Further to my blog on JUSTICE FOR A BUFFALO , another news item caught my eye, in a Tamil newspaper today(2nd march 2009) about a mobile phone recovered from the stomach of a FISH in United Kingdom and the cell phone was found to be still working. I may recall the dialogue of Crazy Mohan in the Tamil Movie “ Michael Madhana Kamaraajan” in which he has punned on the word “mean” .You may ask what do you ‘mean’. I mean this is another blog regarding “mean”(fish).
As per the newstory a business man in United Kingdom by name Andrew Seattle lost his cell phone while he was taking bath in sea.He thought that the cell phone must have been drawn into the sea by the sea waves After a day or two when he went to a shop to buy a new mobile phone along with his fiancee,he received a call in her cell phone which flashed his cell number as the ‘caller’.The caller was a fisherman by name Clown kerley .He narrated how he found the cell phone inside the stomach of a fish he caught( and was trying to cook) and since it was working , he could scroll and spot the frequently called number and dialled the cell number of fiancee and informed that he will restore the cell phone to the owner. Mr.Andrew Seattle was very happy and surprised to note that the cell phone was recovered from the stomach of the fish and was in working condition. One thing we understand from the news is that it is better to call your fiancée frequently from your cell phone so that benefits will pour in from unknown quarters. If the frequently called number happened to be some other girl,other than his fiancée, you can guess what will be the plight of Mr.Andrews.He would have become a fish out of water. Anyway this did not happen . Further from this episode one is driven to assume that the digestive systems of buffalo or the fish is not a match for the sturdiness of the cell phone. If the fisher man had sent his “catch” to the fish market, when the cell phone rang ,so many persons would have “fished” into their bags / shirt/skirt or trouser pockets for their cell phones to check whether it was their cell phone ringing.
Why we have started hearing such news so frequently. There is some thing “fishy” about the whole episode of such reporting. It occurs to me that this is possibly due to a conspiracy hatched by the Cell phone manufactures/service providers in releasing such news to the media to gain publicity.The reporters also fall for such news stories without realising the publicity factor behind it. The reporters and readers are happy to report/read such news items as long as it is interesting to read, and different from other monotonous news items.
I recollect having read about a monkey in a tourist spot in Kerala .A monkey snatched a cell phone from a tourist climbed the top of a tree and refused to part with it despite cajoling with fruits and other eatables. An idea struck the owner of the cell phone.He remembered about having set VIBRATION MODE in his cell phone , and managed to give a ring to his own cell number and the startled monkey dropped the cell phone.The monkey got his fruits and the owner his cell phone, and both were happy.
I am not attempting to crusade the cause of the fish, which species has been created by God in 486 varieties A fish is any aquatic vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic(or cold blooded.). A search in Wikipidia, showed the following results for the digestive system of the fish:
“The advent of jaws allowed fish to eat a much wider variety of food, including plants and other organisms. In fish, food is ingested through the mouth and then broken down in the esophagus. When it enters the stomach, the food is further broken down and, in many fish, further processed in fingerlike pouches called pyloric caeca. The pyloric caeca secrete digestive enzymes and absorb nutrients from the digested food. Organs such as the liver and pancreas add enzymes and various digestive chemicals as the food moves through the digestive tract. The intestine completes the process of digestion and nutrient absorption.”
It is surprising to imagine that the cell phone has gone through such a digestive system and was found in working condition till the fisherman split it open and the cell phone was found unscathed. The fish which swallowed the mobile phone did not know the consequences of its actions.The fish treated it as food and thought it can digest that. Needless to say that the radiation from the mobile phone would have killed the fish,before the fisherman could lay his knife on it. We cannot guess what the fish would have felt, if at all it had any feelings. The fish had become a carrier and ‘means’ for communication.Other fishes would have avoided coming near it and therefore could have been outcast from its society.
Thinking about fish, two hollywood characters came to my mind. It is easy to refer to characters in Hollywood films to discuss about real life characters. I hope the poor fish is not named Nemo ,the hero in the Hollywood animated film ‘Finding Nemo’ , in which the father of Nemo, a clown fish searches for his son Nemo and finds that Nemo is capable of taking care of himself. Another character which came to my mind is the fish named Oscar in the Hollywood animated film “Shark Tales” in which, the tiny fish poses itself as ‘shark slayer’ and faces the consequences from the mobster sharks. Coincidently there was a ‘clown’ fish in the film Finding Nemo’ and ‘Clown’ Kerley is the name of the fisherman,who is supposed to have ‘found’ the cell phone inside the stomach of the fish. Rest is left to the imagination of the readers
Anyway my guess is that in the days to come,we are going to hear more news about swallowing of cell phones by various animals from the ‘cold blooded’ advertisers.
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