The best version of this was on TV, on Front Line, or
A Current Affair, or somesuch. I saw it and taped it
(don't have the tape anymore) so it's definately not
heresay. Anyhow, a woman in the south, or eastern, US
had a bunch of pink lawn flamingos stolen. Then she
started getting video tapes from the "Pelican Liberation
Front". On the videos was a guy with a horrible fake
middle eastern accent, wearing dishtowels as headgear,
torturing the "pelican". They took blow torches to the
bird, hung it, and the best one, drowned it in the toilet.
In the last case they had a voiceover the the bird screaming
which turned to gurgling as it was submerged.
The TV show interviewd the local cops, who weren't real
amused. They took pictures of the approach, the getaway,
the scene of the crime. Then they developed 27 8 X 10
color glossy photographs.... (for those of you who've heard
the ballad of Alice's Restaurant).
R.