MMMM #412-- Please tell me there will be no collectors calling this poor man!

    

      Lot of reports out of Sarasota, Florida, about a man who spread some of his fiance's ashes at an eyewear store...one she had some connection to...causing the panicky authorities to close down the mall and call out every law enforcement agency in 100 miles.
     This local report indicates charges are not expected, but others have suggested the authorities may try to recover the cost of the police and fire action from the man.
     SOMEBODY! Call them and tell them what a terrible idea that is, if for no other reason that the bad PR!
    Chalk it up to an exercise. Then go back to the station.
    As you were. 

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     The headline yesterday brought back memories from a sad chapter in the Birmingham Zoo's history. It read:

4 Month Old Baby Rhino Dies


     The death at The Montgomery Zoo brought me back to the death of two other animals at the Birmingham Zoo, and a scandal that engulfed the institution in 1978.
     An adult male hippo and it's child died as zoo workers tried to load them onto a truck for transport to another zoo.
     As I recall there was a revelation during the city court trial that the Zoo Director, Bob Truett, had used a cattle prod on the animals.
     Folks who lived in Birmingham back then may remember that he got into more hot water later for scheduling a talk for Zoo employees about the nudist camp he ran.
     Truett once unintentionally listed the Zoo's number in a brochure for the zoo..or maybe it was vis versa.
     Course the animals were neked, so what was the problem?


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