Germany: Truck tips over, floods field with fish

By The Associated Press

Posted April 20, 2018 11:22 am.

Last Updated April 20, 2018 12:00 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

BERLIN – Oh sprat!

A tractor-trailer tried to take a turn and toppled over, tipping its entire load of fish onto a German farmer’s field.

Police says some 20 metric tons (22 tons) of sprat spilled out of the truck in Friday’s accident in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

German news agency dpa quoted a police spokesman saying: “The fish bar is open.”

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