Germany’s psychic octopus Paul honored by Spanish town
By APThursday, July 22, 2010
Octopus Paul honored by Spanish town
BERLIN — Psychic octopus Paul may have retired but he’s still basking in the glory of his perfect World Cup predictions.
Paul’s German aquarium says the eight-legged oracle was declared an “honorary friend” of a Spanish town in a ceremony Thursday and presented with gifts including a bronze likeness of himself.
Paul correctly predicted the outcome of all seven of Germany’s games plus Spain’s victory over the Netherlands in the final.
Tanja Munzig, a spokeswoman for the Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen, says a delegation led by Carlos Montes, mayor of the northwestern Spanish town of O Carballino, presented the statue and a football shirt with the number eight.
O Carballino had previously sought — unsuccessfully — to borrow Paul to promote a seafood festival.
