Wednesday, July 14, 2004

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"