Althouse: 60 swimmers injured in a mass piranha attack.

December 26, 2013

60 swimmers injured in a mass piranha attack.

In Argentina.

19 comments:

Gahrie said...: I blame global warming.

or Bush.; 12/26/13, 4:32 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: That's actually kind of cool in a Sharknado sort of way.; 12/26/13, 4:35 PM
garage mahal said...: I got bit by a piranha once. In a fish tank. It left a perfect circle on the tip of my finger and I could not get it to stop bleeding for a long time afterward.; 12/26/13, 4:36 PM
Sorun said...: Someone's comment at DM: "Let's cool off in the Parana River and then go surfing in Tiger Shark Bay!"; 12/26/13, 4:38 PM
Deirdre Mundy said...: So.... how does this relate to Pope Francis's economic theories?; 12/26/13, 4:39 PM
Sorun said...: I used to visit a lake cabin Up Nort where the sunfish would nip at our nipples. Never went skinny dipping there.; 12/26/13, 4:43 PM
Ipso Fatso said...: I blame the Koch Brothers. Isn't Michelle Obama just gorgeous?; 12/26/13, 4:52 PM
The Godfather said...: This is actually a lot less bad than what we see in the movies, where the piranha strip the flesh from the body in a few seconds. It's interesting that the locals were ready to keep on swimming. Wasn't there a scene in Jaws . . . .; 12/26/13, 5:08 PM
D. B. Light said...: Life imitates art.; 12/26/13, 5:13 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: I'm tired of you ichthyophobic people picking on these fish, who were just minding their own business when these religious zealots crossed their stream.; 12/26/13, 5:14 PM
exhelodrvr1 said...: DOn't cross the streams!!; 12/26/13, 5:45 PM
YoungHegelian said...: Are you gonna tell me those swimmers didn't know they were made of meat?; 12/26/13, 5:55 PM
n.n said...: Centralization invites a mass piranha attack. Statistically, there would have been less victims if the swimmers were organically distributed. Oh, well. People like to cling to their failed distribution models.; 12/26/13, 6:23 PM
Humperdink said...: What is the creel limit for humans?
Admittedly, they are a tough catch.

Good thing the Piranhas were not using barbed hooks or the story could have ended differently. Or maybe they have a mandatory "catch and release" program in Argentina.; 12/26/13, 7:44 PM
Alex said...: You just can't stop hungry fish.; 12/26/13, 7:48 PM
Wince said...: The last time, I promise.

"They took my penis. They took my penis."; 12/26/13, 9:48 PM
a psychiatrist who learned from veterans said...: The story has a side article on Spitzer and his new girlfriend meeting her parents. I wonder what it takes to get over the bar to being Spitzer's interest?; 12/26/13, 10:32 PM
Bob said...: *sings*

You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't swim in a river with piranha and you don't mess around with Jim.; 12/27/13, 12:11 AM
Alex said...: I tug on Superman's cape all the time.; 12/27/13, 12:16 AM