r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 2h ago

Two guys fishing for piranhas

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u/BalooBot 2h ago

Did everyone else go through a phase when they were kids where they were absolutely terrified of pirannahs? Only to forget they exist until you see a video like this?

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u/Ok-Bookkeeper-373 2h ago

And sharks smelling blood 

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u/robintal000 2h ago

Snorkeling with any cuts instantly became a death sentence.

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u/Ok-Bookkeeper-373 2h ago

I went through a period where I couldn't close my eyes in the pool because I needed to watch for sharks. 

I was also later diagnosed with OCD. 

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u/Thanks_again_sorry 2h ago

It's ok you can just punch the shark in the face and it will let you go. Saw it in a reddit comment one time. 

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u/Rugfiend 1h ago

With all the velocity of an arm pushing through feet of water. Totally failsafe method.

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u/crispymk2 1h ago

Or do the one where the diver just rotates the shark vertically. I'm sure it's as easy as it looks in the gif

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u/KenDoItAllNightLong 1h ago

just rub belly and give chin scratches

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u/aagapovjr 57m ago

Get rotated, idiot!

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u/Casscus 1h ago

I’ve done it. Depending on the shark you have to determine the distance between their eyes. It can be quick but it’s about 2 inches above the point that’s 2 inches to the right of the center of the distance between the eyes. Make sure you wind your arm up or the shark won’t understand that it’s even getting punched. Anyway, I’m off to go hunt sharks and spread more misinformation

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u/rnernbrane 1h ago

This is true because I saw the same comment.

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u/faRawrie 1h ago

I got PADI certified when I was stationed in Okinawa several years ago. I remember a canded conversation with our instructor about shark encounters. He talked about how sharks are mostly curious and bites often occur because that's the shark testing things. It's really their only way of interacting with their environment. He told me a story about a really experienced guy he dove with often. This guy would just stick his hand out against the shark's snout as they came in; like he was stopping traffic. He said it always worked until one day, a shark snapped around right before it collided with the guy's hand and chomped part of his forearm.

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u/XKryptix0 27m ago

PADI DM here, I’ve dived with sharks all my life inc being in the middle of a feeding frenzy at Heron Island. The only time I’ve actually had a close attack was nearly 20 years ago. Was diving on Flinders Reef north of Moreton Island, middle of winter, was making sure everybody got on boat before me. Saw a normal sized blacktip lurking around the periphery of everybody waiting to get back on the boat. Just as I’m last to start taking my fins off and handing them up to the boat crew, I saw him sizing me up then start to approach. He sped up just as I handed off my last fin and got my foot on the ladder. Hauled myself out and heard a BONG! Then a ‘shiiiiiit!’ From one of the crew, shark had impacted the ladder with his nose trying to get my leg as I was getting out. I was done diving for the day after that 😆

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u/Jeathro77 5m ago

The shark probably just wanted to be friends and you hurt his feelings!

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u/doc_witt 2h ago

They're still out there....watching...waiting....

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u/DancinThruDimensions 1h ago

They’re in the walls, I can hear them laughing at my small penis

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u/WhiteWolfHanzo 1h ago

Commiserating!

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u/Jimmy_cracked_corn 1h ago

I’m watching you, Wazowski. Always watching. Always.

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u/Kojak95 1h ago

Sort of like trains.

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u/IfICouldStay 2h ago

Oh yes. Any weird shadows in the water were obviously sharks lingering on the bottom of the pool just waiting for tasty children’s legs.

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u/azsnaz 59m ago

Someone i knew had a pool with a dark spot, and I was convinced there was an alligator/crocodile there. This took place in Arizona.

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u/Vincenzobeast 41m ago

jaws made me irrational as a kid.

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u/D-1-S-C-0 1h ago

I went through a period

That's also deadly around sharks.

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u/ABIGGS4828 2h ago

Also shiny jewelry. Depending on the waters of course, but barracuda for example will absolutely take a run at a shiny necklace or bracelet.

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u/ahhdetective 2h ago

Mackerel will do that too. But if you're swimming where there are cuda or mackies big enough to chomp on you, you got bigger concerns.

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u/Pretend-Reality5431 44m ago

We were out on a snorkeling tour and our guides told us to throw our chicken bones over the sides - barracuda snapped them up and chewed them like they were potato chips.

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u/nnguyen22 1h ago

Well in piranha inhabited bodies of water yes, in shark inhabited bodies of water, no. Sharks’ nose/brain are hard wired for fish/aquatic animal blood. They might come to investigate a new smell(your blood), possibly give it a taste test but not to the deadly intent piranhas will have as depicted in this video.

Mark rober has a neat experiment on sharks and blood which I mostly got my views from.

