{"id":145646,"date":"2025-09-10T03:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145646\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:47:06","slug":"florida-authorities-wrangle-wild-boar-who-broke-into-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145646\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida authorities wrangle wild boar who broke into home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/03\/us-news\/horrified-kids-shout-chuck-e-no-as-cops-cuff-mascot-for-credit-card-fraud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida deputy never<\/a> knows when he or she might need a lasso.<\/p>\n<p>An unwelcome visitor came crashing through a Southwest Florida glass door on Friday, prompting a call for a \u201cboarglary in progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies said they responded to a call in the Lehigh Acres community when a boar, or wild pig, slammed through the door.<\/p>\n<p>Video posted by the sheriff\u2019s office shows the wild encounter with a somewhat mild ending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, bring me that rope!\u201d one deputy said, after remarking \u201cgeeeooosh,\u201d when he saw the 300-pound wild pig in the living room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou better stop it,\u201d the deputy tells the big, mean animal.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies said they were able to remove the boar and send him back into the woods.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, wild hogs are found in all 67 Florida counties.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies were able to send the boar back to the woods. Lee County Sheriff\u0092s Office<\/p>\n<p>Wild hogs can be found in all 67 of Florida\u2019s counties. Lee County Sheriff\u0092s Office<\/p>\n<p>The boar came crashing into a Florida home. Lee County Sheriff\u0092s Office<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, they are not native to the Sunshine State. <\/p>\n<p>Wildlife experts say the wild pigs may have been introduced as early as 1589 by Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida deputy never knows when he or she might need a lasso. An unwelcome visitor came crashing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2808,90275,46903,79,194,201],"class_list":["post-145646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-florida","tag-intruders","tag-pigs","tag-science","tag-us-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}