Ceiling boar is watching you shop

May 13, 2015 6:15 PM

In the fine tradition of ceiling cat, ceiling boar.

How major media outlets covered this important event: The Independent, Deadspin, SB Nation, BBC, NY Mag, AP

posted by limeonaire (16 comments total)

This meets at the exact intersection of "things that would haunt my most horrifying nightmares" and "things cause me to squee rhapsodic with glee."

Huh.
posted by phunniemee at 6:30 PM on May 13, 2015

Poor boar, he seemed so scared.
posted by Hazelsmrf at 6:34 PM on May 13, 2015 [9 favorites]

I love watching animals mess up human stuff. Ceiling boar reminds me of classics like Seagull Stealing Chips, Deer in Party Store, and Cattle Herd in Store.
posted by foobaz at 6:42 PM on May 13, 2015 [3 favorites]

Ham drop
posted by knoyers at 6:43 PM on May 13, 2015 [1 favorite]

HELLO PEOPWAAAAA HALP HALP HALP
posted by Going To Maine at 6:56 PM on May 13, 2015

Wild boars sure can jump high (at 25 seconds). That was impressive. And unexpected.
posted by kanewai at 7:00 PM on May 13, 2015 [1 favorite]

You might say...

*sunglasses*

...It was boaring, as far as entrances go.

YYEEAAAAHHHHHHHH
posted by Smart Dalek at 7:04 PM on May 13, 2015 [4 favorites]

(Extremely Kreiger voice) aww pigley
posted by The Whelk at 7:34 PM on May 13, 2015 [2 favorites]

This can't be the first time someone has broken into a shop by trying to boar through the ceiling.
posted by traveler_ at 7:36 PM on May 13, 2015 [5 favorites]

Wild animals just can NOT pull off a decent heist.

(Well, not boars, deer or cattle, judging from the links.)
posted by biddeford at 7:46 PM on May 13, 2015 [1 favorite]

I'd give that pig a warm bath and a bed for the night.

Boy went out to see what he felt like wearing and I chopped up my face shaving when he came back ranting about elephants and that he didn't want to go to school. That was a new one.

You never know what you are doing when you investigate claims like that. It is usually nothing but this time it was giant pigs in the fog. Half of them had tusks and they were big enough to crash the roof if they could fly up there.

I went back in, a bit unnerved. We got pigs kid, giant pigs. No elephants. We are going to open both garage doors at the same time, bowl these cabbages Linda gave us at them and get in the gd car quick. That worked, but we forgot his homework. He had a unique excuse that resulted in a WTF phonecall.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 8:28 PM on May 13, 2015 [11 favorites]

The Independent and Deadspin get demerits for not answering the obvious question of "why was there a boar in the ceiling". (The answer was: It climbed a ladder.)
posted by aubilenon at 10:46 PM on May 13, 2015 [3 favorites]

That seems kind of small for a boar, also, where are the tusks? Female I'm guessing, from the lack. My ex used to tell me about the pig boar they had on the farm that would push half-ton rocks around when it didn't like how they were positioned.
posted by Canageek at 12:15 AM on May 14, 2015 [2 favorites]

Isn't Hong Kong a kind of densely-packed urban environment? It's not the sort of place you'd expect a wild boar to hang out in.
posted by tommasz at 3:31 AM on May 14, 2015

While the cities are very densely packed, a great deal of the remaining land is wild, apparently, and satellite view confirms this. Thus the boars.
posted by tavella at 6:55 AM on May 14, 2015

I guess it was rooting around in the ceiling, but below the ceiling is another floor, not the earth, as is the case in the forests or fields of Hong Kong.
posted by ChuckRamone at 8:42 AM on May 14, 2015