Posted on 11/24/2011 4:07:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
Thousands of flesh-eating piranhas have appeared along a river beach popular with tourists in western Brazil, attacking unwary swimmers. A spokesman for the municipal government of Caceres in Mato Grosso state says at least 15 people have been bitten in the past two weeks off Daveron beach.
Nobody has died, but some swimmers have lost toes, and spokesman Gonzaga Junior says others have lost chunks of their legs and ankles
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Isn’t Brazil where they are going to have the summer Olympics? If so, swimming will be a riot to watch ... will probably speed up the races.
LOL! Thank you for the laugh!
It seems to me that swimming with piranhas is still safer than shopping ON BLACK FRIDAY.
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