The “psychic” giant Pacific octopus named Rabiot from Japan, which predicted the match results for Japan in the World Cup got chopped up as fresh seafood produce.
Rabiot quickly gained attention when the octopus accurately “predicted” the results of Japan’s matches in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. These were the win against Colombia, a tie with Senegal and a loss to Poland. Unfortunately for the octopus, who may have been named after French mid-fielder Adrien Rabiot, the 51-year-old fisherman Kimio Abe who caught it prioritized his business over making predictions, as reported by Mainichi Shimbun via SoraNews24.
Rabiot did its predictions while being immersed in a 6.6-foot-wide kids’ pool. This pool was divided into three sections: one for Japan (win), the opposing country (lose) and draw. Rabiot would then be placed in the middle and whichever section he crawls into would be the prediction.
Fans of Rabiot were saddened by the octopus’ passing, but accepted it as simply the way things are. Tweets that showed Rabiot’s ultimate fate started appearing around June 29. Japanese Twitter user @mizuhara_kai shared screen grabs of the time Rabiot predicted Japan’s win over Colombia. It also showed his final resting place.
Rabiot became fresh seafood for sale before Japan went up against Belgium on June 3. Sadly for the Japanese, Belgium won the game with a score of 3 to 2. Whether or not Rabiot could have predicted this is a question which will forever remain unanswered. However, perhaps Rabiot’s predictive powers could be inherited by ingesting the octopus’ flesh and predicting the overall outcome of the 2018 World Cup. Alfred Bayle /ra
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