Wednesday, July 14

Animal Intruders

   1. "Wild boar spotted in supermarket"
      < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/3375611.stm >
   "A wild boar is on the loose in a Gloucestershire town after being spotted
    wandering into a supermarket"

   2. "Goat in bank"
      < http://www.kark.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=911 >
   "[H]e broke in, charging the glass doors at the Bank of America on Broadway"

   3. "Deer breaks into Conn. beauty salon"
      < http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040625/D83E8TIO1.html >
   "An intruder at a local business turned out to be as destructive as a bull
    in a china shop because it was a deer in a beauty salon"

   4. "Bear takes over police station"
      < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_781809.html >
   "Police in Belarus locked themselves into a patrol car for hours after a
    1,000lb bear took over their police station"

   5. "Bear wanders through Japanese hospital - twice"
      < http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/16/1065917545826.html >
   "A hungry 100-kilogram wild bear wandered into a hospital in northern Japan,
    terrifying a patient, and then escaped through a glass emergency exit in
    panic, only to return later"

   6. "Bear and cub breach security at Russian nuclear site"
      < http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200308/s929266.htm >
   "A female bear and her cub have caused a major security breach after they
    walked into a top-secret nuclear research site in southern Russia"

   7. "Rooster 'keeps coming back to chicken restaurant'"
      < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1008482.html >
   "A rooster in America has found a new home that he keeps returning to - the
    foyer of a takeaway chicken restaurant"

   8. "Stowaway cat attacks pilot"
      < http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,8928125,00.html >
   "A Bangladeshi pilot needed first aid after a stowaway cat got into the
    cockpit of his aircraft and attacked him"

   9. "Hunter called as piggish guest found to be terrible boar"
      < http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1057490.htm >
   "[T]he beast rammed through the bolted front door of an apartment bloc and
    stormed up to the sixth floor"

   10. "Rats, the bats had taken over the flat"
      < http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/28/1062050594466.html >
   "A Czech woman is looking for a new home after hundreds of bats moved into
    her flat while she went on holiday"

   11. "Has anyone seen Alfred Hitchcock lately?"
      < http://www.bmoviecentral.com/bmoviecentral/blog/index.php?p=450 >
   "The winged pests [pigeons] are not just nesting on the balcony of her
    Gloucester flat - they've now started to fly indoors"

   12. "Piggy in the middle "
      < http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/2929769.stm >
   "A football match in Austria was brought to a standstill when a piglet ran on
    to the pitch"