WATCH: Wild boars corner woman in carpark and steal her groceries Vids 1 hour ago
A woman in Italy was recently cornered in a supermarket carpark by a group of wild boars, forcing her to throw her grocery bags to the floor and run away.
The video shows the woman backing away from six boars, four adults and four younger ones.
The woman attempts to get the wild animals away by waving her grocery bags, but they persisted, forcing the woman to throw the bags down.
The video was recorded in the village of Le Rughe, which is about 30KM away from Rome. It s estimated that pigs are responsible for around 1,000 road accidents per year in Italy, The Sun reports.
WATCH: Wild boars ambush woman and steal her groceries! Updated
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We as South Africans are no strangers to wild animal encounters.
You only have to live in KZN for a short time and you can probably recount multiple monkey-related interactions and incidents (Because let s be honest - they are not all positive).
In other countries, you won t necessarily find the abundance of truly wild animals on your doorstep as you would in SA.
Let s take a look at Italy.
While there might be rural areas full of indigenous, undomesticated creatures, they very much keep to themselves and stay out of the human areas.
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Video shows moment wild boars ambush woman in a supermarket parking lot in Italy to steal her groceries May 17, 2021, 04:38 PM
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A video shows wild boars surrounding a woman in an Italian car park and then stealing her groceries.
The video, posted on social media on Thursday, shows the woman dropping her bags in defeat.
Wild boars are a menace in Italy, where their population is thought to be in the millions.
A herd of wild boars was caught on camera ambushing and stealing grocery bags from a woman who had just come out of a supermarket near Rome, Italy on Thursday.
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A video posted to social media has reignited the debate around the presence of wild boars in Italian cities and towns after the video showed a herd of boar cornering a woman in a supermarket parking lot and stealing her groceries.
Posted to Facebook on Thursday, the video shows a family of boars, four adults and two young boars, aggressively pursuing a woman as she walks around a supermarket parking lot in the village of Le Rughe in the province of Roma, Italy.
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