Invasion of the Wild Boars

They came out of nowhere. Wild boars stormed the elegant Bavarian town of Veitshöchheim on a peaceful Saturday morning and left mangled cars, smashed fences and a wrecked boutique in their wake. Police had to open fire to restore order.



An angry horde of wild boars invaded a German town at the weekend, knocking over cyclists, biting pedestrians, causing traffic accidents and wrecking a boutique, police said.

The trouble started shortly after 10 a.m. on Saturday morning when police responded to panicked calls from the residents of Veitshöchheim near the city of Würzburg in Bavaria. The boars had been fleeing from hunters and some had even swum across the river Main to escape.

Once they got into town they were frightened, furious and spoiling for a fight.