MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Brandon Griggs @ CNN.com, Sept. 5
The long list of stolen items sounds like an arachnophobe's nightmare. Rhinocerous roaches. Six-eyed sand spiders. Red spot assassin bugs. Zebra tarantulas. Desert hairy scorpions. These rare insects are among 80 species of live crawly critters stolen from the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion last month in a bizarre and brazen crime that has produced plenty of suspects but no arrests.
The thieves cleaned out more than 80% of the museum's collection -- some 7,000 individual creatures, including whole colonies of roaches and other bugs -- a haul valued at $40,000 [....]
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Eww. Then again, some of them are quite photogenic. They're also quite valuable, so the thieves may have had a reason beyond sheer idiocy.
by barefooted on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 9:40pm