Saturday Star

Police land ‘big fish’ in sports store tank

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POLICE in Louisiana in the US were able to reel in a man captured on video swimming through a fish tank at a sporting goods store.

Kevin Wise, 26, told KSLA-TV that he plunged into the indoor aquarium at a Bass Pro Shop in Bossier City last week to follow through on a promise he made to followers on the social media platform Tiktok.

“I said that if I got 2 000 likes I would jump in the tank,” Wise said.

“I got way more than that and didn’t want to be a liar.”

A video by shopper Treasure Mcgraw showed Wise swimming through the tank, climbing out and fleeing the store in wet clothes.

“We heard a big splash and I thought it was one of the fish,” Mcgraw told the news outlet. “My fiancé was like ‘somebody is in the tank’ and we saw the guy swimming.”

Bass Pro Shops filed a complaint with the Bossier City police, saying it cost them money to empty out the 50 000-litre aquarium and clean it. He was charged and freed. |

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