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Friday, February 20, 2004
*giggles uncontrollably*I don't know how many of you have seen this, but dear god it's amusing. I'll repost here for fun (though I won't include the image).
Piranha falls onto fishing boat
If you thought it was dangerous to go into Australian waters, a ferocious, carnivorous South American Piranha has been fished from London's River Thames.
The 10 centimetre-long red-bellied piranha was dropped by a passing seagull onto the deck of a boat built to oxygenate the river.
The Thames was declared biologically "dead" in the 1960s but now its water has been cleaned up. It is now home to 119 types of fish.
"It was very fresh and had obviously only just died. You could see the marks made by the seagull's beak on its back," fisheries officer Tom Cousins from the Environment Agency said.
Experts were quick to reassure Londoners they need not fear marauding shoals of meat-eating fish.
The reputation of the piranha is worse than its bite and despite global warming, the Thames remains too cold to support such warm-water fish.
"We imagine that it was probably released and then floated to the surface where it was picked up by one of the very hungry seagulls and deposited in the boat," London Aquarium curator Paul Hale said.
-- Reuters
Life is just grand, no?
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