A Flower Crime Turns Fruitful

Thursday, 06 June 2013 | by Pat's Picks

Sometimes, it pays to break the law. The LA Times says a horticulturist’s decision to steal a prized lotus species from a California park has turned out to be fortuitous. Randy McDonald did his illegal snipping eight years ago—just in time, it turned out. The lotus in question started dying about seven years ago—by 2008 they were extinct. Except, of course, for the specimen McDonald had smuggled out and cultivated.

SOURCE: LA Times