• @MicroWaveOP
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    2 years ago

    “Obviously being in a neighborhood pond, we’re used to just catching a few bass or catfish,” she said. “I mean, nothing with human-like teeth.”

    • Flying Squid
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      52 years ago

      That’s the way I’d describe them too. That and “horrific.”

  • @LordOfTheChia
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    52 years ago

    This part was gold:

    It’s not normal to get your testicles bitten off, of course, but it can happen, especially now in Sweden," fish expert Henrik Carl said at the time, although he warned that people were still more likely to die from drowning than from a pacu attack.

    In reality, the red-bellied pacu and related species actually rely on nuts

  • @MoonshineDegreaser
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    32 years ago

    It’s known as “The Ball Cutter”. Why haven’t we tracked these things down yet?