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Le Cochon Volant: The Flying Pig
An oil and gas pipeline company is laying a pipeline from Wyoming to San Diego. The construction crew for the pipeline is nearly all French-speaking Cajuns who have been pipeliners for years. Many of them have worked all around the world but call southern Louisiana home.
The pipeline traverses portions of the Mojave Desert that are habitat for the endangered desert tortoise. A portion of the pipeline crosses the Clark Mountains of southern California near the Nevada state line. The pipeline company has a permit that allows for the accidental death of up to five tortoises. They have killed three. Sean O’Flaithearta and his team of biological consultants have come in to monitor desert tortoises and prevent any more mortalities.
Sean O’Flaithearta is testing a new system for identifying flying bats by simultaneously recording their ultrasonic call and their picture. He sets up his equipment at an isolated desert spring where bats drink. Along with the calls of bats, Sean’s system records ultrasonic squeals made by the brakes of vehicles stopping near the spring. The acoustic signal of the brake noise is unique to each vehicle. Sean sets up his bat monitoring system in the pipeline’s equipment yard and records one of the same brake squeals about an hour before his equipment records it at the spring. Sean’s curiosity is piqued. Why is some vehicle leaving the pipeline yard and then appearing at the spring? Sean’s equipment records two brake squeals and gunshots at the spring the night before a heavy equipment operator’s body is discovered in the hole he was digging. Who murdered the operator and why?
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