Humbug Town Boy Held In Sheep Attack Spree

Poweshiek: Local animal control authorities originally thought a pack of wild dogs had moved into the area to prey on sheep belonging to Oscar Shintz but were astonished when the culprit in question not only turned out to be a lone predator but also a ten year-old boy from nearby Humbug Town.

     Animal Control Officer Gerald Pendleton led a group of five volunteers, including Oscar Shintz, in an effort to capture what he thought was the pack of dogs.

     "Oscar wanted the dogs to be taken in the most humane and environmentally friendly means as possible. So, he let us use three of his sheep as bait and we set up around them in the bushes on Halloween and waited. About 10 pm, a wolf crept into the shadows upwind from the sheep. I thought, 'Oh, damn, we're in for it.' We waited about ten more minutes and then the wolf crawled through the meadow and sprung. As soon as it hit one of the sheep, two of us fired our darts. The wolf started loping across the meadow, then it staggered around in a circle and collapsed. First we checked the ewe to see if it was alright. Then Oscar and I went to check the wolf but we found a boy wrapped up in a tattered old skin with our darts sticking in his side."

     While authorites are not releasing the boy's name, rumors abound that the boy is in fact a resident of Humbug Town's Historic District and a descendant of the Zogu family (May, 1996: Vol. 3, Issue #5, page 1) whose infamous son Locyte was blamed for the murder and cannibalizing of a child in 1860.