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Penguin Story all Wet


Story aired: Friday, December 02, 2005
National Public Radio - Boston


Officials at the New England Aquarium are so concerned about a rumor that's going around that they held a press conference yesterday to put a stop to it.

The story is that a 12-year-old boy with autism visits the aquarium with his mother. She loses him in the crowd. When she finds him, he's agitated. They go home, she gives the boy a bath to calm him down and when she checks on him, the boy is splashing around in the bath with a penguin he smuggled home in his backpack.

We just had to get to the bottom of this.

Source: NPR
http://www.here-now.org/shows/2005/12/20051202_13.asp
This sounds like an urban myth. Does anybody know the play by Willy Russell 'Our day out'? It could be taken from that.
Ha!  It's an old urban legend that was recorded as such back in 1993 >>

http://www.snopes.com/critters/farce/smuggled.asp
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