Yesterday morning an 80-kilogramme, 1.5-metre-long wild boar wandered into a park in Sha Tin Tau village in Tai Wai.
As Apple Daily reports, our snouted friend was perhaps simply taking advantage of the nice weather and hoping to get a bit of sun.
Residents called the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD), who arrived fully armed: the vet had her tranquilizer gun, and her companions had riot shields.
(Why the hell does the AFCD have riot shields? We guess those pro-democracy monkeys and anti-Occupy wild boar can get pretty rowdy…)
After three hours of the pig confusedly but calmly trying to go on about its day, only to find itself blocked by men with shields, the vet shot the animal with her tranquilizer gun.
The AFCD officials first made sure the wild boar was indeed out cold by using the very scientific method of poking it with a long stick, and then put the pig in a cage so that it could be released in Hong Kong’s great outdoors.
Watch the mildly amusing Apple Daily video here (if you’re wondering what they’re saying, it’s a first-person narration from the pig’s perspective, naturally).
Photo: Screenshot via Apple Daily
