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“South American Piranha Fished from River Thames
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LONDON (Reuters) - Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water; a ferocious, carnivorous South American Piranha has been fished from London's River Thames, the Environment Agency said on Thursday.


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The 10cm-long Red Bellied Piranha was dropped by a passing seagull onto the deck of a boat built to oxygenate the river. The Thames was declared "dead" in the 1960s but, its water cleaned, it is now home to 119 types of fish.


"It was very fresh and had obviously only just died. You could see the marks made by the seagull's beak on its back," fisheries officer Tom Cousins said.


Experts were quick to reassure Londoners they need not fear marauding shoals of meat-eating fish. The reputation of the piranha is worse than its bite and despite global warming, the Thames remains too cold to support such warmwater fish.


"We imagine that it was probably released and then floated to the surface where it was picked up by one of the very hungry seagulls and deposited in the boat," London Aquarium curator Paul Hale said

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“SKINNY-DIP!”

“They're good eatin', too.”

“Oh Christ, Scott, you are one sick dude. Pshyco Mike-O in the raw...EEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!”

“Years ago, I stayed for two months with a "primitive" tribe in Brazil near the Japura River. (Only two members of the tribe had ever been to "civilization")

The village was on a stream and the people would swim and play in it. The stream was loaded with Piranha.
The elders told me that the Piranha would not hurt humans (even if cut). it took me the better part of a month to finally swim in the stream (and everyone skinny dips!).

So, I am convinced today that all these stories about Piranhas eating humans is just ignorance and fiction.

Incidently these "primitive" people were the most spiritual and serene people I have ever met in my life. They were happy, kind and extremely healthy and were in tune with all the natural things that surrounded them. I went back several times over a twenty year period.”