Giant Catfish Dies Trying to Eat Football
A catfish in Germany met its fate when it tried to eat a soccer ball that was floating in the river. Police spotted the catfish and say it’s the weirdest thing they have ever seen!
“The catfish had evidently bitten into the ball and suffocated,” Bavarian police said in a statement. “Whether the fish was swept up in the current excitement about football in the wake of the EURO 2008 championship could not be ascertained.”
Reiner Jünger of the river police said: “I’ve never seen anything like this in 30 years on the job.”
He said catfish are among the biggest freshwater predators. They lie in wait on the river bed and attack prey on the surface. They sometimes even attack ducks swimming past.