Not diplomatic: Boar chases British ambassador in Austria
May 17, 2017
VIENNA (AP) — Some situations leave even the most seasoned diplomats unprepared. Take a British ambassador's encounter with a wild boar.
Leigh Turner, Britain's ambassador to Austria, says he was left shaken and lightly injured after being chased recently by a hostile boar in Vienna's Lainzer Tiergarten nature park.
He wrote that a "massive" boar charged at him after he chanced upon a group of the animals — several adults and some piglets — in the woods. He said the boar "never made contact," but he sustained minor injuries caused by slipping while trying to climb a tree.
Although Turner says...
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