Have You Heard the One About the Boy and the Penguin?

Not too long ago my husband told me an outrageous story a co-worker had told him about a boy who smuggled a penguin out of an aquarium in his backpack. He swore up and down the story was true, and he believed it was, but I wasn’t falling for it. I told him I was going to check it out on Snopes and that’s exactly what I did. The result? It’s as I suspected. An urban legend. The Premise It’s told in different forms. The version Wayne told me was of a little boy who’d snuck off and had somehow … Continue reading