Sometimes, not even being an international, Grammy-winning pop star can save you from the wrath of wild boars — just askShakira.
In a new interview withGlamour UK, Shakira, 44, opened up about the bizarre incident, and said it happened completely out of the blue.
“It’s just crazy! I was taking my son, Milan, for a walk in the park and I got him a little ice cream,” she recalled. “We sat on one of those park benches and we were just minding our own business. And then two huge wild boars came from the back and ambushed [us] and took my purse!”
The singer said she began yelling as the boars made off with her belongings, but despite her cries, no one else in the park stepped in to offer a helping hand.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God! Oh my God!’ and screaming, because they were taking it away, with my phone in it, my car keys, everything,” she said. “Like they could understand me! And people were just watching and they weren’t doing anything!”
Shakira.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Shakira said that the boars began digging in her purse, and that they eventually grabbed her son’s sandwich from the bag, which she believes is what attracted them in the first place.
“It was wild,” she added.
“Look at how two wild boars, which attacked me in the park, have left my bag. They were taking my bag to the woods with my mobile phone in it,” she said in the video. “They’ve destroyed everything.”
In the clip, she showed off the torn black bag, which was covered in dirt and had begun fraying inside, and said she was able to retrieve it after she confronted the animals and they left.
“Milan, tell the truth,” she told her son in the clip, according to theBBC. “Say how your mummy stood up to the wild boar.”
Though Shakira’s encounter with the boars might seem rare, wild boar sightings have been on the rise in Europe in recent years. In 2016, police in Barcelona received 1,187 calls reporting the animals attacking dogs and holding up traffic, according to the BBC.
The outlet reported that there are now more than 10 million wild boars across the continent, and that they are heading to cities because they’re attracted to trash piles in the streets.
source: people.com
