Showing posts with label boar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boar. Show all posts

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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