Giant catfish falls out of sky and shatters woman's windshield

A bird dropped a massive catfish on to a North Carolina woman's car, shattering her windshield.

Rhesa Walston told WCIV that she was driving home in Beaufort, North Carolina, on December 18 when she saw a bird carrying a catfish right in front of her.

"It was one of those slow-motion moments in life," she told WCIV. "I saw the fish and I saw him drop it."

She didn't have time to safely swerve out of the way, so the catfish landed right on the passenger side of her car's windshield.

Walston was able to pull over safely, and made sure her daughter was OK. Then she evaluated the scene.

"There was glass all over my front seat... glass on my lap," Walston told WCIV. " just remember jumping out of my car and thinking I have got to go find the fish because it bounced when it hit my car, 'cause I am thinking, 'Who is going to believe me?'"

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Musing Bassist said:

And I used to think getting bird poop on my car was annoying...

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ChristineM said:

Beat me to it.

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Stevicus said:

A giant catfish fell out of the sky and shattered a woman's windshield

I'd like to see the bird that was carrying it. Must have been a big bird. I've heard of swallows carrying coconuts, but this is a whole different kettle of fish.

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Stevicus said:

A giant catfish fell out of the sky and shattered a woman's windshield

I'd like to see the bird that was carrying it. Must have been a big bird. I've heard of swallows carrying coconuts, but this is a whole different kettle of fish.

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Stevicus said:

I guess these catfish can get pretty big. I did a bit of browsing through the wiki article on catfish (Catfish - Wikipedia), and it said that the largest catfish ever caught weighed 646 lbs.

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Meerkat said:

The seagulls here pinch fish and chips from the tourists. They are too lazy to actually catch a fish, I have even seen them pinching fish from a cormorant.

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exchemist said:

Time to regale you with another of my anecdotes of Middle East life.

One time when I took in my Mitsubishi jeep for servicing, there was a car there with the whole front of the roof and windscreen smashed in, a bent gear lever and a certain amount of dark staining on the upholstery. I asked the general manager, a fellow Brit, what had happened. He told me: "Oh, it was the Eid festival. This car was parked at the foot of block of flats and one local family decided to kill a goat for Eid...on the roof. They went after it with a big knife, and the bloody thing didn't like the look of that, jumped off - and went straight through the windscreen of this car parked beneath."

Eid had been three weeks earlier: the car was still there because apparently the (British) insurance company had refused to believe this story and were refusing to pay up!

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sun rise said:

My brain has been warped, perhaps permanently, by "Good Omens": I immediately thought of looking to see if the event was anywhere near Tadfield and if Tadfield was in fact a real town in England.

It's not according to the Internet but maybe it really is but just hidden from sight.

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Meerkat said:

Tadfield was captured by aliens recently, but it was during an election and so not mentioned.
I am holding the line, but things are looking bad. Bah humbug, you alien swine! Hande hoche! We shall vanquish you with English gentlemen and sheer humbuggery!

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