Norwegian fisherman finds adult toy in fish's stomach

A fisherman in Norway made a surprising (and quite funny) find the other day. Not something you would normally find in a cod's stomach.

Bjørn Frilund, 64, was in the process of gutting a large cod that he had caught when he noticed a big lump in its stomach. On cutting into the fish he at first found two, half-digested herrings. No problem there. But on continuing, he then he pulled out a large, bright orange vibrator.

Frilund has been fishing in the waters surrounding his home town of Eidsbygda in western Norway, for a long time, but this is apparently the first time he has come across a fish that has swallowed an adult toy.

"I was astonished," he told The Local. "It was totally unexpected. I had never seen anything like this before."

According to Frilund, the fish probably mistook the vibrator for a cephalopod, which apparently is a type of octopus.

"Fish eat all kinds of different things," he said. "And the dildo looks like what the fish eat. We have a kind of multicolored octopus in Norway, maybe the cod thought this was one of these and ate it."

However he said that it was still amazing that the fish found the darn thing. He is of the opinion that the vibrator, which still had a little motor on the end of it, had been thrown from a boat perhaps by "a frustrated woman on a cruise" in the Barents Sea.

"The chances of winning the lottery are probably greater," he said.

So there you go. Always something new happening in Norway!