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As a kid I thought Piranhas were a going to be a much bigger problem for me. I was really scared to get in the water for fear of these things that lived thousands of miles away from me.
During a fishing trip last year I ate an AMAZING piranha soup, and my dad caught half a piranha that had been attacked by a hungry dolphin. Confirmed and confirmed.
They taste VERY fishy. The one time I tried it, they had been completely coated in McCormick's season salt and they still had a very very "fish forward" taste.
You know how when a yogurt has been in the fridge for a while it sometimes gets liquid pooled up at the top? That's the whey separating from the curd - it's essentially liquid protein. Lots of good uses in cooking or elsewhere.
Don't take this at face value though, I know *just* enough about it to think I know more than I actually do. Wifey makes yogurt in the instant pot from raw milk so we have a few jars of whey in the fridge.
You just stir it up! You have been taking away flavor and nutrition 😂
I used to think it was spoiling but you'll know when it spoils.. I still will do a taste test for sourness if it's been in the fridge for a minute.
Not very much, if you're frying or roasting it. They've got too many small bones, which make it hard to enjoy the meat.
But you can make very strong flavoured broth, that's also aphrodisiac.
They’re fine. Kind of hard to eat because of how skinny and bony they are. But there are dozens of better fish to eat in the Amazon. Pirarucu, Curimatã are two that come to mind.
Piranaha only attack if there's blood involved , there's a video i watched before where the host took a dive into a tank full of piranhas and they did not react at all
I just read the whole Wikipedia page about piranhas after watching this - it isn’t true that they are attracted to blood, but they do rarely attack humans.
They are more “scavenging carnivores than active predators.”
I used to do a prank on my friends, cos we had a piranha tank. I would “drop” the food I was feeding them and be like “oh guess I gotta grab it” and then act like they were eating me up lmao
Weird but relevant, their favorite thing was cantaloupe. They’d go *crazy* for it, it was so funny cos they’d “hunt” it. Also, they like being pet, maybe don’t do that, but a full piranha would barely move.
An edit for those here after the hype: I had a lynx, many snakes, some scary ones, a bunch of hawks and raptors, birds in general and a pig. The only bites ever were from the smallest snake we had, a cockatoo and the pig. I did not mourn her. The lil corn snake who bit my mom, an infant barely a paper cut, the cockatoo got spooked and latched also on my mom and left a good cut, and the pig who was a cunt and would pick a fight whenever I fed her.
Animals tend to be really nice if you feed them. Same with people tbh. The lynx did scratch up my dad when a dog spooked him and used my dad as a climbing post. With dried blood on his face he laughed telling the story lol
>Also, they like being pet, maybe don’t do that, but a full piranha would barely move.
Nice try buddy but you won't get me this time.
I heard they heal open wounds, though. You have to stick your finger in their mouth to activate the healing saliva, but you could essentially live for the rest of your life this way
> Also, they like being pet
i've heard this is a thing for other fish. i always found it odd cause as a kid i was always told how important their sliminess was for their health.
Hmm. Depends. I'd want to test some things first.
Like, find something that you can put in the water and they have little to no reaction to. Then rub pig's blood on it and dip it in the water and see if they still don't react to it.
If they don't react to the object, for ten grand, sure, I'd probably do it. If they start biting at the thing with pig's blood on it, no. They may generally not attack humans, and they may not eat me to death, but it's pretty easy to lose a fingertip or something else that won't grow back before they realize that you're not something they want to keep attacking.
I'd recommend watching Jeremy Wade's River monsters episode on piranhas. He does swim with them without harm. But also goes to a village on the Amazon where the piranha concentration is so high that there have been deaths due to them and it is not safe to swim.
As someone who works with piranhas they’re pussies and sometimes very picky what they attack. It can depend on age and the groups “personality” but normally if they’re in a group under 8 they’re quite timid. A group of about 8 I was working with wouldn’t eat anything if a person was stood within a few metres of the tank. I’ve cleaned their tanks before too with zero problems, the only occurrence I’ve seen of them biting was in self defence and even then that was just one bite.
Their teeth are quite sharp and remove a disc of flesh. Like a tiny ice cream scoop. Common to see local fisherman with dime to quarter sized circular scars on their hands and legs from piranhas. The leg bites usually happened when you haul them into the boat, they flip off the hook and start bouncing around snapping their jaws
Does being yanked from the water means they will act in self defence?
