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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: DaGman

Praying for DaGman.


61 posted on 02/25/2006 7:57:35 AM PST by SwinneySwitch (Rio Grande-beyond your expectations!)
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To: SwinneySwitch
The Piranah is not legally sold in Texas but may be available on the black market.

It's those damn coyoteros!

62 posted on 02/25/2006 9:10:24 AM PST by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: SwinneySwitch
The Piranah is not legally sold in Texas but may be available on the black market.

Not coincidentally, so are the people they would be stopping.

63 posted on 02/25/2006 12:49:26 PM PST by Tall_Texan (Hate means never having to say you're crazy.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

People have caught Piranahs in Minneapolis while fishing the Mississippi.


64 posted on 02/25/2006 1:07:39 PM PST by miliantnutcase
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To: SwinneySwitch

LOL!


65 posted on 02/25/2006 5:09:36 PM PST by DaGman
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To: Eaker; Squantos
Dammit. There goes Lurkers Master Plan For Wealth And Power By Selling Black Market Pirhana.

Bastiches....

L

66 posted on 02/25/2006 5:19:23 PM PST by Lurker (In God I trust. Everybody else shows me their hands.)
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To: archy
That'd be pesadoteros there pardner.

L

67 posted on 02/25/2006 5:20:48 PM PST by Lurker (In God I trust. Everybody else shows me their hands.)
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should be pescadoteros...

L

68 posted on 02/25/2006 5:21:26 PM PST by Lurker (In God I trust. Everybody else shows me their hands.)
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To: Lurker

Sorry about that!

I did set you up with FEMA to sell them $870,000,000 in trailers to be shipped to Hope, AR!


69 posted on 02/25/2006 5:28:17 PM PST by Eaker (My Wife Rocks! - Islam is the cancer, the US Military and Militia is the answer!)
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To: SwinneySwitch
I doubt it would stop much. People swim in the Amazon. I wonder if the Rio Grande is too cool to load it up with crocodiles.
70 posted on 02/25/2006 5:31:52 PM PST by A knight without armor
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To: SwinneySwitch
I've sent CIA trained killer dolphins down there... Wonder how they'll mix with them Piranahs?

Mein Gott! How we could have used those in the English Channel! Would have been very interesting, eh?


71 posted on 02/25/2006 5:34:09 PM PST by Bender2 (Redid my FR Homepage just for ya'll... Now, Vote Republican and vote often)
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To: Dark Skies
It's amazing what fear and adrenalin can do. I was snorkling off Key West once and encountered an unusually large barracuda too closely.

LOL. I know what you mean. I did a camping trip in the Amazon (in Peru) once and we swam in the same river where the guides caught our Pirhana in. I was always prepared to eject myself from the water the second I felt any nibbling on me. The trick was to not make a splash, as that's what attracted the fish.

72 posted on 02/25/2006 5:34:34 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Eaker
FEMA is buying overpriced trailers by the.....well by the trailer load and we can't money to upgrade our phone system in the County EOC.

Here I sit using the full flower of 1970s technology while fielding phone calls.

Caller ID? What's that?

L

73 posted on 02/25/2006 5:34:44 PM PST by Lurker (In God I trust. Everybody else shows me their hands.)
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To: Lurker

Yer Profile Page sez it all in just a few words.


74 posted on 02/25/2006 5:42:05 PM PST by Eaker (My Wife Rocks! - Islam is the cancer, the US Military and Militia is the answer!)
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To: Eaker
Thanks.

Now snakeheads...genetically modified snakeheads let loose in the RG that might just work.

I saw a movie like that on Sci-Fi one night. That and I owned a snakehead years ago. Nearly went broke feeding the damned thing.

It could eat a dozen goldfish in less than 10 seconds, and I had to do that like every day or he got real ornery. Jumped out of the tank once and scared the bejeebers out of me.

Son of a gun was over a foot long when I got rid of it.

L

75 posted on 02/25/2006 5:47:46 PM PST by Lurker (In God I trust. Everybody else shows me their hands.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

What about alligators,
Water moccasins,
Copper heads,
Snapping turtles.....

Throw a few hungry bobcats on the shore and you'd have home!


76 posted on 02/25/2006 5:49:53 PM PST by najida (Me arguing for logic and against emotion is like Mother Teresa becoming a pole dancer.)
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To: A knight without armor
Nope.

"By the Cretaceous period crocodiles had become very abundant and widespread.

One of the most remarkable of the Cretaceous crocodiles comes from the Rio Grande in Texas. Named Deinosuchus ("terrible crocodile") this is the largest crocodile so far found. Its skull is 2m in length and if this creature had the proportions of a typical crocodile then it may have attained a length of 15m and weighed around 2 tonnes. Deinosuchus was sufficiently large and heavy to have preyed on sizeable dinosaurs, catching them by stealth as they waded into lakes and rivers to drink."

77 posted on 02/25/2006 7:49:15 PM PST by SwinneySwitch (Rio Grande-beyond your expectations!)
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