An 18-year-old tropical fish named Big Blue managed to survive a burglary at Animal Instincts Aquarium & Pet Center in Fall River on Wednesday as one of the burglars smashed a 180-gallon reef tank. Robert Schenck, who owns the store with his wife, Paula, said a group of men broke through the store’s front doors at 12:04 a.m. and stole the registers and computer system, as well as a display of reptile habitats. Schenck said one of the men was seen in a surveillance video using a pipe wrapped in a plastic bag to break the reef tank. Twenty-five tropical fish and 40 corals died, Schenck said. Big Blue, found in a small pool of water, is being dipped into a special solution to clean it and regenerate its natural slime coat, and the staff is hopeful it will survive. Schenck is offering a $750 reward for information leading to an arrest, and said anyone with information can call him at 774-201-1478.
Fall River
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Yeah right.... run many more idiocies like this one paragraph tale and PETA will be lobbying Deville de Patrick and Bobby the De for a major national lead in state legislation to ban fishing by human beings on grounds it is cruel and hurtful to fish caught on hooks or in nets. Of all the nonsensical blue fish tales. . . .