Police reel in Louisiana man captured swimming in Bass Pro fish tank - WBRZ
Police reel in Louisiana man captured swimming in Bass Pro fish tank - WBRZ |
| Police reel in Louisiana man captured swimming in Bass Pro fish tank - WBRZ Posted: 30 Jun 2020 04:33 AM PDT  BOSSIER CITY — Police in Louisiana were able to reel in a man captured on video swimming through a fish tank at a sporting goods store. Kevin Wise, 26, told reporters that he plunged into the indoor aquarium at a Bass Pro Shop in Bossier City last week to follow through on a promise he made to followers on the social media platform TikTok. "I said that if I got 2,000 likes I would jump in the tank," Wise said. "I got way more than that and didn't want to be a liar." A video captured by shopper Treasure McGraw showed Wise swimming through the tank before climbing out and running from the store with wet clothes. "We heard a big splash and I thought it was one of the fish," McGraw told the news outlet. "My fiancé was like 'somebody is in the tank' and we saw the guy swimming." Bass Pro Shops filed a complaint with the Bossier City Police Department Friday, saying it cost them money to empty out the 13,000 gallon aquarium and clean it after Wise's swim. Wise was charged with simple criminal damage to property and released with a citation to appear in court, police said. He told reporters he planned on continuing to make videos for his followers, but cautioned others against doing similar "spur of the moment" pranks. |
| 5-meter-long stuffed megamouth shark on display at central Japan aquarium - The Mainichi Posted: 25 Jul 2020 07:00 PM PDT  NUMAZU, Shizuoka -- An about-5-meter-long stuffed megamouth shark is now on display at the Numazu Deep Sea Aquarium in this central Japan city, facing the country's deepest bay at which the big fish washed ashore. The display is Shizuoka Prefecture's second of the mysterious deep-sea shark, following the museum operated by Tokai University's School of Marine Science and Technology, in Shizuoka's Shimizu Ward. The Numazu megamouth was found beached in the city on the 2,500-meter deep Suruga Bay by a surfer on Jan. 28, 2019. The rare find was reported to the aquarium, and the taxidermic wonder is now the facility's largest exhibit. The shark is characterized by its enormous mouth, hence its name. They have sharp teeth but eat mainly plankton, and it remains a mystery what the teeth are for. Megamouths swallow plankton along with huge volumes of water, and then filter their food out with their gills, according to the aquarium. Hirotaka Shiozaki, 44, the aquarium's display and breeding manager, told the Mainichi Shimbun, "It's an important exhibit with regard to research into the unfamiliar world of the deep sea, as (megamouth sharks') behavior, such as breeding, remain unclarified. We hope people will be fascinated with the deep sea of Suruga Bay." (Japanese original by Hiroshi Ishikawa, Numazu Bureau) |
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