Take Out Or Delivery?

This is absolutely hysterical. Chinese officials spent hours stocking the Songhua river with 13 truckloads of carp in an effort to clean the river up. Which is a good thing. But villagers living downstream from the restocking effort regarded the entire thing as a delivery and promptly caught the carp.

More than 3,000 workers in northeastern China spent two hours dumping fish worth 70,000 yuan (9,100 dollars) into the Songhua river earlier this week in an effort to improve its ecology, the Xinhua news agency said.

But minutes after the operation was completed, thousands of residents from nearby Jinlin city swarmed to the riverbank with nets and other fishing equipment to scoop up the easy catch.

Officials patrolling the river attempted to confiscate some of the tackle, but no arrests were made, the report added.

Next up: chips! And tartar sauce.