Australian town, 326 miles from river, hit by raining fish

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7345574/Australian-town-326-miles-from-river-hit-by-raining-fish.html


Lajamanu in the Northern Territory, population 669, has seen hundreds of small white fish fall from rain clouds with many still alive.

Weather experts in Australia believe the fish, spangled perch, were sucked up in a thunderstorm before being dumped over the tiny town.

Mark Kersemakers, the senior forecaster at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, said: "It could have scooped the fish up to 40,000 to 50,000 feet in the air.

"Once they get up into the system they are pretty much frozen. After some period they are released."

It is the third time in less than 30 years that Lajamanu has been bombarded by falling fish, according to Northern Territory News, after reports of the phenomenon in 1974 and 2004.

Joe Ashley, 55, from Jabiru an outback town in the Northern Territory, said: "Usually fish are in the water now they are falling out of the sky what if anything bigger falls out of the sky next?

"It could be crocodiles that would be real scary."

what a way to wake up one morning!

:wow:

But how do you throw them back?

as usual, deny everything; sensible or not. Occam's sharpest Razor wouldn't put a dent in their fundamentalist mindsets.

Fafrotsky = Fall from the sky

It's easy to see why ancient peoples used such events to claim God sent some plague (angel of death, for example), isn't it? This is how silly stories of myth and legend start.