Usually, when Daniel DeCapua gets photos late at night from a tenant, “it’s never anything cool, like a sunset or amazing dinner.”
“It’s usually water shooting out of a pipe,” he said.
And so it was just after 9 p.m. Thursday when he got one of the most unusual photos from a tenant ever: 10 boxes of live tilapia that had been mistakenly delivered to her front porch.
“What was going through the delivery driver’s mind we will never know,” DeCapua said.
The tenant, DeCapua said, was worried about flies, and she had no idea how that many live fish ended up on the porch of the 900-square-foot house with no basement in a Brighton Township neighborhood that she was renting from him.
The fish should have been delivered to a Craig Kern in Brighton.
To solve this “fishcaper,” DeCapua turned to the Howell MI Happenings group on Facebook.
It didn’t take long to both solve the mystery, and to disappoint dozens of people, tartar sauce in hand, who had anticipated a possible fish fry. Craig Kern’s wife, Whitney Kern, laid claim to the fish, explaining in a comment on DeCapua’s post that the tilapia were to be used to control algae in the couple’s 2-acre pond.
“It’s better than dumping a ton of chemicals in each year,” she said.
The United States Golf Association agrees. Apparently, in addition to tilapia being an environmentally friendly choice for algae control, it’s also easier on the pocketbook.
