OCTO-TROUBLE-MAKER

AN OCTOPUS TURNED A WATER-CONTROL VALVE IN ITS TANK AND FLOODED THE ENTIRE AQUARIUM:

On Tuesday, workers at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium in California showed up at work to find the entire facility flooded with three inches of saltwater. At first, aquarium workers thought vandals had broken in overnight and caused the damage . . . until they realized what really happened . . .

Apparently, a female octopus had somehow pried loose a water-control valve that was inside her tank . . . which caused the tank to overfill and dump 200 gallons of saltwater onto the aquarium floor.

According to an aquarium official, the octopus, "found something loose and just pulled on it. They are very smart creatures." (Los Angeles Times / Yahoo News)

(--Check out a picture of the troublemaking octopus . . .)