Shanghai’s newspapers reported a particularly bizarre story in October. A four-year-old deaf boy disappeared at Beijing Zoo, only to resurface the following day at another zoo—in Shanghai. When the boy’s parents realised their son was missing they notified police and made postings on various websites. A man in Shanghai quickly responded to an internet post, saying he had seen a boy who fitted the description at Shanghai Zoo. The parents immediately flew to Shanghai, where they were reunited with their son at a local police station.

The only possible explanation police could offer was that the boy’s kidnappers decided to dump him after discovering his disability. Why they decided to leave him at another zoo, 1,300km from Beijing, is anyone’s guess.

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posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 link to this post