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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Passengers Horrified As Train Flooded With Live Eels

Pic shows: The eels in the Shanghai metro. Dozens of eels surprised commuters in a crowded metro carriage this week after a vendor on his way to the market tipped over a bucket filled with live specimens. There was no panic, but commuters on Shanghai’s Line 1 metro still did their best to avoid the slippery customers which were on their way to a seafood market in the eastern Chinese metropolis. Although living in water, eels have the ability to breathe out of water in order to cross land and reach new water sources. Eye-witness reports said the live eels were tipped over soon after the train left the station. The eels then began slithering across the entire train carriage, providing yet another unique sight for Shanghai metro commuters. Only a day earlier the metro was in the news over a crossdressing man who looked like he had an eel in his trousers after travelling in skin tight almost see through leggings. He had shocked commuters with the outfit attracting many to make jokes about eels on the underground. The owner of the eels that escaped a day later managed to gather them back into the bucket, apologising as he did so. However he was unable to do anything about the bed smelling water that was left behind after he climbed off the carriage, that had to be wiped away by metro cleaning staff. (ends)

There was panic on the metro when a bucket full of live eels overturned
in a packed subway train in Shanghai, China

There was panic on the metro when a bucket full of live eels overturned in a packed subway train in Shanghai, China.

According to a local media, a seafoof trader with two buckets of live eels was travelling on the metro when the jolt of the train knocked the bucket of eels over, causing dozens of the animals to slither through the carriage.

After awhile an apologetic trader managed to gather the creatures wriggling over the feet of horrified commuters back into the buckets and metro cleaning staff were called to clean the stinking carriage.

Freshwater eels and marine eels are commonly used in Chinese cuisine; eelsare prepared in many different ways, but they are rather expensive. Eel blood is toxic to humans and other mammals, but both cooking and the digestive process destroy the toxic protein.