The Mysterious Flamingo Beheadings
Posted: March 26, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption | Tags: Associated Press, Chilean Flamingo, Die Welt, Frankfurt, Frankfurt Zoo, Frankfurt Zoological Garden, Germany, Manfred Niekisch 1 Comment
Somebody is beheading the Frankfurt Zoo’s flamingos
For The Week, Peter Weber writes: People do all kinds of stupid, crazy things, but what kind of a monster sneaks into a zoo and beheads sleeping flamingos? Officials at Germany’s Frankfurt Zoo want to know rather urgently, after discovering 15 dead Chilean flamingos late last week, several of them with severed necks.
“Who would do such a thing? Psychopaths? Was it a completely out-of-order test of courage among young people? Or was it Satanists?”
— Die Welt
The attacks happened Thursday and Friday nights, and police and zookeepers are flummoxed. Three flamingos were killed at the same zoo in 2007, and that case was never solved.
“Who would do such a thing?” asked Germany’s Die Welt on Monday. “Psychopaths? Was it a completely out-of-order test of courage among young people? Or was it Satanists?” The stab wounds in some birds point to a human culprit…Read more…
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