[allmendream]

I stand corrected. I had heard different accounts while I was down in South America and for some reason a flat worm swimming up your urethra sounded more plausible than a catfish.

My unit in the USAF took that fish as a mascot, and we named our softball team the “Helmet Cats”; because that was the nickname we came up with for the Candiru based upon its relation to catfish and its point of entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru

[BwanaNdege]

They had a special on one of the cable science channels last week. http://animal.discovery.com/videos/river-monsters-fish-swims-up-urine-stream.html Lots of gruesome photos, plus an interview with the doctor who removed the catfish.

They had endoscopy video of the operation, plus showed the offending fish preserved in a jar. The show’s host eventually located the victim and reunited him with the doctor plus showed him, for the first time, the fish in the jar.

Very effective confirmation of the “urban legend”