Don't release your exotic animals out into the wild

"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"George" wrote in message
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David Stepp was fishing for catfish with friends on the Ohio River
Monday night when he reeled in a bizarre catch - an octopus.

It was dead, but only recently.

I would say it was a prank joke - it is hard to believe
an octopus would survive in fresh water any time...
And they decompose pretty quickly. He got one from the
oriental sea-food market and play a joke on his friends :-)

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?

George

"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.

"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"George" wrote in message
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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.

Looks like you were right after all - good call:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/...WS01/608110345

An octopus hooked in the Ohio River by a fisherman had been put there by a
film student who bought it at a seafood store and videotaped the creature.

Zachary Treitz, 21, of Crescent Hill in Louisville, said he bought the
octopus -- dead and frozen -- for $26 and put it in the river after
shooting the video Sunday for a film project.

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By the way, I never said that it was living in fresh water. I never made
any claim at all as to how it got there. I just didn't know that one could
get such a large octopus this far inland in an area where not a lot of
people eat the things. As to catching it, fishermen in that area often
troll for fish, so they snag all kinds of things on a regular basis. It's
just that this is the first time anyone has heard of anyone snagging an
octopus, I guess. Anyway, I'm glad that's settled. I need a break!

George