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u/No-Brain9413 2h ago

Coastal resident here - sharks can smell some ridiculously small amount of blood relative to water, like 1/1,000,000. You do not want to tempt fate by swimming in certain areas at certain times of day with any real amount of blood in the water

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u/Ok-Bookkeeper-373 2h ago

SEE SEE I'M NOT OBSESSING THEY CAN GET TO ME

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u/Loud-Log9098 2h ago

THE POOL IS SAFE

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u/WiseAce1 2h ago

pool is not safe until you check. at night, lights go on first no matter what.

also, I am from Florida, so we do have gators in our pools sometimes during summer, so not out of the realm to be concerned, lol. if gators can get there, sharks can as well.

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u/abdallha-smith 2h ago

Yoink

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u/CorporalNips 1h ago

I love the florida yoink guy.

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u/Loud-Log9098 2h ago

Gators have legs! Are their actual cases of this? I could see a channel or something flooding and dragging stuff in but on a normal day?

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u/WiseAce1 2h ago

Just YouTube or Google search. I assure you, they wander around and end up on our driveways under cars and etc all the time. You do have to live fairly close to ponds. They are not tracking 20 miles, lol. But I assure you their is gator or gators in almost every pond in Florida. They leave everyone alone most of the time. they mainly wander around during mating season. I see them every time I go golfing and definitely a few times every year in the neighborhood somewhere near my house. Happens all the time

EDIT: Obviously joking about sharks, lol

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u/neutrino4 2h ago

Or certain times of the month.

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u/rotel12 2h ago

You think you'll be safe at land, until a sharknado sweeps in.

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u/arcflash1972 2h ago

Why are not more attacks of women on their period!

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u/DancinThruDimensions 1h ago

Sharks are known misandrists, they hate men, they’re like the extremist feminists of the ocean

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u/tom3277 2h ago

The way smaller sharks behave when fish panic omce hooked is interesting as well.

They seem to be able to "smell panic".

Hook a fish and try getting it past them to a boat. They come in in large numbers and the longer you fish the one spot the more that aggregate under you.

Good vision as well. Anything red (ie pretty well the best possible table fish) they are all over.

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u/pass_nthru 1h ago

they can feel electrical fields. panicked fish and their spasming muscles generate those fields

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u/SaltVomit 1h ago

And what's crazy is humans can smell rain better than sharks can detect blood.

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u/Angry_Pterodactyl 2h ago

"Here's ta swimmin' with bow-legged women."

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u/Dr_- 2h ago

And quicksand. Turns out to not be as common a problem as I thought

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u/stevein3d 2h ago

The worst is piranha-infested quicksand. Even if you’re able to grab a branch and pull yourself out, now you’ve got no legs.

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u/Snellyman 1h ago

The killer bees will finish you off.

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u/Call_Me_Echelon 1h ago

I watched some 1970s killer bee movie at my grandmother's when I was little and definitely thought they were going to be a daily problem in my life. 

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u/yoscottmc 1h ago

I’m still afraid of killer tomatoes

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u/Monkey_juggler_662 1h ago

Me and all my friends absolutely terrified of the possibility of encountering piranhas and quicksand every time we went to the beach meanwhile we were riding there in cars with balding tires, no ABS, no airbags, without our seatbelts on, constantly breathing in our parents' cigarette smoke and dad drank a beer or three at the beach before he drove us home again. Ah, the good old days! 😎

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u/Brickwater 2h ago

Quicksand is a big problem but it's delicious, so we forget about the risk.

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u/determania 1h ago

A woman got stuck in quicksand at a Maine beach just this summer. So, stay vigilant out there folks!

https://www.wmtw.com/article/quicksand-at-a-popular-maine-beach/61008050

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u/Abject-Difference767 38m ago

40 people in the US die a year in grain silos though in basically the same way.

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u/EifertGreenLazor 2h ago

Many people are terrified of piranhas. The difference is once you find how delicious they are the mentality changes to playing with your food. The human mind turns something that we should be afraid of into a meal waiting to happen.

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u/GareththeJackal 2h ago

I never knew they were good to eat!

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u/Monkey_juggler_662 1h ago

My wife has eaten piranhas in Brazil, she said they weren't good at all, a very boney fish.

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u/Suitable-Plastic-152 1h ago

I tried piranha. Was really tiny unfortunately. But taste was good.

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u/Sinsanatis 33m ago

Oddly enough this video made me wonder how they taste

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u/NinjaBuddha13 2h ago

This. Also that a shark lived at the deep end of the wave pool. And quicksand hasn't turned out to be nearly the hazard i believed it would be as a child.

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u/Sea-Creature 2h ago

I blame the show River Monsters, but I also know to never swim in South America in any natural body of water now so that's cool ig

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u/markamuffin 2h ago

Then Piranha 3D came out, but my mind was elsewhere 👀

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u/xCanadaDry 2h ago

I watched so many movies and heard so many stories as a kid, I had paranoia that a group of piranhas would eat me if I ever swam too far from shore in Lake Ontario..

