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Posted on May 25, 2008
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Wild Boar Help Police Round up Car Thieves

A duo of young car thieves were thwarted in their attempt to evade police capture on Wednesday night when some wild boar got in their way. Police had to rescue one of the suspects from a herd of wild boar defending their young.

DPA

Wild Boar helped police catch a pair of car thieves.

Wild boar have had some bad press recently (more…) in Germany with increasing numbers of the animals venturing into cities in search of food. However, late on Wednesday night the feral creatures made something of a contribution to law and order by helping police round up some crime suspects.

The incident happened when police in the eastern village of Schönberg spotted two 18-year-olds in a sport utility vehicle that had been reported stolen three days previously and gave chase. The two car thieves then rammed the patrol car before swerving into a corn field to escape. According to police in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the delinquent duo then got stuck in a piece of forest and decided to flee by foot.

The police officers managed to nab one of the suspects immediately but the other was surrounded by a herd of wild boar intent on protecting their young. The police freed the young man from his perilous situation and promptly arrested him.

Help will sometimes come from the most unexpected quarters, won’t it? Maybe the police should have taken their time and allowed the wild boar to do scare the perpetrators into an honest life? Hmmnnnn, would have been nice, but I can just hear the screaming from some well-heeled liberals about how inhuman that would have been… Oh well, gentle reader, we can’t be cruel to animals, not even of the two legged variety… no matter how tempting.

By the way, if you notice that this post does not fit in with this blog’s usual fare, it’s simply because I felt we could all use some comic relief. What’s that? You think I’m being too cruel to the pigs? Which ones?

Chaim

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