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Thursday
Apr232009

How Long Would it Take Piranhas to Eat a Person? 

After a trip to the Amazon jungle, President Teddy Roosevelt famously reported seeing a pack of piranhas devour a cow in a few minutes. It must have been a very large school of fish—-or a very small cow. According to Ray Owczarzak, assistant curator of fishes at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

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Reader Comments (4)

So What Ray Owczarzak is saying, is that Teddy was talking a pile of Bollocks then!

April 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSimon

look at the abs on that fish!

April 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterbla bla blog

Depends on how big an angler we're talking about. Just saw 2010 protos for waders from a major co. that shall rename manless...(lol)

XXXL on the showflow early next year... unless you have a shizload of fishies, I'm guessing a bloke filling those pants... would be a feast lasting days.

April 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAO

Nice movie poster there. Classic Jaws rip off - with Keenan Wynn!

April 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDS Trout Flies

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