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.Photo: Dan Marinescu 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.
Statistics showed some 280 boars, both adults and youngsters, where killed during the hunting party which lasted one day and a half.
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 sta
