A wild boar wandered into the library of the Multimedia University (MMU) in Cyberjaya yesterday evening, causing students and staff alike to whip out their phones and start snapping.
The boar apparently entered the building by ramming through a glass panel on the library’s rear entrance at 1.30pm yesterday.
Following the unscheduled visit, all students in the library were asked to vacate the premises, in order to allow the Fire and Rescue Department to safely extricate the boar.
The wild boar was successfully captured and removed from the building two hours later.
“The main hall of the library had to be closed due to the mess caused by firefighters trying to catch the animal,” said Kamal Sujak, MMU’s head librarian, as quoted by Harian Metro.
Kamal assured the student body that the 24-hour reading lounge was still open for use, however.
“The boar probably lost its way from the jungle areas nearby, seeing how there’s been so much development near Cyberjaya lately,” he added.
Maybe the boar was looking for a good book on jungle preservation?
UPDATE: the boar was removed from the library with extreme measures, it seems. The animal was herded and beaten with a heavy bamboo cane in the MMU library – to the consternation of many who saw the viral images that followed. We have more on Malaysians’ reactions to the brutal treatment here.
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