Most interesting roadkill I've seen
05-04-10, 09:24 AM
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Most interesting roadkill I've seen
I saw this today on my ride to work:
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?
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?
05-04-10, 09:36 AM
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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.
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.
05-04-10, 09:57 AM
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I think it's just a very ugly ground squirrel...
05-04-10, 10:01 AM
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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.
05-04-10, 10:09 AM
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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.
05-04-10, 10:11 AM
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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.
Not as off as a fish all by himself in the road far off from water, but still a fishy commute.
05-04-10, 10:15 AM
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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!
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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.
05-04-10, 12:39 PM
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Do you like grits too?
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Saw a whole rotisserie chicken in the middle of the road a while back. Still looked pretty fresh...
05-04-10, 01:19 PM
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It's possible that it just fell from the sky.
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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.
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something something something something, fish needs a bicycle, something something...
05-05-10, 04:34 AM
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Aliens?? Dogfish dropped it? It was evaporated into a rain cloud and fell to earth in a gentle shower? Got me.
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Fisherman ran out of room for beer in his cooler, so out goes the fish.
05-05-10, 12:48 PM
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Someone in a passing jet flushed his dead fish down the toilet. You're lucky it wasn't a turd.
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