Catfish

This was emailed to me a few weeks ago. We don't have anything like this around here. I thought it would make for an interesting posting.





A Fish Story
>>A local resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind
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>>of strange in a nearby pond and went to investigate.
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>>It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously
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>>tried to swallow a child's basketball which became stuck in its
mouth!!
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>>The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive,
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>>but unable to because the ball would always bring him
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>>back up to the surface. The resident tried numerous times to
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>>get the ball out, but was unsuccessful. He finally had his
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>>wife cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry
catfish.
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>>You probably wouldn't have believed this,
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>>if you hadn't seen the following pictures...
>>"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some
kind of
>>battle."