The news article is from a link off of the snopes.com website. I've
read news stories where people have stolen bizarre things, including a
huge steel bridge, but this is a new one...
LONDON (AP) - British police were searching for a shark stolen from an
aquatics shop over the weekend in southern England.
The female Australian marbled cat shark was one of a breeding pair
kept in a converted garage in the back of a store owned by Peter
Newman in Farnborough, about 20 miles west of London's Heathrow
Air****t, police said Tuesday.
The shark, two feet long and mottled brown, is rare in Britain, police
said.
Newman, 68, said he realized the shark was missing Saturday morning
when he found the door to the converted garage ajar and the lights on
inside.
"I'm just very angry really," he told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
"Whoever came in there clearly knew what they were after. They
probably would have taken the pair, but the male's a bit harder to
catch really."
The two sharks have produced seven pups, which are kept in an adjacent
tank, Newman said. None of them were taken in the theft.
His wife, June Newman, said the pair might together be worth as much
as $20,000 because of their rarity. She said her husband might have
left a door unlocked.
She also said she was puzzled by the theft, explaining that it would
have been difficult to snatch the shark because the top of the tank
was around five feet off the ground.
"It's mind-boggling to me as to how this shark has been taken," she
said.
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I have to say, I'd be angry, too. How many people have the money and
knowledge necessary to maintain the correct environment for this
little guy? Yeah, yeah, it's "just a fish," but it just seems so
wrong. And weird.
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