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.
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.
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
A last drink proved one too many for a 78-year-old Swede who fell asleep while trying to row home - from Denmark. Reports say the man had been drinking in the Danish town of Helsingor but found he did not have enough money for the ferry home to Sweden. Instead of waiting until morning, he stole a dinghy and tried to row the 5km (three miles) across the Oresund Strait to Helsingborg, police said. But he fell asleep half-way and drifted until he was rescued by the coastguard.
A last drink proved one too many for a 78-year-old Swede who fell asleep while trying to row home - from Denmark.
Reports say the man had been drinking in the Danish town of Helsingor but found he did not have enough money for the ferry home to Sweden.
Instead of waiting until morning, he stole a dinghy and tried to row the 5km (three miles) across the Oresund Strait to Helsingborg, police said.
But he fell asleep half-way and drifted until he was rescued by the coastguard.
We'll teach you to drink deep e'er you depart.
It may sound funny, but for some Bavarian and Austrian men finger wrestling is no joke. They take it very seriously: For them it's about prestige and honor. In the old days, people say, it was used to settle disputes. Today it has the standing of a national sport in the Alpine region of southern Germany and neighboring Austria. But anyone who thinks Fingerhakeln -- "finger wrestling" -- is some kind of amusing time-waster Bavarian men engage in after a few too many beers down at the village inn is very mistaken. The sport's practitioners take it very seriously.
It may sound funny, but for some Bavarian and Austrian men finger wrestling is no joke. They take it very seriously: For them it's about prestige and honor.
In the old days, people say, it was used to settle disputes. Today it has the standing of a national sport in the Alpine region of southern Germany and neighboring Austria.
But anyone who thinks Fingerhakeln -- "finger wrestling" -- is some kind of amusing time-waster Bavarian men engage in after a few too many beers down at the village inn is very mistaken. The sport's practitioners take it very seriously.
The Royal Air Force has declared its Typhoon jets multi-role capable on the 1st July 2008.
Yep, soon expected in Afghanistan 'winning hearts and minds'. The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-reign-of-spain-european-champions-of-nearly-every thing-857602.html
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
