Fish falls from sky onto man’s head while swimming

A man who was relaxing in a spa pool has been smacked in the face by a fish which fell out of the sky.

Russell Hogg felt the flounder slap him in the face while sitting in a spa pool at Parnell Baths in Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday.

Mr Hogg told Radio New Zealand he thought someone had ‘done a big belly flop’ before watching the large flounder sink to the bottom of the pool.

He reached in and grabbed the dead fish out of the water.

‘I thought, what the f**k?’ Mr Hogg said.

He was sharing the spa pool with three women at the time of the interruption from above, who also got a fright from the fish’s unexpected arrival.

Mr Hogg was visiting the pools with his wife and three children, and offered them the fish to hold. He said they decided not to as it ‘stank too much’.

He believed a large bird dropped the fish onto his head from high in the sky.

‘It landed with a great force from quite high up and no-one’s got a half-dead flounder in their hand when they go to Parnell Baths,’ he told the New Zealand Herald.

He estimated the fish weighed about 2kg.

‘I’m pretty accident-prone as it is. I think maybe I should buy a lottery ticket tonight.

‘It’s not something that happens every day is it?’ 

He believed a large bird dropped the fish onto his head from high in the sky

Mr Hogg – originally from Portsmouth, England – said a crowd gathered around him at the pools as he emerged clutching the large flounder.

After snapping a selfie with the fish, he fed it to some seagulls.

Parnell Baths operator Community Leisure Management told Newshub they are investigating the incident and will be reviewing CCTV footage.