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		I'm stuck in the lake. I'm so very scared. Help (dailymail.co.uk)		10
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doglover		2012-07-07 09:30:41 PM

2 votes:

Their main diet is nuts

BWA HA HA

Sid_6.7		2012-07-07 09:22:03 PM

2 votes:

Lake superintendent Jim Cadwell reminded everyone that the pacu is primarily a vegetarian fish

Yet look where he's keeping his hands in the photo.

PvtHike		2012-07-07 07:20:18 PM

2 votes:

Nuts.

Old Man Winter		2012-07-08 01:13:42 AM

1 votes:

The Pacu thing biting testicles off is total BS drummed up by a reality show.
Also, the Candiru's only known victim inserted it into his own urethra (at least according to the doctor ho treated him). It is basically impossible for it to lodge itself into a human's on its own power, nor would it serve any advantageous purpose if it could.

i_got_no_strings		2012-07-08 12:42:21 AM

1 votes:

Despite causing some worry in Illinois, most visitors to Lake Lou Yaeger were nonplussed.
'We have been in shark infested waters and till I see it with my own eyes it ain't going to bother me,' said lake-goer Keith Nessl.

Nonplussed and nonchalant are opposites, not synonyms! If someone is freaked out by the fish, they are nonplussed. If they don't care, they are nonchalant. If they can't write worth a damn and don't know what words mean, they write for the Daily Mail. Perhaps they were distracted by the bet they had going to see how many times they could mention testicles in one article.

fusillade762		2012-07-08 12:06:22 AM

1 votes:

Apparently Teddy Roosevelt thought they were delicious.

Theodore Roosevelt wrote of catching and eating pacu in his book Through the Brazilian Wilderness.[42][43] He described them as "good-sized, deep-bodied fish," and noted, "They were delicious eating."

Though the wiki entry on them doesn't mention a particular penchant for munching on ballsacks.

However, there is some question of whether the fish are a good choice for the typical hobbyist. While they are not aggressive carnivores like the piranha, their crushing jaw system, used primarily for eating seeds and nuts, can be hazardous. One toddler needed surgery after a pacu (misreported as a piranha) bit her finger at Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World in Scotland. Commenting on the incident, Deep Sea World zoological manager Matthew Kane warned "Pacus will eat anything, even children's wiggling fingers."[5] Another such incident occurred when a 60 cm (24-inch) Pacu (named Pacu) jumped out of his tank in Fort Worth, TX and bit the nose of his owner, which was later re-attached sans left nostril.

I'm gonna go with typical Daily Fail scaremongering.

BumpInTheNight		2012-07-08 12:00:23 AM

1 votes:

Remember that thread a few days ago about broken penises? What's the bets this was submitted by the same bastard?

PvtHike		2012-07-07 11:13:57 PM

1 votes:

PC LOAD LETTER: I am pretty sure that they fish naked in its native land. I doubt a clothed fisherman has anything to worry about.

Okay, you go in first.