[kellyhound]

Turkey, a wild boar emerged from nearby woods and barreled down Turgut Özal Boulevard in Batman.

The boar can be seen striking a pedestrian on a zebra crossing with enough force to sweep his legs out and sends him crashing face-first onto the pavement.

After knocking into at least two more men, the boar disappeared back into the darkness. Three people were injured in separate encounters during the boar's trail of destruction.

The name of the city Batman comes from the Batman river. Before it became a city in 1957, it was just a small village called İluh.

The name also is a shortened version of the nearby Bati Raman mountains.

In 2008, the mayor of Batman, Hüseyin Kalkan, made international headlines by threatening to sue Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. following the massive success of The Dark Knight.

Kalkan argued that there is only one Batman in the world and that the American producers had used the city's name without permission. He claimed the city was owed royalties from the movie's nearly $1 billion box office earnings.

In a strange twist, the mayor also blamed the movie for a rise in unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate in the city, claiming the film's success had a negative psychological impact on residents.

He alleged that residents of the city were facing difficulties registering their businesses abroad because authorities thought the name was a joke or a copyright infringement of the superhero.

Kalkan claimed he had evidence that the city was founded before the character's debut in 1939.

However, while the river/region name is old, the town itself only officially became Batman in 1957 and that's 18 years after the first Batman comic.

The lawsuit never actually went anywhere. No formal court papers were ever filed, and legal experts noted that you cannot trademark the name of a town in a way that prevents it from being used for a fictional character.

Shortly after the announcement, the mayor himself was sentenced to 10 months in prison in 2008 for spreading terrorist propaganda which had nothing to do with the Batman case.

In a 2006 interview with the Los Angeles Times, he praised the jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and argued that members of the PKK should be allowed to participate in politics.

In the years surrounding the lawsuit, Kalkan faced multiple cases. In one instance, a one-year sentence for praising crime was converted into a fine of 9,000 YTL (€4,500 at the time).

By late 2008, he had accumulated over 3 years and 9 months in various prison sentences and thousands in fines across six different cases related to his public statements.

He was officially prohibited from active politics for five years.

In 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey had violated Kalkan’s freedom of expression regarding his 10-month sentence. The court ordered the Turkish government to pay him €3,500 in compensation.

[Mr.NoCredit]

That pig was bookin it.

[Mecrupulent]

I liked all the intel about the mayor Kalkan more than the boar video

I'd almost say it was... "Boaring"

[yah]

That was a big fucking boar.