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| - From the piglet who took the train, to the bear who likes to break into cars... Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home, and this little piggy took the metro... A young wild boar brought home the bacon for headline writers around the world when he took not just one but two subway trains in Hong Kong. The porker repeatedly gave staff trying to catch him the slip, hopping off one train and then onto another in the densely-populated territory which is the home to subtropical jungle as well as a forest of skyscrapers. The boar was only caught when the train was diverted to a depot. Hong Kong's wandering wild pigs have been previously spotted at the airport -- though none have so far managed to stow away -- with some falling through the ceiling of a clothing store. Heaven knows what might happen if the boar was to team up with New Hampshire's car thief bear. The American black bear was caught on security cameras using his paws to open the door of a pick-up truck and then climbing nonchalantly into the driver's seat. The film solved the mystery of a string of car break-ins in the area. So far the serial offender hasn't managed to start any of the vehicles. The animal madness does not end there. Prisoners in an Australian jail had to be evacuated when it was overrun by some of the millions of mice who have been ravaging New South Wales in the country's worst mouse plague in memory. Also dreaming of freedom is a runaway herd of cows who escaped from a Los Angeles slaughterhouse. The sheriff's men had to round them up on horseback after they ran amok in the streets of Pico Rivera. One of the cows was shot, while another did get away. Legendary songwriter Diane Warren has offered to buy the cow to spare her from the butcher's block, sparking calls to save the others too. In a vintage week for animal puns, otters at Oregon Zoo were given an ice bath as temperatures in Portland reached 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit). With the mercury forecast to hit 42 Celsius, the zoo said it was going to "set the A/C to ottermatic". Police in central India are trying to sniff out robbers who made off with nearly a tonne of cow dung from a store in Chhattisgarh state. Cow manure is in big demand in India with its Hindu nationalist government -- who consider cattle sacred -- investing billions of rupees in ways to use it for mosquito repellent, shampoo and even toothpaste. Some MPs also tout drinking bovine urine as a Covid cure. A woman had to be rescued from a fountain in the French city of Dijon after she threw thousands of euros into the water and then dived in for a swim. No one quite knows why she chose to splash out like this, but firefighters managed to retrieve 47,000 euros ($56,000) in sodden notes. bur-fg/jmy/tgb
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