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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 02:41 PM
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Boar killed on campus serves as culture lesson (also, lunch)
Seems the students at Waimea High School on Kaua'i have solved the age-old problem of how to serve a nutritious school lunch...

http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/30/news/story07.html

WAIMEA, Kauai » At 120 pounds and sporting 1 1/2-inch tusks and an arrow through its shoulder, the injured wild boar ran through the Waimea High School campus yesterday as it if were recess time.

But it was no laughing matter to school officials and students who were chased by the frenzied animal before a teacher reluctantly ended it by putting a metal stake through its head...

Putting the boar to good use fits right into the Hawaiian cultural curriculum he's currently teaching his students, De Costa said....

And it seems school officials now see it his way, scheduling a luau for today.


'Ono! Pass the poi...
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 02:42 PM
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1. Wild boar tastes so much better than domestic swine.
They'll kill you good and dead if given half a chance, though.
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