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Will Piranah fish slow Rio Grande swimmers? [Texas]
Escape San Antonio ^ | 19.FEB.06 | Larry Nolan Stewart

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: borderops; pacu; piranah; riogrande
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To: Dark Skies

Ohhhh okay, I'll leave it at that (your personal best)


41 posted on 02/24/2006 12:44:39 PM PST by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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To: dfwgator

I did'nt do it, nobody saw me do it, can't prove anything.


42 posted on 02/24/2006 12:49:50 PM PST by Dinsdale
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To: SwinneySwitch
I think it would be cool to put them in the water at the River Walk in SA. (people could feed them the crappy food they serve) FYI: The movie "Piranha" was filmed in various locations throughout S. Central Texas including the San Marcos river and Town lake in Austin.
43 posted on 02/24/2006 12:53:22 PM PST by wolfcreek
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To: SwinneySwitch
The Piranah is not legally sold in Texas but may be available on the black market.

Sounds real cost effective.

These people are idiots.

44 posted on 02/24/2006 12:59:20 PM PST by Eaker (My Wife Rocks! - Islam is the cancer, the US Military and Militia is the answer!)
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To: Dinsdale

Don't have a cow, Homer


45 posted on 02/24/2006 1:02:40 PM PST by 70times7 (An open mind is a cesspool of thought)
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To: SwinneySwitch

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.


46 posted on 02/24/2006 1:20:15 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: SwinneySwitch
snake
47 posted on 02/24/2006 1:20:19 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody got a peanut.....)
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To: SwinneySwitch
"Escape San Antonio is investigating the possibility that this insane practice has started or is about to start."

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.

48 posted on 02/24/2006 1:22:52 PM PST by DaGman
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To: DaGman

Rio Grande (Northern) Pike Fishing

http://www.edadamsflyfishing.com/pike/index.php3


49 posted on 02/24/2006 1:47:01 PM PST by SwinneySwitch (Piranahs-beyond your expectations!)
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To: ExcursionGuy84
It's amazing what fear and adrenalin can do. I was snorkling off Key West once and encountered an unusually large barracuda too closely.

As I remember it now, I briefly walked on water (with my flippers still on).

50 posted on 02/24/2006 2:02:45 PM PST by Dark Skies ("Free speech is THE weapon of choice against islam.")
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To: Dark Skies
As I remember it now, I briefly walked on water.

Just remember to NEVER take your eyes off of JESUS and you can go a long way.

51 posted on 02/24/2006 2:07:21 PM PST by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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To: ExcursionGuy84
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!.

52 posted on 02/24/2006 2:09:27 PM PST by Dark Skies ("Free speech is THE weapon of choice against islam.")
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To: SwinneySwitch

What's wrong with Aligators?


53 posted on 02/24/2006 2:18:12 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative

They're already there.


54 posted on 02/24/2006 2:27:08 PM PST by SwinneySwitch (Piranahs-beyond your expectations!)
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To: dfwgator
Dinsdale?

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.

55 posted on 02/24/2006 2:32:09 PM PST by One_American
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To: One_American

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..


56 posted on 02/24/2006 2:34:14 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
"For many years the Pirhanna Brothers conducted their extortion "Operation" undetected and without fear. However, when they detonated a tactical nuclear warhead, even the police had to sit up and take notice."

"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"

57 posted on 02/24/2006 2:41:24 PM PST by One_American
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To: SwinneySwitch
Piranah, despite the grade B horror flicks which depict them stripping down unsuspecting bathers, rarely if ever attack in the kind of feeding frenzy portrayed in the movies.

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.

58 posted on 02/24/2006 3:08:51 PM PST by When_Penguins_Attack (Smashing Windows, Breaking down Gates. Proud Mepis User!!!!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Well, I'll be damned!


59 posted on 02/24/2006 9:39:59 PM PST by DaGman
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To: SwinneySwitch

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.


60 posted on 02/24/2006 9:43:16 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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