Fish falling from the sky

One day a fisherman from Cape Town named, Collin Peterson had a really bright idea. While sitting in his boat he realised that the amount of snoek that he and his crew catch on a daily basis is really big. He then also realised that he has the great opportunity of making this fishing business grow by far. Collin decides to start importing snoek to America. He knew that this would definitely work because this unique fish is not found in the States.


He presented his idea to three other fisherman and the four of them decided to form a partnership. The importing idea had kicked off and they managed to get five cold storage aeroplanes to fly over to the States twice a week to deliver the stock. Business had officially started and was going really well. The fisherman were happy and have officially become successful business men.

Thursday, 11 March, 2010 had arrived and the snoek business has been running smoothly for a year. It was 3am and the fisherman managed to get all five aeroplanes loaded. This time there was snoek galore and they had to really stuff the aeroplanes with the fish. The first three aeroplanes had left two hours after each other. The second last plane left four hours after the third one. Then finally the last one (which was the biggest, most stuffed one that contained two thousand fish) got ready to take off. All the checks were done in a hurry because the plane had to leave before the next flight was scheduled to leave. The aeroplane started taking off from the Cape Town International Airport and everything seemed fine. But just as the plane left the airport and started flying over one of the Cape Town communities, the pilot realised that something wasn’t right! The main latch was not closed properly and came loose. All of a sudden the snoek started escaping, and started falling all over. The people in the community did not know what was hitting them. Priscilla Peters who had been living in this community for more than 20 years has never experienced such a crazy thing. She shouted, “Oh my word! It’s raining fish”. People started coming out of their houses and catching the fish. They were so pleased by this happening. “Free fish everyone”, one of the commuters shouted.

The four fisherman had learned about the happening not too long after it took place. And they had definitely learnt their lesson, DO NOT OVERLOAD THE PLANES! Well at least we know what those fish catching commuters had for supper that evening…