http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/catchfish.asp#photo
A guy who lives at Lake Conroe
(50 miles north of Houston ) saw a ball bouncing
around kind of strangely in the lake and
went to investigate.
It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had
obviously tried to swallow a basketball
which became stuck in its mouth!!
The fish was totally exhausted from trying
to dive, but unable to because the ball would
always bring him back up to the surface.
The guy tried numerous times to get the ball out,
but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife
cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry catfish.
You probably wouldn't have believed this,
if you hadn't seen the following pictures...
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