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Romanian businessman Ion Tiriac organized a boarsâ hunting party on the 600 hectares of forest land he took on lease at Balc, some 80 kilometers away from Oradea city, in north-eastern Romania.
It lasted all through the weekend and gathered 44 foreign and Romanian guests, among whom Wolfgang Porsche, heir to the automobile empire; Klaus Mangold, director for Daimler Chrysler; Prince Max Emanuel von Thurn und Taxis; Franz Rauch, the head of the biggest juice making company in Europe; Prince Dimitrie Sturdza; and former Romanian PM Petre Roman. The airport in Oradea received Friday 10 planes more on its runway, than it would have had in a regular working day.
Perfect organization took over from the tarmac on; however, organizers could not plan for a perfect weather next day, when pouring rain turned the forests into marshes.
Sixty people were hired to chase the boars towards the two meter-high towers, where the hunters waited on above the ground platforms to shoot the boars running their way. Early Saturday the would-be hunters were informed once again on the rules to be obeyed; then they were whisked off to the hunting grounds in all-terrain vehicles. Once the hunting party ended, Porsche showed up all smiles for lunch, drinking in one gulp the hot plum-brandy served along the starters. When asked how his hunting experience in Romania was, Porsche searched for the English words then said: "Itâs great! Itâs fantastic!"
He adds that hunting parties in Germany do not stand on a pair with those in Romania; however, though he praised Dacia Logan as "a good, cheap car", Porsche said he had never had plans to buy the car-maker in Pitesti city, because the Porsche acquisitions plan was full, after buying Audi, Volkswagen, and Skoda.
"There was no more room for buying Dacia too," he said.
"Forests in Germany do not have such a large number of wild animals anymore," said Tonnies. "You should regulate very carefully the hunting rights, to not find yourselves in our place," added he. Sturdza cannot stop himself from praising Tiriacâs idea to organize the hunting party.
"It was marvelous; the best hunting parties are organized here. The boar has nine out of ten chances to run away with his life here, while in other parts of the world his chances to live are one to ten," said Sturdza. Some 600 boars were specially raised during the past year for the hunting party Tiriac organized this year as he does every winter. The meat of the animals killed was to be donated to homes of abandoned children in Brasov city, central Romania.
Translated by ANCA PADURARU
