A Fish Story This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday Wichita Eagle Newspaper a couple of weeks ago. 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 wouldn't have believed this, if you hadn't seen the following pictures...
I had a co-worker send me a pic of a catfish swallowing a basketball several months ago. I wonder if this is another incident or just an old story repeated. Either way, it's pretty weird.
I knew I wasn't dreaming. It was reported a year ago... http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/catfish-ball.htm. I was gonna say the laws of probability seemed to be a bit skewed when it comes to catfish swallowing basketballs...
