The Fish That Saved Pittsburg(h)?



Photos from Pam and Bill Driver, Wichita, KS residents who found this catfish swimming around with a basketball in its mouth. They say it kept trying to dive below the water’s surface but the ball kept bringing it back up. They cut the ball with a knife and pulled it out. The fish was fine, at least as far as they could tell.
Sent from Chad and found on JeffBridges.com. And, yes, as far as I can tell, it really is that Jeff Bridges. The site is fantastic, I highly recommend checking it all out. It seems very personal, it’s kind of neat to see that this character we know as “Jeff Bridges” is an actual guy and this is the stuff he’s into. There’s a lot of crummy stuff on the internets (NewsMax, e.g.), but this is one of the things that makes it really cool.
And I just hope that this fish/basketball thing isn’t some bizarre omen spelling doom for my Wichita State Shockers this year. Yikes!
Update: Not an omen. I looked this up on Snopes and it turns out that the story is from 2004 (it is true, though, so no worries there). If I remember, WSU has a couple of pretty good years right around then, so maybe it was some kind of good omen. If the omen gods even do good omens anymore.


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