Thursday 10 March 2011

"Terrified shoppers flee from crazed creature on rampage in shopping centre"

From The Daily Mail:

A crazed wild boar wreaked havoc when it went on the rampage in a shopping centre in France. The ten-stone 'hairy pig' with pointed tusks charged into a supermarket through a service entrance, smashing through product displays and sending shoppers fleeing in panic. The animal then burst through a checkout, along a shopping arcade and into a hairdressing salon in Nancy, Lorraine.

As customers ran to safety, security men managed to trap the boar inside and lock the door. The beast then 'smashed everything in sight' in the salon at the commercial centre of Nancy on Tuesday, eye-witnesses revealed.

The shopping centre's security chief Gregory Gobin said: "Once the boar realised it was cornered it went berserk. It tore sinks from the walls, ripped and trampled the furniture and sent hair products flying in all directions. The room was devastated and the entire damage caused by the animal will run into tens of thousands of euros."

The boar was locked inside the salon for an hour before a vet was called who shot it with a tranquilliser dart.

2 comments:

john b said...

Short list suggestion: "cities whose name, if listed next to their region, sounds like a chav and her daughter". Nancy, Lorraine is definitely one.

Span Ows said...

For bull in a china shop read boar in a shiner shop