Fishing Boy Lands Man-eating Piranha Uk

[i_ganjaman]

Came across this story,since when have they proven that piranhas are man-eaters...its news to me.

http/news.aol.co.uk/fishing-boy-lands-ma...017152609990001

 

[cjohnston]

Blimey, makes you wonder what really is in our rivers.

Lucky his fingers are still okay

 

[i_ganjaman]

His brother probably dumped them there.....lol

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

Man-eating? Hmmm... I'm not so sure red bellied Piranhas are man eating...

 

[qwikimpss]

Red Bellies have been known to eat people....but more in numbers of the hundreds!!! Not a single one.

There is a coal burning powerplant a few miles from my parent's house in New Hampshire and the plant uses river water to cool.....well.....whatever they cool so the water around it is unnaturally warm. This is a great spot to fish for Bass like I have done many times but with areas of the water staying in the high 70's-low 80's year round, it is also a haven for dumped fish. I have caught a piranah and seen Oscars and large Angelfish and even a school of rummy nose tetras (prolly about 30 of them).

 

[i_ganjaman]

Red Bellies have been known to eat people....but more in numbers of the hundreds!!! Not a single one.

There is a coal burning powerplant a few miles from my parent's house in New Hampshire and the plant uses river water to cool.....well.....whatever they cool so the water around it is unnaturally warm. This is a great spot to fish for Bass like I have done many times but with areas of the water staying in the high 70's-low 80's year round, it is also a haven for dumped fish. I have caught a piranah and seen Oscars and large Angelfish and even a school of rummy nose tetras (prolly about 30 of them).

I am positive that there has been no cases documented of piranha's attacking people or eating people(unless they were dead in the water in the first place..perhaps).Perhaps you have seen to many films...yes owners have had bites....but eating people come on...I would like to see the evidence for your claim.

 

[raptorrex]

Man-eating? Hmmm... I'm not so sure red bellied Piranhas are man eating...

lol there is no real evidence of any piranha type doing this. though so people have died after attacks, it seems most died of heart problems and the like, and their dead bodys were eaten by the fish there after. though attacks are on the increase in some areas. the victims are usually living after the fact!!!!


lol found a story from 2004 when a seagull dropped a Redbelly onto the deck of a boat on the thames!! lol. and the English complaine about the rain!

 

[i_ganjaman]

Just had a look on the net boboboy is correct.but i cant find any documentary evidence to say a shoal of paranhas have actually killed anyone, bitten yes.But i have seen films of killer piranhas out for human flesh...And the films were laughably crap B films....

 

[guppy_man]

only one way to settle this
na only kidding, i go fishing alot, and the most exotic fish ive ever caught, are koi carp, but piranhas, that would be a shock

 

[AMS]

Man-eating Piranha? I think not. There have been plenty of documented piranha attacks, not a single documented death though Sure, I have been bitten by my piranhas before, but to call them man-eaters, you are sadly mistaken.

PS- Repost

 

[three-fingers]

Red Bellies have been known to eat people....but more in numbers of the hundreds!!! Not a single one.

There is a coal burning powerplant a few miles from my parent's house in New Hampshire and the plant uses river water to cool.....well.....whatever they cool so the water around it is unnaturally warm. This is a great spot to fish for Bass like I have done many times but with areas of the water staying in the high 70's-low 80's year round, it is also a haven for dumped fish. I have caught a piranah and seen Oscars and large Angelfish and even a school of rummy nose tetras (prolly about 30 of them).

Lol that's cool, read somewhere that ages ago on a canal near me there was a glass making factory or something that kept the water nice and warm, but the canal has really crappy water so the only things you can catch in it are pike, sticklebacks, minnows, perch and....guppys . Needless to say when the factory shut down the guppys all died, but still i thought guppys in Scotland was pretty cool .

 

[CFC]

Had the same thing near me, the cement works at West Drayton used to pump warm water out into the canal and when a pet store that went bust decided to dump all their fish stocks in the canal a few of them managed to survive in this small warm water area, it was quite common for anglers to catch angel fish and the occasional tetra from that area.

Sadly the cement works is gone now and so are the tropical fish.

 

[i_ganjaman]

Weeell...if some of them have managed to bite and eat a chunk of human flesh then they're technically man-eaters. They don't necessarily have to kill people in order to eat parts of them

Ahh the joys of political correctness

there is always a smart ass........who got to put a spanner in the works...L.O.L

 

[Lynden]

That would be so awesome to catch an Angel on a fishing line

Well, when I was in Hawai'i, people were catching Butterflyfish, Tangs and Angelfish with their trusty old fishing poles

-Lynden

 

[raptorrex]

Weeell...if some of them have managed to bite and eat a chunk of human flesh then they're technically man-eaters. They don't necessarily have to kill people in order to eat parts of them

Ahh the joys of political correctness

oops wrong!! sorry the Oxford dictionary defines a Man-eater as an animal that can kill and eat a person!!!!

or a Woman who has a large appitite for sex with men. so i suppose if the fish was female!!! lol