Tuesday, August 01, 2006

too big a mouthful...

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.

You probably don't believe this, and thought it to be a lead in to a joke . .

But just look at the following pictures.





2 comments:

Anonymous said...

no wonder... cos the catfish is BIG... poor thing...

kona said...

literally biting off more than he can chew...LOL =))