Divers Probed for Giving Fish Champagne

Reuters ^ | 08 Jan 04 | Unkown

[AreaMan]

Divers Probed for Giving Fish Champagne

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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.

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"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.

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Ping.

whatareyoutryingtosay?

[telebob]

I don't think this case is going anywhere. I have the feeling it will just flounder...

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Screw the fish, these guys should be charged with abuse of alcohol.

I don't want a photo of THAT!

[xsmommy]

punny fishy posts!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Technically speakin' of course, they couldn't get charged with poaching the fish until AFTER they plied it with champange, marinated it a while, THEN poached it over a low heat with spices and herbs....

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[appalachian_dweller]

>> Wacky Packages" stickers <<

I remember those! Funny Funy Funny!!!

[appalachian_dweller]

Thanks for posting the link! I loved these things as a kid. Checking them out was a nice trip down memory lane.

[sweetliberty]

[A. Pole]

You have a problem with them apprehending these sadistic criminals? Who knows what they might do next!

Eat the victim?

[sweetliberty]

"Eat the victim?"

That would be unseamly.

[albee]

"C'mon y'all...there's a joke or two in there somewhere...have at it!!"

The whole article sounds like a bad Polish joke!

[invoman]

After the pike got drunk...he went babe hunting:

[AnAmericanMother]

Next thing you know, they're going to be busted for transporting gulls across stale lions for immortal porpoises . . .

On the other hand, I used to have a horse that loved beer. He began to whicker when he saw you wrapping the washcloth around the neck of a long-neck Bud. He'd tip up his head and we'd put the neck of the bottle in the corner of his mouth and glug-glug-glug. He loved it.

We asked the vet if it was o.k., and (when he stopped laughing) he opined that as long as we didn't give him so much that he fell down . . .