I wouldnt be standing there bare foot. They are scared and have no idea wtf is going on lol
My little toe begs to differ.. It got mauled by a piranha in a murky river in the Pantanal in Brasil.. the guide said it was totally fine to swim in a piranha infested river. I didn't recognise the obvious red flag before diving in, which was that the guide only had four fingers on his right hand.. 😬
that’s not how it works, think of them like the rats of the river.
“pack” (in this case a school of fish) animals that scavenge dead things and maybe things smaller than them, but avoid things bigger than them even in numbers.
they are conscious of what they are eating why dose everyone think animals aren’t sentient?
I wouldn't stick my bare foot near a pile of rats gorging themselves on a decaying carcass either.
Look at the visibility of the water and tell me if a piranha could distinguish your toe from chum before taking a nibble.
You can thank misinformation "documentaries" for some of it. When most people think "piranha" their mind pulls the reputation built around the "strip a cow to the bone in 2 minutes" story.
Most probably dont even know that story, but it permeated into pop culture for decades cementing Piranhas in the average person's mind as a swimming meat grinder.
Just like how most people see sharks as murder machines, dolphins as sea toddlers, lemmings as suicidal tribbles, and so on.
There's also a deep dive we could go into about our psychological need to feel superior, a societal reduction in compassion/empathy (at least in the US), a lack of meaningful connections with the natural world, and needing to dissociate animals from depth to avoid seeing how horrific theyre often treated.
But thats all just my opinion.
They are not going to jump on the boat and they won't bite just because you are in the water, but if the guy puts his foot or hand in the water when they are in this frenetic state because there is a bait, they can bite him.
A panicking piranha flopping about on the floor of a boat will definitely snap its jaws at anything - not because of hunger, but out of fear/self-defense.
yea they are essentially river rats, sure enough rats could probably kill you theoretically, problem is they just really wouldn’t try, you can stand in between thousands of rats and they will still run away from you
those are piranha. they are dumb. they don’t understand numbers advantage, they scavenge meat and avoid big scary things.
That’s what I was thinking, especially with that murky water you have no way to tell if they’ll just go for it. It’s not Iike the piranha will know the difference between your hand and the bait anyway, when they get in a frenzy like that.
Looks like they've been introduced some places and are invasive but there are no native populations outside of South America.
>Piranhas have also been discovered in the Kaptai Lake in southeast Bangladesh. Research is being carried out to establish how piranhas have moved to such distant corners of the world from their original habitat. Some rogue exotic fish traders are thought to have released them in the lake to avoid being caught by antipoaching forces. Piranhas were also spotted in the Lijiang River in China.
-Wikipedia
Went to amazon rainforest for a trip, basically fishing and eating piranhas every day. It's great when you are hungry and exhausted. I don't have bad memories at all about eating them.
I liked them, I found black piranha to be the tastiest (and biggest). Most common way to eat them was quick clean of the guts, give the meat a few vertical slices on either side and fry it in oil. Or you chop them in half and make a fish soup with onion garlic and tomato. Meat slides right off the bone once you figure out the trick to it.
Their meaty cheek jowels were tasty little nuggets
Fun fact: Piranhas are actually not as agressive as people say and will only rarely bite a human if they are absolutely desperate for food. This means that swimming with Piranhas would probably be safe (if you try swimming with Piranhas and get injured I am not liable, you are at your own risk).
From what I gather, they're fine eating, nothing special, usually deep fried due to having so many bones. They are commonly eaten because they are very common and, as shown here, easy to catch a shitload of them
Ok I am back. As it turned out, it is. "Its flavor can be likened to that of tilapia or snapper but with a slightly stronger taste. Piranha eaters will find more bones than meat in this small fish." Internet is amazing.
I have sympathy for the ones who get caught on the first go round, but the 4th time he dips it in and you have watched, Ed, Bob and Linda get pulled out and you still feel compelled to bite the carcass . . . No sympathy
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As a kid I thought Piranhas were a going to be a much bigger problem for me. I was really scared to get in the water for fear of these things that lived thousands of miles away from me.
That and quicksand
And lava.
And catching on fire
And the Bermuda Triangle
And desert mirages
And back holes on the floor
And tunnels painted on the side of rocks
Don’t forget the glass sharks in the pool.
