Germany: Truck tips over, floods field with fish

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(Stefan Sauer/dpa via AP). Fish lay strewn across the roadside after a truck carrying tons of fish crashed near Liepen, northeastern Germany, Friday, April 20, 2018. (Stefan Sauer/dpa via AP). Fish lay strewn across the roadside after a truck carrying tons of fish crashed near Liepen, northeastern Germany, Friday, April 20, 2018.
(Stefan Sauer/dpa via AP). A truck with tons of fish crashed near Liepen, northeastern Germany, Friday, April 20, 2018. (Stefan Sauer/dpa via AP). A truck with tons of fish crashed near Liepen, northeastern Germany, Friday, April 20, 2018.
(Stefan Sauer/dpa via AP). A truck with tons of fish crashed near Liepen, northeastern Germany, Friday, April 20, 2018. (Stefan Sauer/dpa via AP). A truck with tons of fish crashed near Liepen, northeastern Germany, Friday, April 20, 2018.

BERLIN (AP) - 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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