Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Rhino

A Flash of Fiction #1
Reports are coming out from museums, some small and some large, of the theft of rhinoceros horns. You see the horns are being mashed up and sold on the black market. You see some believe, primarily in the East, that ground up rhino horns can be used for medicinal purposes as an aphrodisiac and in some cases a cure for cancer and other diseases. You see, don't you, that this is a great travesty and could only be worsened if rhino horns were replaced with something even more rare and apt to be ground to a fine powder and used as a cure-all. What if it were antique pottery found amongst the ruins at Pompeii?
Levi Surfdom, a detective from the Arts and Antiques unit in Cromwall, is urging museums to remove any advertising on websites and other publications of rhino's housed in museums. The remaining antiquated rhinoceros horns are to be closely guarded, behind a glass cage, with motion and laser sensors. Upon reading this a one-time criminal mind starts plotting the largest simultaneous museum heist for rhinoceros horns ever attempted in the world.


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