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Boar Crashes Church Breakfast

2008 has seen a rash of boar attacks

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 28, 2008 6:11 PM CST

(Newser) – Mothers and their children were eating breakfast in a Frankfurt church yesterday when a wild boar came crashing in through a glass door, Der Spiegel reports. The sow ran feverishly around the room and exited the same way it came in, leaving moms and kids... Read full story »

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