节日通常是裹着毯子的猪的时间,但在英国的一家高尔夫俱乐部,一些野猪引起了不小的轰动。
两只巨大的野猪最近闯入了约克郡莱特克利夫高尔夫俱乐部的球场,扰乱了比赛,甚至伤害了一些试图将它们赶走的高尔夫球手。
他们第一次出现是在周日,主管菲利普马歇尔记得,尽管他告诉 CNN Sport 俱乐部“不知道他们来自哪里”。
“我们的一名高尔夫球手在球场上看到了这些猪,并试图将它们赶走,但他的腿被割伤,不得不去 A&E 进行击球,”马歇尔说。 “然后他们就消失了,所以我们认为他们已经走了。
“星期二,他们又出现了,他们挖出了第 18 个果岭,第一个发球台,然后我们的头果岭的主管试图将其中一个推开,结果他撞到了他的腿。所以他不得不去打球。” ”破伤风刺戳但他很好。他实际上在今天(星期四)早上打了一杆进洞!所以对他没有任何不良影响。“
尽管马歇尔将伤势描述为轻微割伤,但作为预防措施,两人都去了急诊室,因为它们是由野生动物造成的。
'显然很危险'
由于高尔夫俱乐部的成员无法自己将猪圈起来,这是一个遏制伤害并等待外界帮助的情况。
马歇尔说,他打电话给皇家防止虐待动物协会(RSPCA)和当地警方。警察说来收集猪不是他们的权限,皇家防止虐待动物协会会在他们可以的时候来帮忙,但他们“非常紧张”。
“发生的事情是我在那里待了大部分时间直到黄昏,我们设法将他们带到了球场的远角,”马歇尔解释道。
“所以我们把他们带到了球场的角落,把他们留在那里。我们无法接近他们,我们关闭了球场,因为他们显然很危险。
“他们星期二晚上在高尔夫球俱乐部外的小路上结束了。他们被放在运输车里然后被带走了。我们不知道他们来自哪里,也不知道他们发生了什么事。”
此后,莱特克利夫重新向公众开放,并为注册打球的任何人提供额外奖励。
“任何在线预订并来玩的人,我们都提供免费的培根三明治,”马歇尔说。
Pigs go hog wild on golf course, injure two and force club closure
(CNN)The festive season is typically time for pigs in blankets, but at one British golf club, some oinkers have been creating quite a stir.
Two huge pigs recently made their way onto the course at Lightcliffe Golf Club in Yorkshire, disrupting play and even injuring some golfers who tried to shoo them away.
They first appeared on Sunday, remembers president Philip Marshall, although he tells CNN Sport the club "don't know where they came from."
"One of our golfers saw these pigs on the course and tried to shoo them off and he sustained a cut on his leg and had to go to A&E for a shot," Marshall said. "And they disappeared then, so we thought they'd gone.
"On Tuesday, they reappeared then, and they dug up the 18th green, the first tee and then our head green's director tried to shoo one of them off and it turned on him and it cut his leg. So he had to go and have a tetanus jab but he's fine. And he actually had a hole-in-one this (Thursday) morning! So no ill-effects to him at all then."
Although Marshall describes the injuries as minor cuts, both went to the emergency room as a precaution as they were injuries caused by a wild animal.
'Obviously dangerous'
Because members of the golf club were unable to corral the pigs themselves, it was a case of containing the damage and waiting for outside help.
Marshall says he called the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) and the local police. The police said coming to collect the pigs wasn't their jurisdiction and the RSPCA would come and help when they could but they "were very overstretched."
"What happened was I was there for most of the day until dusk, and we'd managed to lead them to the far corner of the course," Marshall explains.
"So we got them to the corner of the course and left them there. We couldn't approach them, we closed the course because they're obviously dangerous.
"They ended up on the Tuesday night on the side road outside the golf club. They were put in transporters and they were taken away. We don't know where they're from or what's happened to them."
Lightcliffe has since reopened to the public and is offering an added bonus to anyone who signs up to play.
"Anybody who books online and comes and plays, we're offering a free bacon sandwich," Marshall said.