In the News

[hummingwolf]

This link thanks to Toxic Custard.

Apparently if I paid more attention to the news, I'd have known about this one already:

A fish heading for slaughter in a New York market shouted warnings about the end of the world before it was killed, two fish cutters have claimed.

Zalmen Rosen, from the Skver sect of Hasidic Jews, says co-worker Luis Nivelo, a Christian, was about to kill a carp to be made into gefilte fish in the city's New Square Fish Market in January when it began shouting in Hebrew.

"It said 'Tzaruch shemirah' and 'Hasof bah'," Mr Rosen later told the New York Times newspaper.

"[It] essentially means [in Hebrew] that everyone needs to account for themselves because the end is nigh."

But they killed the fish anyway. Remember next time you eat gefilte fish, you could be munching on a prophet!



(I'm not going to say the whole thing sounds fishy to me. Nope, not going to say it.)

Comments

[sophy.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, that's weird!!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I think you meant holy carp.

Yes, it's weird. But not much weirder than the rest of the news, is it?

Fish Heads

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

I think someone was hitting the bottle a bit before they reported for work.

And since it was the Christian dude who had the fish, why did it trot out the Hebrew to him? Why not try the language of Christians, English? (Heehehehehe)

Or Latin?

Or heck, reincarnation, why not Hindi?

Unwilly

Re: Fish Heads

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Why Hebrew? 'Cos it knew it was going to become gefilte fish, maybe. Besides, it's New York, you want to impress people--are you going to go with a language people nobody around there understands? The New Testament was written in Greek, but that would have inspired "It's all Greek to me" jokes, and the fish has enough problems getting taken seriously as it is.