--- description: Casual title: Here's a Huge Wild Boar Crashing Through a Mall Ceiling image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's a Huge Wild Boar Crashing Through a Mall Ceiling in Hong Kong by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 12, 2015 2:47 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 12, 2015 2:47 PM CUT This past weekend, a wild boar managed to escape the forest and make her way into a mall in Hong Kong. She stayed in the mall for about four hours, eventually getting trapped inside a children’s clothing store, the BBC [reports](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32688067 "undefined"). The boar — whose name is unknown, so for now, let’s just call her Laverne — apparently climbed up a ladder. Then she fell through the shop’s ceiling, as you’ll see in the footage above. You’ll also notice that Laverne was quite a crowd pleaser. A group of gasping, squealing onlookers gathered to watch her fall into the store, where she proceeded to run around knocking over child-sized mannequins. Laverne, who weighs an estimated 55 lbs., was eventually tranquilized and taken to an animal rehabilitation center. Poor Laverne. She was probably at the mall looking for her Shirley. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3855344/wild-boar-falls-through-mall-ceiling/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3855344/wild-boar-falls-through-mall-ceiling/"},"headline":"Here's a Huge Wild Boar Crashing Through a Mall Ceiling in Hong Kong","datePublished":"2015-05-12T14:47:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:40.374Z","description":"Casual","url":"https://time.com/3855344/wild-boar-falls-through-mall-ceiling/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3855344/wild-boar-falls-through-mall-ceiling/","name":"Here's a Huge Wild Boar Crashing Through a Mall Ceiling in Hong Kong"}}]}] ```