Posted on 02/24/2006 12:02:44 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Are twisted individuals introducing Piranah into border river?
Are Piranha fish being maliciously and quietly stocked in the Rio Grande by twisted individuals and groups hoping to slow the entry of illegal aliens into the United States?
Have jokes about Piranahs (Scientific Name: Pygocentrus nattereri) being put into the Rio Grande gone too far? Escape San Antonio is investigating the possibility that this insane practice has started or is about to start. Readers report hearing suggestions on stocking the Rio Grande with the flesh eating import. Some say that the images of men being devoured in a matter of minutes as we have all seen in old Tarzan movies are greatly exaggerated. Still, the vision of desperate people being attacked by schools of Piranhas is not a pleasant one.
Escape San Antonio is in contact with experts on the viability of the Piranah in Texas. Are they being introduced into the Rio Grand? Escape San Antonio supports border control but will gladly assist in the identifying of anyone actively transferring the deadly fish or in illegally providing them to groups planning to do so.
The Piranah is not legally sold in Texas but may be available on the black market.
Initial calls to the Texas Parks and Wildlife office in Austin have not produced any evidence that they have investigated reports of attempts to introduce the fish in the Rio Grand.
We talked to Gabriel Mendoza, the manager of Alamo Aquatics. Mendoza says his company will not even discuss the possibility of providing the Piranah to customers. He indicated that sale of the fish is not legal in most or all southern states but can be imported from northern suppliers. Escape San Antonio wonders why the fish can be sold in the United States at all since getting it to Texas is a simple matter. Piranahs can be purchased over the Internet.Don't think so? Google "piranah fish" and see what happens. We hope to see violators imprisoned when caught. No doubt their "shark" lawyers will get them off though.
Screwing up the ecology of the Rio Grand is a more likely result than slowing the swimmers.
Ohhhh okay, I'll leave it at that (your personal best)
I did'nt do it, nobody saw me do it, can't prove anything.
Sounds real cost effective.
These people are idiots.
Don't have a cow, Homer
I spent a couple of months in Brazil.
Watched kids and pigs playing in a piranha infested river, the San Francisco river.
The way the natives take their cattle across an infested river is to slit the throat of one cow, downstream. Then take the others across upstream.
So this is not a story. There is not even anything here to base a story on. What's the point? May as well write a story that there are no northern pike in the Rio Grande and that they are investigating it if there really are not or maybe might not be.
Rio Grande (Northern) Pike Fishing
http://www.edadamsflyfishing.com/pike/index.php3
As I remember it now, I briefly walked on water (with my flippers still on).
Just remember to NEVER take your eyes off of JESUS and you can go a long way.
You make a good point. If fear can motivate, how much more can faith in Him.
Off to the store...have a great weekend!.
What's wrong with Aligators?
They're already there.
They should unleash the Piranha brothers on the border. There would be a lot of illegal aliens getting their heads nailed to the floor, or at the very least getting their heads nailed to a coffee table.
Well he had to, didn’t he? I mean, be fair, there was nothing else he could do. I mean, I had transgressed the unwritten law.
What had you done?
Er… well he never told me that, but he gave me his word that it was the case, and that’s good enough for me with old Dinsy. I mean, he didn’t want to nail my head to the floor. I had to insist. He wanted to let me off. There’s nothing Dinsdale wouldn’t do for you..
"Dimsdale said "you've been a very naughty boy not paying up (the extortion money) Walter" and then he stabbed out my eyes and cut my right leg off. I said "But my name's not 'Walter'. After that, he became positively cross. So he nailed by head to the floor"
There are examples of pools of water in a recent flood area where the fish are cut off from food source and starving and some unsuspecting creature staggers in and they go wild. They are also attracted by blood and will bite someone swimming with an open wound.
However, Pihanah were all in the lake I used to swim in down in Colombia. Kids swam and bathed there all the time and we never had a problem (I worked for a while with Wycliffe Bible Translators, and was on the base at Lomalinda). Most of they hysteria about the fish is old wive's tales.
Well, I'll be damned!
Sounds like a great new urban legend is born. If it slows them down I'm all for it - the legend that is. Somebody needs to get some cattle carcasses that have been mutilated and put them on the banks.
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