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Tragic Error: Giant Catfish Dies Trying to Eat Football - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

A catfish met an unpleasant fate in Germany when it tried to eat a football floating in the river. Police patrolling the Main River say it's the weirdest case they've seen in 30 years.

 A police handout photo showing the catfish found in a sluice near the southern city of Würzburg. A giant catfish died trying to eat a soccer ball and was found floating in a river with the ball wedged in its large snout, police in Germany said.

The two-meter long fish was found on Monday in a sluice in the Main River with its teeth sunk into the blue and white plastic ball.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 at 03:35:16 PM EST
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And so ends Germany's Euro-hope.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 at 04:54:48 PM EST
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They were going to play the catfish in place of Ballack?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 at 05:09:53 PM EST
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No, Ballack already played like a catfish...

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
by Melanchthon on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 at 05:50:15 PM EST
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Of course, playing like a catfish was far more elevated than shown by such bottom feeders as the... who didn't make it past the group stages.  It's not easy being second.  (In N'awlins, catfish, properly prepared, is a southern delicacy.)  I bet even that Monagesque (sp?) Alain Ducasse, couldn't cook a proper catfish.

Ballack's free kick goal against the Austrians was rather un-catfish-like, what with being the fiercest goal of the tournament and all.  ;-)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 at 07:40:31 PM EST
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