Showing posts with label World Cup soccer Octopus receives death threats?. Show all posts
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Friday, July 16, 2010

World Cup soccer Octopus receives death threats?

He was once the most popular sea-creature in Germany. But since that nation's loss yesterday, a psychic octopus has received death threats from angry soccer fans. Paul, or as he's referred to in Germany, Das Krakenorakel, has incurred the wrath of a nation by correctly predicting that Spain would defeat Germany in the World Cup semi-final. Octopus handler Daniel Fey reports that: "People send us recipes in threats." And German newspapers report angry crowds converging in Berlin after the game, chanting anti-octopus songs. How they came to know the lyrics to any anti-octopus songs is not immediately clear. But, according to a spokeswoman for Sea Life Aquariums, Paul's h . . .

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