando deputy's Taser blasts

Memo to law enforcement: It takes more than a Taser to stop a wild boar.

Hernando sheriff's Deputy Joseph Tibor made that discovery Tuesday morning on Sage Thrasher Road in the Royal Highlands subdivision, after responding to reports of an "extremely large pig" tearing up a resident's yard.

At 1136 Sage Thrasher, Tibor encountered some 450 pounds of ornery boar rooting up shrubbery and threatening a water fountain. When the animal flashed his tusks in the direction of onlookers, the officer tried to stop it with the weapon's advertised 50,000 volts. Nothing doing.

"This had no effect on the pig, " Tibor wrote in his incident report. The animal was eventually corralled into a neighbor's trailer.