Well, dead or not, the fact that an octopus was in the Ohio River is a big deal. Octopi (?) are salt water dwellers. The Ohio River is fresh water. Chances are, the octopus would have come up the Mississippi River from New Orleans all the way to the southwest edge of Kentucky (approx. 954 miles), then entered the Ohio River and gone to who knows where...Louisville (another 200+ miles) or a more northeastern city. It could have died in Pittsburg and floated back down stream when this guy caught it. But anyway, the big deal isn't that he caught a dead octopus, it's that he caught it in the Ohio River.
