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WARSAW (Reuters) - [font "arial"]Three Polish divers faced a police investigation Thursday for possible illegal fishing and animal abuse after a news photo showed them plying a freshly caught pike with champagne at an outdoor New Year's party. [/font]

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"They may have committed offences of poaching and maltreating a fish," said Maria Niedziolka of the National Fishing Authority, which notified police of the incident.



The picture in Nowa Trybuna daily showed three frogmen neck-deep in a lake, with one of them tipping a bottle of cheap Russian bubbly into the fish's open mouth.



One of the divers told news agency PAP that they had found the pike half-dead and wanted to "restore it to consciousness by treating it with champagne."



It was not clear whether the fish survived. Police said it would not be needed as evidence in the investigation. [/font]
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That is definitely a newer form of alcohol abuse. That's all we need is to have drunk fish running around laughing at our lures.
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[size 2]Or worse get stopped on boat and charged with open container while cleaning fish! ( think about it )[][sly][/size]
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If they new the circumstance, they would get you for an open fish.
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[size 2]What's in store for next year in Poland? Hunters holding down bears and pouring beer in them.[/size]

[size 2] Those wacky Polish people![crazy][sly][/size]
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You can never tell what they will have in mind. With the bear it could be different. they might like it an wait around for the beer bongs.
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[size 2]People do weird things, now what if that pike swam into someone! He could be charged with swimming under the influence[crazy][/size]

[size 2] Ok getting stupid now[sly][/size]
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How would they test him? Would they to a slime alcohol content check?? Or put him on the slimealizer?? Or would they just simply have him swim a straight line??
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[size 2]I would think the fin to nose test...[crazy][crazy][/size]
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