Zombie fish is dead

I think I mentioned this story while I was writing about this year's Oscars, but let me recount it to the best of my memory...

I was away for a bit, and when I was away I was informed that the fishes that just happened to be in my room had all died. Apparently they hadn't quite removed the last of the fish from the tank, but they seemed to know what was going on, so I pretty much ignored everything.

Flash forward a few weeks later, when I am indeed watching the Oscar telecast, my mom asks me if I've fed the fish recently. Which I hadn't. Because the fish was dead.

Except that it wasn't, and so I had to keep feeding it. I fed it the same pellets that I fed it when it wasn't a zombie, which seemed to satisfy it. But still. It was dead. My brother told me it was. AND it survived weeks without me feeding it.

Anyway... I went away for a while, and I got back to a room that stunk up the entire house. A little bit of investigation revealed that the fish tank had become extremely dirty. This was yesterday. We didn't know what to do, and I think we all wanted someone else to deal with it... so I slept in a room with a massively odorous fish tank last night. It was great.

It got to the point where it was decided that everyone would pitch in... although I ended up doing all the gross parts. Anyway, I found the fish. It was dead and not moving. I didn't want to give it the proper burial of a flush down the toilet since it was a pretty big fish and didn't want to clog up anything (plus, if it was a zombie fish... I don't think there'd be a worse place for it to wreak havoc and go for human flesh). So I threw it away in the garbage outside. It got up to 103 degrees today. Yep...

So I guess it wasn't particularly the greatest zombie fish in the world, since I would imagine that a strong one could survive extremely dirty water (which might have been dirty for days... and no one noticed while I was gone). But then again... it died before and came back alive somehow.

So it could be wriggling its way out of the garbage can right now.

Crap.