Tourists love picturesque places — if a photo can do well on social media, you know that tourists are going to dig that attraction. However, at the New Forest National Park in southern England, tourists seem to love the pigs that roam the park, almost 600 of them. They seem to be so obsessed that they have befriended them and are constantly taking pictures with them.
Some of them took it to an extreme and took selfies with the phone near their snouts, while other park workers have also noticed the tourists leaping out of their cars and following the piglets down a busy road. While a few other tourists have taken a more respectful and gentle approach. The visitors have now been labelled the “piggy tourists”, a social crime that has annoyed people at the park as well as those in charge of animal welfare.
The reason there are so many pigs in the park is becuse of a yearly ritual called “pannage”, where the swine are released to eat up all the acorns and nuts that could otherwise be toxic to the park’s cattle and ponies.
This year’s pannage season began in September and is expected to go until January 2026 with a heavier-than-usual acorn crop, which means that there’s likely to be a larger horde of piggy tourists this time around. The piggies will be contributing to the park by doing their part, but why they have become celebrities still remains a mystery.
An Australian man stoops to barking to silence his annoying neighbours
Neighbours can get annoying — especially with their loud chatter. Some reach for the earplugs. the bolder ones try yelling back and asking them to shut up. Australian Jack Cooper came up with a plan to record himself barking, and posted it on Instagram, saying that when his neighbours get too annoying, he pretends that he’s a dog getting irritated by the noise, so they shut up.
He could not have devised a better plan to keep his neighbours quiet. PIC/ISTOCK
Guess what? This genius idea really seems to work for him. In the video, he acted like a dog, and barked very convincingly, after which he yelled “Sashimi, shut up”, showing that he was yelling at his dog to be quiet. To sound believable, he also screamed “The neighbours are going to hear you!” The neighbours definitely heard all of it, and it worked to silence them just fine.
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