Behind the aquarium theft is a craze for shark tanks that speaks to a total loss of perspective about our place in the food chain
News that thieves had stolen a shark from a Texas aquarium by disguising it as a baby in a pram prompted many questions, chief among them: “Who calls a shark Miss Helen?” But the second – “Why?” – had already been answered in the Wall Street Journal days earlier, one assumes by happenstance, in a piece declaring: “Home shark tanks are in”.
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