“I’d like to report a crime,” said the man who called a Maryland sheriff’s office on April 16. There was a theft, he explained, involving a freight truck.“So they stole the whole freight?” a dispatcher asked.“Only took the cargo,” the man answered. It was valued, he said, at about $100,000.The dispatcher asked what was stolen. The caller hesitated.“They took … basically … they took a whole trailer full of eggs.”The hens were unaware of the heist. They had done their part: the shuffling around, t...