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"It Was Fifteen Feet Long If It Was Three. Beady Little Eyes, All Lit Up Like A Road Sign...With Big, Sharp Teeth The Size Of A Barracuda's"

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▫ Late Breaking News ▫

Local Tourist Chased From Pool In 'Electrifying' Experience

Bill Blixton of Beloxi, Mississippi was chased from a local Florida motel swimming pool late last night by an electric eel.

When asked about the incident, Mr. Blixton gestured wildly, going on in windy detail in an exceedingly hoarse voice, “I don't know HOW that thing got into the pool. But it was REAL, I tell ya! I'm on vacation. With the wife. Plumbing supplies."

"You don't say."

Mr. Blixton didn't even break stride, "We were out for a late-night swim. I jumped in at the shallow end, and slowly paddled toward the deeper parts of the pool. Just enjoying myself with a lazy back stroke in the balmy night air. The misses was up on the deck in a chaise lounge, having a smoke, waiting to get in, and noticed the thing before I did. She shouted, look out, Bill...there's a sea creature in the pool! Of course, I didn't believe her at first. Thought she was joking. She's funny that way.

Then things got dicey. Suddenly, a long, dark, snake-like form swam toward me from the area of the concrete steps, as I passed the 'Depth 4 Feet' sign, stenciled on the pool edge. The thing was big, thick as my forearm. Nasty...looking like it was all business. I kicked hard, and swam faster and faster toward the ladder at the other end, and it kept following me, going faster and faster along with my strokes.

I tried some old Navy battleship maneuvers. Large, looping Schmidt Circles, hoping to throw it off my trail. But the darn thing knew every trick in the book, and just followed along. All the while blinking it's odd, electric-yellow lights as it went. The body flashed in short little pulses from it's long, snaky sides. Looked like some kinda Morse-code to me. On-Off-On-Off-On-Off-On-Off. Like it was mocking my strokes. It was downright MADDENING!

It made one last long, lazy loop, then veered straight for me. I swam as fast as I could toward the edge, and got up the ladder, just in time. The missus kept hollering "hurry Bill, hurry." And you bet I DID!"

“WOW! Did it bite you?”

Mr. Blixton finally took a much-needed breath. “No, but it gave me quite a jolt!”

“It electrocuted you?"

“NO, just scared the HOOEY outta me."

“Oh."

“I ask ya, what's something like that doing in a chlorinated pool in Southwest Florida ANYWAY? And on MY vacation!!?”

“Who knows, maybe some kids thought it would be fun to toss it into the pool."

“Where would they even GET an eel? And whose watching these kids today anyway!?”

“I have no idea Bill, but seems like it was quite a SHOCKING EXPERIENCE for you. Ha Haa! Well, that's all for now. This is Jim Vandersleet, reporting to you live from the edge of the pool at the El Sirocco Motor-Coach Motel. Remember folks, You Saw It Here First, on KRPPNWZ News, Dade County, Florida."

▫ Finto ▫

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PHOTO CREDIT: Taken with Poolside Please Don't Soil Our Pool-Water Project video surveillance camera at The El Sirocco Motel, on Ocean View Boulevard, Port Gamble, Florida.

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_{-Science Editors Note-
The solid, darker double-lines on the right side of photo are a reflections from the double safety-stripes of Mr. Blixton's mauve, blue and orange, Ocean Pacific, Night-Surfer II swimsuit, reflecting the underwater pool lights back to the surveillance camera. The electric eel's blinking light pattern is seen in photo left.
(Swimsuit available @ at Barnacle Bill's Surfside Shop, on Big Pine Key Road. Only $29..95, sales tax excluded)}

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-_{-Editors Note-
Jim Vandersleet was a two year student of the Journalistic Department Of Reportage, in the Schteinn School of the Sophisticated Sciences.}

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_{Posted: 11/27/2018 @ 10:56}

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Excerpts From Late-Night Conversations With A Mechanical Cat

Fact Number 101

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