[NYPOST] A Texas man in a wheelchair said he fought off a feral hog with an airsoft gun after it charged at him and appeared to be ''fixing to mow'' him down.
Longtime Houston resident Carl White told KHOU 11 that dog, Moose, started barking to alert him to one of the wild animals, which have been terrorizing the area, even killing pets.
''I was sitting over in this spot and he was coming full speed, looking right at me and fixing to mow me down,'' White told KHOU 11 about the attack earlier this month.
White, who only had an airsoft gun to defend himself, aimed an LED light on the top of the gun at the hog.
''But when I hit that light, it startled him and he turned a 180 right there, so close that I could smell him,'' White said to the outlet.
When the hog turned around again, he fired several pellets at it with the replica weapon— saving him from the animal, which typically has two sharp tusks.
White said he and his neighbors are sick of the feral hogs in the neighborhood and have reported several sightings to authorities for all the damage they've caused to their property.
The gnarly creatures also pose several other risks to the neighborhood, such as destroying crops, uprooting landscapes, and spreading diseases, WIRED reported.
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[Regnum] Asteroid 2024 PT5, nicknamed the second Moon because it follows Earth for several months, will soon begin to move away from the planet, and then come closer in 2055. This was reported on November 25 by the British scientific news site Phys.
The space object is located at a distance of about 3.5 million km from Earth. Until January, it will continue to approach and will be 1.8 million km away. After that, under the influence of the Sun's gravity, it will begin to move deeper into the Solar System.
The "Second Moon" will approach Earth again in 2055, but by then the object's speed will be much higher, and the asteroid will not be nearby for long. It will make a partial revolution around the planet.
As reported by IA Regnum, asteroid 2024 PT5 was spotted in Earth's orbit in August. Its diameter is 10-11 m. The object is too small for people to see it with the naked eye from Earth.
Scientific Director of the Moscow Planetarium Faina Rubleva emphasized that the asteroid will never be able to become a permanent satellite of our planet. At the same time, the object is currently orbiting the Earth.
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From article: "The space object is located at a distance of about 3.5 million km from Earth. Until January, it will continue to approach and will be 1.8 million km away."
FWIW, the average distance from the earth to the moon is about 380 million km.
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Asteroid 2024 PT5 will be coming in to pick up data from the UFO swarms.
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[NYPOST] A Texas man in a wheelchair said he fought off a feral hog with an airsoft gun after it charged at him and appeared to be ''fixing to mow'' him down.
