A giant catfish that ate a dog and terrorised a German lake for years has washed up dead but the legend of "Kuno the Killer" lives on.
A gardener discovered the carcass of a 1.5-metre long catfish weighing 35 kilograms this week, a spokesman for the western city of Moenchengladbach said.
Kuno became a local celebrity in 2001 when he sprang from the waters of the Volksgarten park lake to swallow a Dachshund puppy whole.
He evaded repeated attempts to capture him.
"He was our Loch Ness monster," Uwe Heil said, member of "Kuno's Friends", a local rock band named after the fish.
Several fishermen identified the carcass as Kuno, but doubts linger.
"That's not the Kuno we know," Leon Cornelius said, another member of "Kuno's Friends".
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s910645.htm
A gardener discovered the carcass of a 1.5-metre long catfish weighing 35 kilograms this week, a spokesman for the western city of Moenchengladbach said.
Kuno became a local celebrity in 2001 when he sprang from the waters of the Volksgarten park lake to swallow a Dachshund puppy whole.
He evaded repeated attempts to capture him.
"He was our Loch Ness monster," Uwe Heil said, member of "Kuno's Friends", a local rock band named after the fish.
Several fishermen identified the carcass as Kuno, but doubts linger.
"That's not the Kuno we know," Leon Cornelius said, another member of "Kuno's Friends".
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s910645.htm