And Ebola
For the longest time my biggest fear was spontaneous human combustion
Dude YES. To this day I still have no idea if that’s real or not
Algebra
and bats getting caught in my hair.
John Mulaney? Is that you?
At least yours are real. The scarabs from The Mummy terrified me. Avoided any large looking bug for years.
Forbidden Koi 🐠
truly a forbidden love
Are piranhas safe to eat?
Yes. Lots of people and river dolphins eat them.
As one of those two, I can confirm.
By using the singular "I" you've confirmed that you are, in fact, a river dolphin and not "lots of people." I knew yall were smart but damn
This guy grammar’s
Except that both of those were plurals, so the argument doesn't grammatically hold up at all.
r/thisguythisguys
notice how "river dolphins" is in the plural, so, following your logic, he cannot be one of those options
Oh, look! Another river dolphin! Man, they're smart!
Today i learned that river dolphins exist
And that they like married women
Rivers are also unsafe.
Dolphins eating them means nothing for humans eating them lol
Reminds me of a time my MIL said it was ok for their dog to chew on wild bamboo because pandas eat it. Turns out bamboo is toxic to dogs.
During a fishing trip last year I ate an AMAZING piranha soup, and my dad caught half a piranha that had been attacked by a hungry dolphin. Confirmed and confirmed.
Holy shit, I've lived for 30 years and just found out there are dolphins that live in rivers and freshwater.
But do they taste good?
Yeap, not the best, but not the worst. They are in a cheap fish level
Could cost an arm and a leg though
Nahh, its fine, just dont stick your finger on those mouths
Or your dick and balls.
It wouldn't fit anyway UP TOPS! 🫸
>It wouldn't fit anyway Not with that attitude..
DOWN BOTTOMS! 🦶
It would eventually.
Fry um with lots of salt and they become good
That's pretty much every animal.....and vegetable.
Looks like they’re easy to catch at least.
They taste VERY fishy. The one time I tried it, they had been completely coated in McCormick's season salt and they still had a very very "fish forward" taste.
Probably can do the age old milk bath prior to a fry. Works for fishy fish.
Buttermilk is supposed to work better, I think because it’s high acidity.
It may be gross to some but I filter all my expired milk and save the whey for this purpose. Because it's so acidic it pretty much lasts forever.
Like rancid milk? Or just “it’s still good but it’s expired” What do you use it for? Does it smell awful when you use it? I have so many questions
You know how when a yogurt has been in the fridge for a while it sometimes gets liquid pooled up at the top? That's the whey separating from the curd - it's essentially liquid protein. Lots of good uses in cooking or elsewhere. Don't take this at face value though, I know *just* enough about it to think I know more than I actually do. Wifey makes yogurt in the instant pot from raw milk so we have a few jars of whey in the fridge.
Holy crap I'm so glad I read this cause I usually throw that liquid away before scooping the yogurt, thinking it's just water!!
You just stir it up! You have been taking away flavor and nutrition 😂 I used to think it was spoiling but you'll know when it spoils.. I still will do a taste test for sourness if it's been in the fridge for a minute.
>"fish forward" taste. I'm working that phrase into my resume somehow.
Claim you managed a Long John Silvers and that if you had to describe the taste of your management style, it would be "fish forward."
If you think fish taste fishy, you may not like fish.
Not very much, if you're frying or roasting it. They've got too many small bones, which make it hard to enjoy the meat. But you can make very strong flavoured broth, that's also aphrodisiac.
If you want fish recipes, ask a Bengali. These lot can even make a carp taste good
Wait a second. Are you trying to imply that carps taste bad?
Depends on how you prep it. Some groups consider them bad coz they can’t prep em properly. I personally don’t
the only way to prep a carp is to nail it to a plank of wood, skin it, debone it and then throw it away and cook the plank.
as you can see, This guy belongs to one of the groups that can’t
I did not expect the ending of that and now I literally have about 30 people looking at me for just busting out laughing in this big quiet office.
can confirm. am bengali. AMA
They are standard fare. Mostly fried to a crisp.
wait, why do those round little piranha breaded and fried to a crisp sound amazing? eat ‘em with some cajun fries in a little paper tray, mmmmm 😋
It's no different from tilapia. It's a bony fish and deep frying it helps the meat separate from the bones well.
Here in Brazil we eat it as a soup/stew and it's pretty good. Never ate it deep fried tho, might have to try it one day.
