So then, while the police were listening in, they heard one of the members of this elite criminal empire complaining about the loss of around $22,000 worth of coke due to a wild boar having “destroyed one of the containers with its muzzle.” The police and reporting news organizations apparently took this at face value. 

With the estimated street value of cocaine reported by Newsweek at around $100 per gram, this would put the amount of product lost at a little under half a pound, or about the same amount that a 400 pound wild boar would need to have a killer weekend on the Riviera. As of yet, there have been no reports of high rolling pigs tearing up Monterosso al Mare in a brand new convertible. Also conspicuously absent are reports of anyone feeling suspicious when $22,000 worth of cocaine went missing and a drug dealer said “a pig ate it.” One thing everyone can agree on is that the boar’s got a strong nose for justice.