Thread: Silly boy and an eel

When I was a young fella ( about 8rs old) many many years ago the local Lions club had a Fair down next to the creek in Henderson. One of the events was an eel fishing competition.......About an hour after the competition started there was much screaming and kerfuffle and an ambulance arrived to take one of the kids away. He had caught a large eel and after his father had unhooked it and thrown it up the bank, the kid was playing with it. The eel latched on to the kids forefinger then had spun around and completely stripped all the flesh down to the second joint leaving just bare bone...... They ended up having to amputate the whole finger.
That kid never went into or near water from memory until I lost contact with him when I started high school. The rest of us kids never swam in that part of the creek again when we were growing up.

Great video btw..