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freefallkev 05-04-10 09:24 AM

Most interesting roadkill I've seen
 
I saw this today on my ride to work:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._2325863_n.jpg

yup. a catfish. in the middle of the street.

there is no body of water near where I found it. I thought maybe someone could have just tossed it, but that seems unlikely - who throws away a perfectly good fish? (well, they taste like crap, but people down here eat them anyway...). It has a long dorsal and anal fin, so maybe it's a walking catfish?

Any other theories?

spock 05-04-10 09:36 AM

It's a successful attempts by fish nasa to send one of their own into outer space.

It's probably a fish (still alive) that jerked it self out of back of the truck while the fisherman was going home to eat it.

imi 05-04-10 09:57 AM

I think it's just a very ugly ground squirrel...

pharasz 05-04-10 10:01 AM

Do you have Osprey's where you live? We have a lot of those in Florida. Perhaps one dropped his catch. I once saw an Osprey carrying a fish so large it was struggling to gain the altitude it needed to reach its nest.

opie 05-04-10 10:08 AM

I have no theory.. but catfish is good eatin. Mmmm Mmmm good

starla 05-04-10 10:09 AM

I've run across two fish in the road that I can remember. My theory is that someone either threw them out or lost them after a fishing trip.

day1si 05-04-10 10:11 AM

About 3 weeks ago, for about a week, there was a ziploc bag full of fish on my commute. :)
Not as off as a fish all by himself in the road far off from water, but still a fishy commute.

pharasz 05-04-10 10:15 AM

And then there was the day I saw about a DOZEN M&M peanuts bags strewn across the road, with their guts smashed all over the place. I was horrified. What a tragedy!

CommuterRun 05-04-10 12:15 PM


Originally Posted by pharasz (Post 10763182)
Do you have Osprey's where you live? We have a lot of those in Florida. Perhaps one dropped his catch. I once saw an Osprey carrying a fish so large it was struggling to gain the altitude it needed to reach its nest.

I've seen bald eagles dive on ospreys with fish to make them drop their catch. Sometimes the eagle will catch the fish in the air as it falls, and sometimes they won't even try. I think this is a territorial thing more than it's about who gets that one fish.

CFXMarauder 05-04-10 12:25 PM

Heard you folks had some big weather but damnn...

freefallkev 05-04-10 12:39 PM


Originally Posted by opie (Post 10763225)
I have no theory.. but catfish is good eatin. Mmmm Mmmm good

And I see you're from Georgia... I swear, sometimes being in the South is like being in a foreign country ;) Do you like grits too?

freefallkev 05-04-10 12:40 PM


Originally Posted by spock (Post 10763039)
It's probably a fish (still alive) that jerked it self out of back of the truck while the fisherman was going home to eat it.

I honestly hadn't thought of that... how anti-climactic

Urban Turkey 05-04-10 12:40 PM

Saw a whole rotisserie chicken in the middle of the road a while back. Still looked pretty fresh...

Artkansas 05-04-10 01:19 PM

It's possible that it just fell from the sky.

imi 05-04-10 04:58 PM


Originally Posted by Artkansas (Post 10764131)
It's possible that it just fell from the sky.

fish can't fly you idiot!





;)

... but that may be the reason it fell, I guess...

colleen c 05-04-10 05:36 PM


Originally Posted by imi (Post 10765077)
fish can't fly you idiot!





;)

... but that may be the reason it fell, I guess...

It was abducted by Alien for an experiment, but the Alien did not like Sushi and toss it out or beam the fish down. Regardless, something fishy is going on here.

mikewille 05-04-10 09:46 PM

something something something something, fish needs a bicycle, something something...

Dzrtrat 05-05-10 04:34 AM

Aliens?? Dogfish dropped it? It was evaporated into a rain cloud and fell to earth in a gentle shower? Got me.

MNBikeguy 05-05-10 09:44 AM

OMG!!
The Incredible Mr. Limpet is dead!

http://livinginstereo.com/wp-content....%20Limpet.jpg

Glynis27 05-05-10 10:52 AM

Fisherman ran out of room for beer in his cooler, so out goes the fish.

gitarzan 05-05-10 12:48 PM

Someone in a passing jet flushed his dead fish down the toilet. You're lucky it wasn't a turd.

wildergeek 05-06-10 01:20 PM


Originally Posted by freefallkev (Post 10763924)
... Do you like grits too?

You talking about the food or the people?

freefallkev 05-06-10 01:44 PM


Originally Posted by wildergeek (Post 10774135)
You talking about the food or the people?

I was not aware that grits were a people...


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