The World's Largest Piranha

**Osceola** · April 14, 2008, 10:56 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc2NJ...eature=related

That is the most terrifying fish I've ever seen. A great white looks majestic while looking monstrous, but that animal looks.. demonic.

**tco** · April 14, 2008, 11:48 PM

Man that is scary.

**Norge** · April 15, 2008, 04:06 AM

it is definitely not a piranha .. It is a African Tigerfish

http://www.thejump.net/id/african-tigerfish.htm

Seems about right.

**Copperknickers II** · April 15, 2008, 05:45 AM

You think thats big?

these are big

**CtrlAltDe1337** · April 16, 2008, 10:58 PM

Wow, look at those teeth :O

**Banned** · April 17, 2008, 01:15 AM

I recently read somewhere that 5 piranhas can chew up a horse and its rider in just 7 minutes. I wonder how fast this one is.

**Dayman** · April 17, 2008, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by Annaeus

I recently read somewhere that 5 piranhas can chew up a horse and its rider in just 7 minutes. I wonder how fast this one is.

I think that's an exaggeration from Teddy Roosevelt's trip in the Amazon.

**Marie Louise von Preussen** · April 17, 2008, 01:09 PM

I wouldn't call some things from the Amazon an exageration. There are certain fish that can actually jump *into* your genitalia if you're urinating on a river there, and that is only the beginning.

**Dayman** · April 17, 2008, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Voltaire le Philosophe

I wouldn't call some things from the Amazon an exageration. There are certain fish that can actually jump *into* your genitalia if you're urinating on a river there, and that is only the beginning.

That's physically impossible and an urban legend.

The fish do exist and do swim into the urethra, however you must be in the river for that to happen.

**Marie Louise von Preussen** · April 17, 2008, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Boeing

That's physically impossible and an urban legend.

The fish do exist and do swim into the urethra, however you must be in the river for that to happen.

No, actually there are cases of this. Wait a moment...

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000519.html

**Dayman** · April 17, 2008, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by Voltaire le Philosophe

No, actually there are cases of this. Wait a moment...

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000519.html

Ah, but it can't travel up a stream of urine, you have to be in the actual water!

Think about it for a second, how is a fish going to have enough momentum to travel up a 2cm wide stream of fluid, upstream, and accurately hit the urethra?

Originally Posted by Straight Dope

and as far as I know, no one seriously maintains that it can swim out of the water and up a urine stream.

**Marie Louise von Preussen** · April 17, 2008, 03:12 PM

Ah yes, I misunderstood your post

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**D.B. Cooper** · April 17, 2008, 04:33 PM

I'm holding my, em, genetalia for dear life at the thought of it!

**Osceola** · April 19, 2008, 05:13 PM

Boeing, bro I don't think how it gets up there is the important thing here.

It's the fact it will get up there. ;_;

And as for piranhas, theres actually never been one authenticated account of a person actually being killed by piranhas. While sharks, have killed by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions considering ancient days in cultures without writing. Interestingly enough it's ship wreck and plane wreck survivors, that always seem to run out of luck on the "Sharks don't view humans as a food source." argument. The survivors of U.S.S. Indianapolis would have something to say about that.

Goddamn if piranhas aren't cool though. Which I was mistaken, that is not a piranha. It is quite accurately, an African Tigerfish. Which apparently have reports of them attacking humans.

If theres a fish anyone should be scared of though, it's the Man-Eating Giant Catfish found in the Amazon and on the other side of the world, the Mekong river. The giant catfish quite simply does attack and eat humans. Whether the majority of cases are scavenging of drowning victims (what kind of pansy drowns in a RIVER?) remains to be said, but they are aggressive, do attack, and yep, they do appreciate the other white meat.

**Valentin the II** · April 21, 2008, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by Vindicare

And as for piranhas, theres actually never been one authenticated account of a person actually being killed by piranhas. While sharks, have killed by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions considering ancient days in cultures without writing. Interestingly enough it's ship wreck and plane wreck survivors, that always seem to run out of luck on the "Sharks don't view humans as a food source." argument. The survivors of U.S.S. Indianapolis would have something to say about that.

But sharks dont actually eat humans, they dont like our taste.
Most of the fatalities cawsed by sharks are becaus of their curiosity.
You see, contrary to popular belief sharks are quite inteligent (for a fish), they are curious about the world around them, and the onely way they can chek something out is with their teeth.

Anyway, if you stay cool and relaxed with a white shark it shouldnt bother you.
Like this guy: