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A gas station leaseholder in Grevenbroich on the Lower Rhine has made an extraordinary find: she found goldfish in the bucket of cleaning water.
It is not known who released the animals there.
"At first I only saw dirt floating in the bucket and that's why I wanted to change the water," said the gas station tenant: "When I got my hand in the bucket, I was pretty shocked because the fish were a bit bigger. ' Four goldfish were frolicking in her bucket.
As it turned out later, the "dirt" was fish food that the stranger had poured into it.
The Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung and the Bild had first reported on the case.
Head of the public order office: "I've never experienced anything like this"
She started phoning, said the gas station tenant.
Later, the head of the Grevenbroich regulatory office personally picked up the fish and bucket.
"I've never experienced anything like this," said Thomas Lemke.
Because the local animal shelter could not take the fish, Lemke gave them to a local ornamental fish expert.
Meanwhile, the four cavorted in the garden pond of his father-in-law in Kaarst near Neuss.
She was very happy that the fish were so well accommodated, said the gas station tenant.
Meanwhile, she has spent hours studying her security camera footage to see who left her the animals.
»But unfortunately the dustbin is exactly between the bucket and the camera.
I can't tell who put something in the bucket and who put something in the bin."
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