April 28, 2005

4/28 - Catfeeeesh Tale

From The  Sunday WichitaEagle Newspaper: A  resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in a nearby  pond and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had  obviously tried to swallow a child's basketball which became stuck in its  mouth.    
The fish  was totally exhausted from trying to dive, but unable to because the ball would always  bring him back up to the surface. The resident tried numerous times to get the ball out, but was  unsuccessful. He finally had his wife cut the ball in order to deflate it  and release the hungry catfish.
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Bob the catfish thought he had a career in the NBA, but swam off dejected when his slam dunk effort had to be surgically removed

Posted by Randy Olson at April 28, 2005 02:11 AM