BoingBoing reader and Robotics Society of America president David Calkins points to this and quips, "Of course they're being arrested. Everyone knows that when poaching fish, you use white wine – not champagne."
Three Polish divers face a police probe for possible illegal fishing and abuse of animals after a newspaper photo showed them plying a freshly caught pike with champagne at an outdoor New Year's party.
"They may have committed offences of poaching and maltreating a fish," said Maria Niedziolka of the National Fishing Authority, which notified police about the incident. One of the frogmen, seeing in the New Year by diving in a lake near the city of Opole, told news agency PAP that they had found the pike half-dead and wanted to "restore it to consciousness by treating it with champagne".
