"Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
Ian Fleming's criminal mastermind Auric Goldfinger threatened British superspy James Bond with those words, perhaps the most quotable line of any of the Bond novels. That line was running through my mind as I considered the latest news from the Dallas Zoo.
Earlier this week, lappet-faced vulture "Pin" was found deceased at the Zoo in a manner that officials are describing as suspicious and unnatural. The police have been brought in and a $10,000 dollar reward has been offered for information leading to the apprehension of the perpetrator. Of course, Dallas was in the news barely a week earlier after a clouded leopard escaped from its enclosure, which seems to have been deliberately cut (the cat was safely recaptured). Shortly afterwards, a similar cut was discovered at the langur exhibit, though thankfully none of the monkeys escaped.
You can see where folks might start to see a pattern here.
A lot of theories are being batted around. An animal rights extremist, perhaps one who got a job at the Zoo so they could cause mischief from within? A disgruntled employee or ex-employee? Just some random yahoo who's determined a method for sneaking in and out of the grounds? I have no idea. At any rate, the police are involved now, and hopefully they will get to the bottom of this - before this crisis gets even worse for the animals of the Dallas Zoo and the people who care for them.
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