Some Malaysian residents are seeking fortune by touching and feeding wild boars
Sun, May 23, 2010
Sinchew Daily/Asia News Network
KUALA LUMPUR: Ampang residents are following the footsteps of Taiping folks, seeking fortune by touching the wild boars.
Three months ago, some twenty wild boars came down from the hills to look for food. They were fed by the residents of Taman Ampang Jaya.
These boars seem to know how to reciprocate the kind gestures of local residents, and one of the residents who touched the head of a wild boar has subsequently won a lottery prize of more than RM10,000 (S$4,293).
After the news has spread around, local residents are amazed and the area has since attracted hundreds of people who come to touch the wild boars for fortune.
Local residents told Guang Ming Daily that the actual location the wild boars appeared was the 9th road of Taman Tun Abdul Razak in Ampang Jaya near to the woods of Hulu Langat Range, where local residents are used to feed the monkeys in the evenings with some peanuts and bananas.
Three months ago, a herd of wild boars seemed to notice that they could get some food from local residents too if they follow the monkeys by looking for food at the same place.
Tame and unaggressiveAccording to local residents, the wild boars would divide themselves into two groups while looking for food.
The average weight of first batch of wild boars is about 80kg and the biggest female boar among could weigh over 100kg. There are 12 boars in the second batch, each of them weighing almost 70kg.
In general, wild boars are fierce by nature, not friendly towards humans and would attack when agitated.
However, this herd of wild boars is tame and would accept the food offered to them and allow the residents to touch their heads or bodies.
A couple of months ago, a resident happened to win the lottery on the same day after touching a wild boar.
The news spread around and has become a hot topic among the locals. Many people have since come to feed the wild boars with the hope of getting some unexpected fortune as well.
However, some of them are disappointed as they have not spotted even a boar after waiting for an entire night.
These wild boars seem to be selective in allowing residents to touch their heads. People with poor luck are unable to get near to the boars as they would resist aggressively.
Violating boar assaultedPrior to this, wild boars did not seem to get along so well with local residents.
It was said that the leg of a little wild boar was broken by local residents for fear that it would attack humans.
Two months later, the aggressive wild boars began to put down their defence and began to learn to get along with local residents.
Local residents said the wild boars would appear three to four days a week between 7.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
A weird phenomenon is that they would arrive in two batches, around twenty in each batch.
Naming the boarsThey have given names to some of the wild boars such as "Easy Money" and "Bobo".
Some unscrupulous profiteers have suggested to hunt down on the boars for a fee but they have been rejected by majority of residents who think it is cruel.
Crowd pullerThese wild boars have become famous and have lured visitors from as far as Kuala Selangor to come and see them.
While some have come with a purpose, many say they bring along their families just to take a look of wild boars as they have not seen one previously.
Source: http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%...21-217658.html
How It Began (source frm another blogger http://mytomyam.blogspot.com/2009/05/lucky-wild-boars-pigs-at-indian-temple.html :
According to a local resident, the phenomenon started a few years ago when a local Chinese electrician carried out some electrical work at the isolated temple. He stroked the wild boars and won numerous four-digit number prizes. With the prize money he had won and saved, he donated RM5,000 to the temple.
At that time there was hardly any visitor except for those who came to pray at the temple. On hearing this, many local Taiping residents who came to touch the wild boar for good luck also reported to have strike it big. Soon words spread like wild fire with visitors from as far as Thailand and Singapore thronging the temple daily in hundreds and could swell into thousands on weekends and public holidays.
Personally, I've been there once.
When we arrived near the temple, one Indian boy approached us on a motorbike asking us "Ah Moi, Lu mau pigi Tokong Babi kah?" (Girl, you wanna go to the Wild Boar Temple?). Then when we said yes, he gave us a plastic bag with 3 packets of nasi lemak in it. I told him I didnt want to purchase nasi lemak but he insisted that I need to buy that nasi lemak to feed the wild boars. It costed us RM2 for the 3 packet of nasi lemak(the money supposedly to be donated to the Indian Temple). Out of curiosity I opened up the nasi lemak & was taken in by the smell and look of the "wild Boars' nasi lemak".
That Indian chap lead us to the temple in his bike. Upon arriving, this is what we saw and what we did:
1) The wildboars
2) My daughters were particularly afraid compared to my twins:
3) The Nasi Lemak being sold at the temple
4) That's me & my sis trying to lay our hands on those beasts for good luck.
Sceptical at first but actually strike numbers (bought frm Magnum) 3 days in a row after we came back. Not much winnings though coz I'm not a Big Gambler.
However , recently my auntie who stays in Taiping told us that the place mentioned above has been closed down by goverment authorities.
Is it true? Would appreciate some feed backs.
