Divers Probed for Giving Fish Champagne

[LadyFish]

WARSAW (Reuters) - Three Polish divers faced a police investigation Thursday for possible illegal fishing and animal abuse after a news photo showed them plying a freshly caught pike with champagne at an outdoor New Year's party.<br />

<br />"They may have committed offences of poaching and maltreating a fish," said Maria Niedziolka of the National Fishing Authority, which notified police of the incident.<br /><br />The picture in Nowa Trybuna daily showed three frogmen neck-deep in a lake, with one of them tipping a bottle of cheap Russian bubbly into the fish's open mouth.<br /><br />One of the divers told news agency PAP that they had found the pike half-dead and wanted to "restore it to consciousness by treating it with champagne."<br /><br />It was not clear whether the fish survived. Police said it would not be needed as evidence in the investigation.<br /><br />I wonder if they deep fried the evidence.

 

[KennyKenCan]

Re: Divers Probed for Giving Fish Champagne

WHAT, the Librals invaded Poland!!<br /><br />When did that happen???<br /><br />The world is definitly going to pot!

 

[aspeck]

Re: Divers Probed for Giving Fish Champagne

hummm... batter dipped, deep fried, baked, grilled, broiled, ... and now ... "toasted" fish. The choices just keep coming!

 

[one more cast]

Re: Divers Probed for Giving Fish Champagne

They may have committed offences of poaching and maltreating a fish,"

wow, now it is against the law to poach fish. What next,illegal frying?

 

[lund17]

Re: Divers Probed for Giving Fish Champagne

There's an old Polish saying that for fish to be good it has to swim three times. Once in water, once in wine, once tin butter. These police types must be young'ins that don't know better.