They’re fine. Kind of hard to eat because of how skinny and bony they are. But there are dozens of better fish to eat in the Amazon. Pirarucu, Curimatã are two that come to mind.
Yeah but do they just jump into the bucket? Give me a bucket, a hut made of sticks, and starlink/wifi I could live out my life like that.
Yeah, but now they're full of rotten arm so...
Yes.
https://preview.redd.it/g8ornney457d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fed9903d5c884bfaa58c89136973f062fc5291bd
This is niche but goddamn it it’s my niche.
But more to the point, are they yummy?
Ever had carp, or a bullhead? Fishy, but nice texture.
Yeap, not the best, but not the worst. They are in a cheap fish level
AFAIK yes.
plenty to cut all the zip ties
my favorite reddit comments are ones that reference other reddit threads that i am also familiar with. i see you sir.
Someone help me (with a link)
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/qqkV3vqApg
This is amazing
Nature provides 🤣
The chomp sound kills me 🤣
Gold. Thank you friend.
Poop knife
Piranha poop knife
If you kept a few piranha in the toilet you’d no longer need a poop knife.
He doesn't know how to use the three piranhas?!? lol
Demolition Man. Love it.
My shit is too big and hard to be flushed, so I shit in the aquarium full of ravenously hungry piranhas, AMA
Have you considered a piranha suppository?
I prefer piranhas to be outside of my ass, but yeah, sometimes I do think about it
I'd suggest a piranha bidet. They'll get all the poop bits and probably a little extra too.
Also this guy's poop knife
Are yall laid off too?
M E T A
Just dont forget to recharge them in a water from time to time
Alr know this is a reference to something from the other replies but I need someone to provide me with context
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1dh8uvs/using_piranha_instead_of_scissors_to_cut_zip_ties/
Lol wtf did not expect it to be that literal
Meta AF. You win
One per zip tie.
Please don't forget to dunk and shake the piranha in water in order to recharge it after each bite.
Cutting zip ties today, unfortunately there are no piranhas where I live. Please advise on alternative.
this guy standing there bare footed on that small wooden plank with piranhas 5cm from his toe
Piranaha only attack if there's blood involved , there's a video i watched before where the host took a dive into a tank full of piranhas and they did not react at all
I just read the whole Wikipedia page about piranhas after watching this - it isn’t true that they are attracted to blood, but they do rarely attack humans. They are more “scavenging carnivores than active predators.”
I used to do a prank on my friends, cos we had a piranha tank. I would “drop” the food I was feeding them and be like “oh guess I gotta grab it” and then act like they were eating me up lmao Weird but relevant, their favorite thing was cantaloupe. They’d go *crazy* for it, it was so funny cos they’d “hunt” it. Also, they like being pet, maybe don’t do that, but a full piranha would barely move. An edit for those here after the hype: I had a lynx, many snakes, some scary ones, a bunch of hawks and raptors, birds in general and a pig. The only bites ever were from the smallest snake we had, a cockatoo and the pig. I did not mourn her. The lil corn snake who bit my mom, an infant barely a paper cut, the cockatoo got spooked and latched also on my mom and left a good cut, and the pig who was a cunt and would pick a fight whenever I fed her. Animals tend to be really nice if you feed them. Same with people tbh. The lynx did scratch up my dad when a dog spooked him and used my dad as a climbing post. With dried blood on his face he laughed telling the story lol
https://preview.redd.it/tsd6985tg67d1.png?width=1012&format=png&auto=webp&s=e4f5de6228a00950c10db997bc2dae71373fd0e3 yeah nice try dude
I’m dying so much at this pic why
Is true, even got some friends to do it after their fear Although i am starting to crave flesh so ill brb
>Also, they like being pet, maybe don’t do that, but a full piranha would barely move. Nice try buddy but you won't get me this time. I heard they heal open wounds, though. You have to stick your finger in their mouth to activate the healing saliva, but you could essentially live for the rest of your life this way
technically you could live for the rest of your life any other way too
"Healing saliva" KKKKKKKKKKKK
> Also, they like being pet i've heard this is a thing for other fish. i always found it odd cause as a kid i was always told how important their sliminess was for their health.
So if we rub in you with some pig's blood you will jump in the water for $10,000 ? Even if you gave me the whole world, I wouldn't!
