PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Drivers on Aden Road have seen fallen branches or dead animals struck by cars.
But on Sunday, a large boar was reportedly standing in the middle of the two lane road obstructing traffic about two miles past Joplin Road, near the Prince William County Public Schools Headquarters at Independent Hill.
Chris Riley was headed to his farm in Remington when he saw the beast standing in the middle of the road. The animal had long hair, fur that was two inches long, and it appeared to have weighed at least 400 pounds.
“I’m a hunter, and I’ve lived in this area for about 40 years and I have never seen anything like that,” said Riley.
An oncoming car flashed their headlights at Riley warning him of the boar in the middle of the road. Once upon it, Riley stopped, honked his horn not once but twice, and then it finally ran off the roadway into the Quantico Marine Corps Base.
Riley has hunted Russian boar before and said they can be dangerous, as the more wild they are the longer and sharper their tusks can get. He’s even lost hunting dogs to vicious boars, he said.
It’s apparent other drivers saw the boar, too. At 12:19 p.m., Prince William County Animal Control officers were called to the area for a report of a boar. When they arrived, it ran off into the woods, said county police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
Another call came in at just before 5 p.m., but no pig was found. At 6:45 pm., police were called to the 14400 block of Aden Road where they found a dead pig. It was removed from the roadway, said Perok.
We don’t know if the pig found dead is the same boar described by Riley, who urged drivers to beware.
“Something that large, larger than a deer, it could’ve done some real damage to my car if I’d had hit it,” he said.
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