Killer eel strikes again

[emad]

By Brendan Roberts
July 22, 2005
From:
A GIANT killer eel has roused from the murky waters of the Yarra to claim its second victim.

Eddie the giant eel, named after its first victim - a Jack Russell dog - reportedly claimed the life of an unsuspecting goose on Wednesday night.

It seems the slippery sea monster's appetite has outgrown the waters of Tommy Finn's trout farm and it has moved upstream into the Yarra River in Warburton to stalk its prey.

Trout farm manager Gary Wales said a man, looking as white as a ghost, entered the trout farm late Wednesday night, claiming the serpent had snatched a goose he had been feeding.


"He was fishing on the Yarra in Warburton and feeding bread to the geese and apparently the water swirled around and the goose disappeared - Eddie the eel just swallowed him up," Mr Wales said.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16011976-13762,00.html

[oneighty]

1. Not an eel at all

It is one of Satan's spawn, the dreaded 'Water Horse' once common in all fresh water lakes of the northern hemisphere.

My poor old uncle once caught one in Lake Seneca. Poor old man cut the evil beast monster loose and never ever went near the water again. He drank whiskey the rest of his life too.

Beware the 'Water Horse'.

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[Throckmorton]

2. Yes, the dreaded Water Horse

or its latin name, Hippopotamus.

[oneighty]

3. Maybe so.

Indeed. There was a book written some years ago concerning Lochness and the Devil's own creature lurking therein and about the other 'Water Horses' in other Scotland lakes rivers and ponds. Other than being pure water-horse-shit it was fun reading.

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