Testicle-eating fish discovered in Illinois lake

MNN ^ | Thu, Aug 02 2012 | Bryan Nelson

[Slings and Arrows]

An invasive fish, known in some parts of the world as "The [CENSORED] Cutter" due to its alleged appetite for human testicles, has been found in Illinois' Lake Lou Yaeger, reports the Huffington Post.

 

Residents who frequent the lake have been on guard ever since a local fishermen caught one specimen in June. Originally believed to be a piranha, officials with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources later identified the fish as a pacu-- an Amazonian species related to the piranha. Unlike the piranha, though, which is known for its flesh-cutting serrated incisors, the pacu has blunt chompers that more closely resemble human teeth. They are also much larger than piranha, growing as large as 55 pounds.

 

The good news is the pacu's diet is normally vegetarian: nuts, leaves and aquatic vegetation. But in some parts of the world the fish is known to feast on nuts of a different sort. In Papua New Guinea, where the species was introduced in the 1990's to bolster local fisheries, the fish has been blamed for a series of horrifying attacks that left some men castrated.

[Slings and Arrows]

I had you at “testicle-eating”.

[Gene Eric]

Now we know why fish don’t have balls.

[Slings and Arrows]

> Chef from South Park penned a song that could be appropriate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ew06J05pkk

[goseminoles]

Lol!!!!

[ConservativeStatement]

And a link to a Towelie clip awaits. Priceless.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

There goes the natural balance of the local waters.. The Asian carp is doing damage too.. I wonder if our government is planting these fish to destroy our fishing industry? THAT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME AT THIS POINT. SABOTAGE is rampant under 0bama!

[goseminoles]

Bob Defer for ya..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRWNr6bgEmc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[ConservativeStatement]

If this debate was about Candy, Obama would be the Mounds bar and Mitt would be Almond Joy.

[Slings and Arrows]

Search engines: The key to limitless cosmic power.

[goseminoles]

It never ends.. ;0)

[MacMattico]

Obamounds !

[shibumi]

"Why did I open and read this thread?"

Paraphilia.

[Salamander]

I’d like to thank you profusely for pinging me to a thread that I was studiously, purposefully avoiding.

:P

[HerrBlucher]

Speak for yourself.....LOL!

[Slings and Arrows]

I thought you liked fish?

;^)

[JoeProBono]

[shibumi]

You could always ignore me.

[Salamander]

As if.

[Salamander]

I did until the dopes at PetCo sent me home with 3 Bristle nose catfish who had some horrible disease that wiped out a large and well established tank of very beloved fish.

Dealing with fish is still too emotionally upsetting.

[shibumi]