"George" wrote in message ...
Umm, I find that explanation a little hard to believe. Do you know where
one can buy a six feet diameter dead octopus in Clarksville, Indiana?

Six feet diameter means that each tentacle was about 3 feet long.
This is not very big octopus. Rather average one...
I can tell you where one can buy such thing in Chicago!
There is no reason this man could not buy one in any big city
seafood market and drive with it in his truck keeping it on ice.

And what surprises me most is that for you, buying an octopus
on a seafood market is for you less probable than such invertebrate
living in freshwater...
If I see him catching this animal live in the river - that
would be a different story :-) But dead? No... it was IMHO a prank.