A Staffordshire, England woman's garden drain was clogged with what may be a small dead octopus. Vicky Springitt thought it was an old banana skin until her 9-year-old son Isaac pulled it out with a pair of tongs. Nobody seems to know where the creature came from. From The Sentinel:
Vicky added: "Isaac wasn't fazed by it at all and has gone back to St Wulstan's Primary School telling everyone he wants to bring it in…"
Pictures of the creature have puzzled experts at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. Information officer Douglas Herdson said: "We've had people looking at the photos and there are certain things that look right about the body and certain things that don't.
"It is very difficult to say for certain whether this is an octopus."
He said it was feasible that an octopus owner had flushed a dead specimen down the drain – they cannot last more than 20 minutes in freshwater.
He added: "Some people don't realise it is illegal to release exotic creatures into the wild in Britain."
Link (via The Anomalist)
