Saturday, December 22, 2007

Boared French Shoppers

Half the shoppers probably wanted to cook it.

clipped from news.yahoo.com


POITIERS, France (AFP) -
It was no bull in a china shop, but a wild boar rampaged through a clothes shop in western France on Saturday before being felled by bullets, police said.

A young wild boar stands in the grass with a herd of heifers in May 2007 in a field at Lohuec, France. It was no bull in a china shop, but a wild boar rampaged through a clothes shop in western France on Saturday before being felled by bullets, police said.(AFP/File/Fred Tanneau)


Christmas shoppers and employees were evacuated from the store and the 90-kilo (198-pound) boar began charging at police, before falling in a hail of bullets early in the afternoon.


Just how the animal entered the shop, located in a commercial area near the city of Poitiers, remains a mystery. But three boars were spotted during the day in the region bordering the countryside, a police statement said.


The other two apparently returned to their usual habitat.

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