Call it the attack of the swordfish swordsman. Two Australian men, ages 40 and 50, were drinking in the younger man’s house in the town of Colac, Victoria. Apparently, there was some sort of disagreement, because the older one left at about 1:30 in the morning, only to return with a swordfish skeleton. The drunk used the swordfish skeleton as a weapon, attacking the other with its bill.
It’s not the first time an animal has been used as a weapon, as the dead hedgehog throwing star incident would attest to, but this might be the first time a swordfish has been used like a sword. Well, in real life anyway; it happens all the time in cartoons. Unfortunately, the swordfish sword wasn’t a very good weapon, as the attacking 50-year-old was no match for the unarmed 40-year-old occupant.
“The male occupant overpowered him,” Detective Mick Palmer said of the incident. “They were known to each other, had had too much to drink and were old enough to know better.”
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