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Wild pigs find Berlin anything but boaring
A German hunter stabbed a wild boar to death in a stairwell after the beast rammed through the bolted front door of a block of flats and stormed up to the sixth floor, a Berlin newspaper reported on Tuesday.
| He killed the Birthday Boar Hog? |
The beast from the local forest sped past a group of children playing outside and into the building in a Berlin suburb, probably in search of food. Petrified neighbours peered through their spy holes fearing their doors would not hold - and called 36-year-old hunter Conrad Meyer. "I grabbed him around the neck and then stabbed him square in the heart with my hunting knife," Meyer told the BZ daily newspaper, which showed him in traditional green hunter's hat and camouflage kit dragging the carcass away.
| "A wild boar, rampaging in your apartment building? I'll be right over, as soon as I change..." |
Wild boars often cause havoc in Berlin. Last April one jumped into bed with an elderly couple and in January a man was treated in hospital after a boar crashed into his living room.
| When I was stationed in Berlin, one of my people used to ride her bike to work through the Grunewald. One night she was chased halfway up the hill by a boar hog who didn't like her bike. She was not happy, for the rest of the night. |
Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-03-02 |
