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Divers Probed for Giving Fish Champagne
Reuters ^
| 08 Jan 04
| Unkown
Posted on 01/08/2004 11:15:10 AM PST by AreaMan
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Three Polish divers faced a police investigation Thursday for possible illegal fishing and animal abuse after a news photo showed them plying a freshly caught pike with champagne at an outdoor New Year's party.
Reuters Photo
"They may have committed offences of poaching and maltreating a fish," said Maria Niedziolka of the National Fishing Authority, which notified police of the incident.
The picture in Nowa Trybuna daily showed three frogmen neck-deep in a lake, with one of them tipping a bottle of cheap Russian bubbly into the fish's open mouth.
One of the divers told news agency PAP that they had found the pike half-dead and wanted to "restore it to consciousness by treating it with champagne."
It was not clear whether the fish survived. Police said it would not be needed as evidence in the investigation.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: animalrights; fish
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To: martin_fierro; MotleyGirl70
Good Lord, girl. You got skills. At least you didn't say gills.
To: evets
ROTFL!
42
posted on
01/08/2004 12:11:51 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. - (LOTR))
To: AreaMan
What a waste of champagne.
"Maltreating" fish???? get real.
To: swarthyguy
I've about haddock with you.
<|:)~
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posted on
01/08/2004 12:15:10 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Any musical with a PBY-5 Catalina in it can't be all bad.)
To: AreaMan
Most "
Humorus post of the day award" nomination bumps.
Too many great replies to grade.
Fabulous!
Thanks for the post.
45
posted on
01/08/2004 12:15:20 PM PST
by
G.Mason
(I won't call them Nazis until the second revolution begins)
To: martin_fierro
Can't handle the trout, can you?
To: CheneyChick
Can't drink like a fish anymore?LOL!!!!!
To: CheneyChick
Wrong kind of poaching, I guess.
Hey, that's my first thought: Pike, champagne, feed the fish.
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posted on
01/08/2004 12:17:47 PM PST
by
bootless
(Never Forget)
To: sweetliberty
"
ROTFL! Well, it's creative anyway. Still, there's something fishy about this story."
I thought so too.
Shouldn't the police charged them with drinking and diving?
49
posted on
01/08/2004 12:18:17 PM PST
by
G.Mason
(I won't call them Nazis until the second revolution begins)
To: farmfriend
ping
To: michigander
They were marinading it.
That was my first thought. There are some Chinese dishes like Drunken Prawns that these police would absolutely hate.
51
posted on
01/08/2004 12:21:18 PM PST
by
doodad
To: AreaMan
This was just a joke. The fish is dead. And all of you fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
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posted on
01/08/2004 12:24:25 PM PST
by
doodad
To: Shermy; AreaMan; Kenny Bunk; Grampa Dave; pokerbuddy0; swarthyguy; aristeides; seamole; okie01
I am aghast that this barbaric plongeur (americain, sans doute) would dare to let the pike drink directly from le bouteille. Jacques Cousteau always had the correct flutes aboard the Calypso.
However, I suppose the fellow is allowed to marinate from the inside out, if he so desires.
To: AreaMan; AAABEST; Ace2U; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; AndreaZingg; Anonymous2; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
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posted on
01/08/2004 12:32:21 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: CheneyChick; Airborne Longhorn; MotleyGirl70
What's wrong with that? Can't drink like a fish anymore? There are some cod-awful jokes so far....
If you took PayPal, I'd slip you a fin for a pun, but it would serve no porpoise.
Anyway, I 'd make a pun, but it's too tough to scale your efforts...:)
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posted on
01/08/2004 12:36:43 PM PST
by
bwteim
(Begin With The End In Mind)
To: AreaMan
One of the divers told news agency PAP that they had found the pike half-dead and wanted to "restore it to consciousness by treating it with champagne." I wish I had thought of that line on some of the occasions when I had to explain to various parents, dorm monitors, etc. why my date was a little unsteady on her feet.
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posted on
01/08/2004 12:45:13 PM PST
by
blau993
(Labs for love; .357 for Security.)
To: bwteim
ROTF!
I've been trolling this thread long enough. I'm cod-da' here. :)
To: AreaMan
Screw the fish, these guys should be charged with abuse of alcohol.
To: evets
WOW...is that from one of the old "Wacky Packages" stickers? I remember those back in second grade...
59
posted on
01/08/2004 12:48:36 PM PST
by
beezdotcom
(I'm usually either right or wrong.)
To: beezdotcom
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posted on
01/08/2004 12:51:49 PM PST
by
evets
(I am the frito bandito)
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