Local : "Thank God It Didn't Rain Crocodiles!"
grab from photo by Christine Balmer.
Last Thursday and Friday afternoon, residents of a Northern Territory town saw hundreds of fish fall from the sky. Locals claim the fish were still alive when they hit the ground.
On both days, the rain of fish began around 6pm.
'Newsbreaker' Christine Balmer told the Northern Territory News :
"Locals were picking them up off the footy oval and on the ground everywhere.
"I haven't lost my marbles. Thank god it didn't rain crocodiles."
I would go see that movie. As long as the rain of crocodiles fell over a city.
Lajamanu is the town where the fish fell from the sky. It sits on the edge of a desert, hundreds of kilometres from lakes, or the coast.
Even more bizarrely, rains of fish fell on Lajamanu in 2004, and in 1974.
A weather forecaster told The Northern Territory News that a tornado could have been responsible, but there were none in the area on the days the rain of fish occurred.
This story is now being picked up by the Drudge Report, Reddit, Digg, thousands of bloggers and the news wires. The Northern Territory News has found its clickbait tale of the year.And it's a good, more accurate choice by the NTN to use the term 'Newsbreaker' for what other media call a 'Citizen Journalist'.
In other Northern Territory News news, a monkey disguised as a normal everyday cat is running across roads. Points for the headline, though : 'Chimp My Ride.'
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