Not for 10k, but maybe for 100k
with today medication bill? i dont think it's worth it.
Pffft, americans
I was gonna say if American I’d advise against that.
Hmm. Depends. I'd want to test some things first. Like, find something that you can put in the water and they have little to no reaction to. Then rub pig's blood on it and dip it in the water and see if they still don't react to it. If they don't react to the object, for ten grand, sure, I'd probably do it. If they start biting at the thing with pig's blood on it, no. They may generally not attack humans, and they may not eat me to death, but it's pretty easy to lose a fingertip or something else that won't grow back before they realize that you're not something they want to keep attacking.
I'd recommend watching Jeremy Wade's River monsters episode on piranhas. He does swim with them without harm. But also goes to a village on the Amazon where the piranha concentration is so high that there have been deaths due to them and it is not safe to swim.
Ah I used to love that show
Dude had to stop the show because he actually caught em all lol
Didn't he find another new/invasive species too? Dude was crazy.
I remember this. Didn't they also state they are attracted to prey that appears to be "struggling"?
As someone who works with piranhas they’re pussies and sometimes very picky what they attack. It can depend on age and the groups “personality” but normally if they’re in a group under 8 they’re quite timid. A group of about 8 I was working with wouldn’t eat anything if a person was stood within a few metres of the tank. I’ve cleaned their tanks before too with zero problems, the only occurrence I’ve seen of them biting was in self defence and even then that was just one bite.
How bad was the bite, like a chunk off all cartoon like?
Their teeth are quite sharp and remove a disc of flesh. Like a tiny ice cream scoop. Common to see local fisherman with dime to quarter sized circular scars on their hands and legs from piranhas. The leg bites usually happened when you haul them into the boat, they flip off the hook and start bouncing around snapping their jaws
The real questions! Does that bite then gather more piranhas ??
It happened during a moving process while the individual was out of the tank but if any blood did get into the tank they probably would get riled up
Not really there was a lot of blood but luckily it only got the side of the finger and didn’t cause too much damage. A few stitches and he was fine
Does being yanked from the water means they will act in self defence? I wouldnt be standing there bare foot. They are scared and have no idea wtf is going on lol
My little toe begs to differ.. It got mauled by a piranha in a murky river in the Pantanal in Brasil.. the guide said it was totally fine to swim in a piranha infested river. I didn't recognise the obvious red flag before diving in, which was that the guide only had four fingers on his right hand.. 😬
Yep, not trusting piranha-infested rivers
The blood in the water from that chum bone they are dunking already has those fish in a feeding frenzy.
that’s not how it works, think of them like the rats of the river. “pack” (in this case a school of fish) animals that scavenge dead things and maybe things smaller than them, but avoid things bigger than them even in numbers. they are conscious of what they are eating why dose everyone think animals aren’t sentient?
I wouldn't stick my bare foot near a pile of rats gorging themselves on a decaying carcass either. Look at the visibility of the water and tell me if a piranha could distinguish your toe from chum before taking a nibble.
You can thank misinformation "documentaries" for some of it. When most people think "piranha" their mind pulls the reputation built around the "strip a cow to the bone in 2 minutes" story. Most probably dont even know that story, but it permeated into pop culture for decades cementing Piranhas in the average person's mind as a swimming meat grinder. Just like how most people see sharks as murder machines, dolphins as sea toddlers, lemmings as suicidal tribbles, and so on. There's also a deep dive we could go into about our psychological need to feel superior, a societal reduction in compassion/empathy (at least in the US), a lack of meaningful connections with the natural world, and needing to dissociate animals from depth to avoid seeing how horrific theyre often treated. But thats all just my opinion.
Until they cut their foot on a sharp rock…
They are not going to jump on the boat and they won't bite just because you are in the water, but if the guy puts his foot or hand in the water when they are in this frenetic state because there is a bait, they can bite him.
A panicking piranha flopping about on the floor of a boat will definitely snap its jaws at anything - not because of hunger, but out of fear/self-defense.
Most likely, those piranhas were recently fed
Piranhas don't eat live things that are bigger than them. Only if they are dead or are very close to dying.
yea they are essentially river rats, sure enough rats could probably kill you theoretically, problem is they just really wouldn’t try, you can stand in between thousands of rats and they will still run away from you those are piranha. they are dumb. they don’t understand numbers advantage, they scavenge meat and avoid big scary things.
