It’s Raining Fish In Australia’s Northern Territory

Something fishy going on here in this Northern Territory town:

WHILE the Top End and Central Australia have been battered by torrential rains, a Territory town has had fish falling from the sky.

The freak phenomena happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and Friday afternoon about 6pm at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine.

NEWSBREAKER Christine Balmer, who took these photos of the fish on the ground and in a bucket, had to pinch herself when she was told “hundreds and hundreds” of small white fish had fallen from the sky.

“It rained fish in Lajamanu on Thursday and Friday night,” she said, “They fell from the sky everywhere.

“Locals were picking them up off the footy oval and on the ground everywhere.

“These fish were alive when they hit the ground.”

Mrs Balmer, the aged care co-ordinator at the Lajamanu Aged Care Centre, said her family interstate thought she had lost the plot when she told them about the event.

“I haven’t lost my marbles,” she said, reassuring herself. “Thank god it didn’t rain crocodiles.”  [NT News]

Read the rest at the link, but goofy and weird stuff like this always seems to happen in the Northern Territory.  Apparently locals are speculating that a tornado may have blown the fish from lakes hundreds of kilometers away from the town.  I wonder if someone flying overhead with an airplane wasn’t just playing a massive prank on the town?