So I don't really like spreading rumors but this one is funny and I'm not too far removed from it. I'll just say it is a friend of a friend's cousin, that this happened too. It is from memory so it's going to sound a lot like I made it up, but I did not make this story up. Someone else along the line might have made it up, but I promise I have not. (Doesn't every urban legend start like that?)
A couple and their young boy visit the New England Aquarium in Boston for the first time a few weeks ago. They go, they have fun and eventually they head home. Once they get home the kid tells their parent that he wants to take a bath and go play with his new pet penguin. The parents were amused that the trip had gotten the boy's imagination going, but more importantly they were happy to have him take the initiative to bathe. So they let the boy run to the bathroom, and start to make dinner. Pretty soon they start hearing a lot of splashing and noise coming from the bathroom, so they go check up on him. When they get there they find the boy with a real live penguin in the bathtub. Apparently the kid had somehow gotten the penguin and snuck him out in his backpack. The kid and the bird get checked out (they might have even been quarantined), and that's the last I have heard of it.
I've looked it up in the Boston Globe and Boston Herald, but I found anything about a kid taking a penguin from the aquarium... so that makes me skeptical. But then again I wonder if this is the sort of story the aquarium wants to keep quiet considering how apparently easy it is to steal a penguin.
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