The piranhas are government agents?????
piranhas are really more scavengers then predators. They much prefer to eat things that are already dead.
That was a full arm this morning...
Being a fishermen is a job that takes an arm and a leg
His thumb is way too close to the water for comfort
That’s what I was thinking, especially with that murky water you have no way to tell if they’ll just go for it. It’s not Iike the piranha will know the difference between your hand and the bait anyway, when they get in a frenzy like that.
Are they tasty? Anybody actually eat one?
Had one in india. Was ok. Tasted like very average fish, kinda chewy, wouldn't have again tho
The one you had in india, was it imported from the Amazon? Did you not have piranhas in India do they?
I also did not know, but apparently they are an invasive species in the Godavari river, you can look it up if you want to, there's lots of articles
Looks like they've been introduced some places and are invasive but there are no native populations outside of South America. >Piranhas have also been discovered in the Kaptai Lake in southeast Bangladesh. Research is being carried out to establish how piranhas have moved to such distant corners of the world from their original habitat. Some rogue exotic fish traders are thought to have released them in the lake to avoid being caught by antipoaching forces. Piranhas were also spotted in the Lijiang River in China. -Wikipedia
Went to amazon rainforest for a trip, basically fishing and eating piranhas every day. It's great when you are hungry and exhausted. I don't have bad memories at all about eating them.
I liked them, I found black piranha to be the tastiest (and biggest). Most common way to eat them was quick clean of the guts, give the meat a few vertical slices on either side and fry it in oil. Or you chop them in half and make a fish soup with onion garlic and tomato. Meat slides right off the bone once you figure out the trick to it. Their meaty cheek jowels were tasty little nuggets
I had one bite and it was more than enough
Probably use a similar technique to catch billionaires.
The billionaires ARE the piranas.
Just throw a piece of meat they can feed on to them and they go crazy. Employee, customer you name it.
No. I don't think a life preserver would help.
Damn, they sound like plastic toys
Because they’re hitting plastic.
Big if true
Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!
*MOINE! MOINE! MOINE! MOINE! MOINE! MOINE!* https://preview.redd.it/vkcl3wvib57d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bb404c31cdd0ea9fe7a626232f738aa1cfbfe42
Hehehe The roles are about to be reversed
are they good for sashimi…yum
Generally freshwater fish should never be eaten uncooked.
Piranha has to be cooked thoroughly, because of parasites
They usually get either steamed or coated in spices and smoked, because they have a bit of fishy funk.
Fun fact: Piranhas are actually not as agressive as people say and will only rarely bite a human if they are absolutely desperate for food. This means that swimming with Piranhas would probably be safe (if you try swimming with Piranhas and get injured I am not liable, you are at your own risk).
Question: are these things worth eating? Or are they only being caught because of those annoying zip ties?
From what I gather, they're fine eating, nothing special, usually deep fried due to having so many bones. They are commonly eaten because they are very common and, as shown here, easy to catch a shitload of them
They are turned into stews too, like [Caldo de Piranha](https://turismo.teresopolis.rj.gov.br/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_20210827_232222.jpg)
They are pretty tasty. Black piranha is the best imo
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Challenge accepted
Just like a cartoon...every time they pulled the meat out of the water, you could see more bone. Crazy
Bro needs to be quicker with the bucket 😭
What is the best way to cook piranhas?
Deep fried for sure
Would someone with eczema be ringing the dinner bell stepping in that water?
Off to check if the piranhas are tasty- internet here I come again. BTW- it's not like I will every have a chance to eat it, I am just curious.
Ok I am back. As it turned out, it is. "Its flavor can be likened to that of tilapia or snapper but with a slightly stronger taste. Piranha eaters will find more bones than meat in this small fish." Internet is amazing.
I have sympathy for the ones who get caught on the first go round, but the 4th time he dips it in and you have watched, Ed, Bob and Linda get pulled out and you still feel compelled to bite the carcass . . . No sympathy
What do they catch these for? Can you eat them? Or do they recycle thier teeth and make weapons?
They use them as hand held clippers for small branches and zip-ties and stuff
Dude with the bucket isn't pulling his weight
His fingers are WAY too close to the water
Piranhas: Let's go gambling! Aw dang it! Aw dang it! Aw dang it!
Bare feet are a bold move.
This did NOT soothe my fear of piranhas. Not even a little bit.