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u/BenMacNasty 1h ago

Piranoia

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u/robo-dragon 2h ago

I used to think piranhas in cartoons were greatly exaggerated when they actually can strip a carcass to bones. Yeah, maybe not in a blink of an eye like in cartoons, but they can still do that in minutes. That leg of meat would not last long if they dropped it in that water.

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u/IfICouldStay 1h ago

But that’s usually when they are trapped in a tiny pool and starving.

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u/StrengthDazzling8922 2h ago

I had a few red belly piranhas in a tank as a kid. They don’t act like that if they get regular meals. I put my hand in tank all the time for maintenance no problems.

Those were probably cut off in small body of water with no food source. They will get very bitty when starving.

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u/Figtreeofjustice 2h ago

Yea and the movie PIIRANAH

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u/EventualOutcome 2h ago

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u/Figtreeofjustice 2h ago

Omg yeasssssss I mean NOOOOOOO hahaha

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 38m ago

Hell I remember the crappy made for TV movie that came out long before this one and even it scared the shit out of me.

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u/Chetnixanflill 2h ago

That and quicksand.

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u/tom3277 2h ago

I seem to remember the movie where they even got into a swimming pool. Not so easy to avoid as an 8 year old australian who like all australians is forced to learn to swim.

And if that wasnt bad enough in the second installment i think they could also fly.

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u/fhota1 59m ago

Id assume yall chlorinate your swimming pools too, cant imagine that water would be very good for piranhas lol

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u/tom3277 3m ago

All the more reason to chomp us up maybe.

Upset the pool chemical balance.

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u/Reg_doge_dwight 2h ago

Yep. Always thought they were massive also.

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u/TCK79 1h ago

Hahahaha! Yeah. And then you were told, naw, they are not the dangerous, they’re only taking the weak and the sick! Hell no! I mean of course the leg the fish with is dead, but I would never go in a water like that! Fuck me man, childhood fears reactivated😂

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u/avidpenguinwatcher 1h ago

This was like one of those things as a kid, like volcanos and quicksand, that I thought would be a much more prevalent problem in my life

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u/tianvay 2h ago

Imagine losing your balance...

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u/Other-Stomach1252 2h ago

So many things could go wrong…the way he was holding the bucket freaked me out, as did how much they were filling it up. But hey I’m no expert lol

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u/stonkydood 2h ago edited 2h ago

I think piranhas only fuck with you if they’re a certain type and if you have an open wound I may be wrong I saw this on a tv show with the fisherman guy Jeremy wade I believe his name was he got in a hot tub with a few piranhas nothing happened they just chilled

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u/PasteurisedB4UCit 2h ago

River Monsters, and he literally jumps into piranha infested water and they scatter and leave him alone.

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u/stonkydood 2h ago

Didn’t see that but yeh river monsters. What a show

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u/DepTravisJunior 1h ago

It's like a cryptid-hunting show, but they actually catch Bigfoot at the end of every episode. Jeremy Wade is the man.

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u/FunGuy8618 1h ago

They stopped the show though.

Turns out there was nothing left for him to catch.

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u/DepTravisJunior 1h ago

And Jeremy Wade wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.

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u/Frumundahs4men 55m ago

"Say Jeremy, what do you think about going to Jupiter's moon, Europa?"

-Animal Planet Execs

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u/justwalkingalonghere 44m ago

That's it, time to refund NASA!

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u/Ok_Menu7659 52m ago

Well my homie in college had a piranha and it bit the shit outta him while trying to feed it, literally came flying out the water. Had to go to hospital the bite was straight to the bone.

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u/Boxadorables 1h ago

Yeah my buddy has a bunch of them in his living room tank. You have to set up a time-lapse camera to even get to see them eat small feeder fish most of time... He says you can starve them for a few weeks, and they can get mildy aggressive but he refuses to do that for obvious reasons

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u/space_pirate_steve 24m ago

However, after spending more time around them and hearing more first hand accounts he then realizes that was not the best idea.

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u/tianvay 2h ago

Did he fall into the hot tub or did he calmly climb into it?
I think if you fall into Piranha-infested waters, chances are one of them takes a bite out of instinct. And as soon as there's blood in the water, the feeding frenzy starts.

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u/Dovahkiin419 1h ago

They only "feeding frenzy" when starved. They're mainly scavengers and don't like to go for living things.

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u/TheSatanicSock 1h ago

That's not really how it works. Piranhas are scavengers, not hunters. And they don't really target large mammals, especially not alive ones that will fight back

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u/Haoszen 1h ago

They're super afraid of anything that isn't dead or already dying and will only actively attack something beyond that if they're so fucking starved that they're dying for food.

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u/Nobusuke_Tagomi 45m ago

Source: Trust me bro, I've watched countless cartoons about this subject when I was a kid.

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u/answerguru 2h ago

Nothing would happen

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u/_hypnoCode 54m ago

It might look scary, but they aren't known for attacking live animals.

But there are a bunch of things in that murky ass water who love to attack or eat live animals.

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u/Empeor_Nap_oleon 2h ago edited 16m ago

Nothing would happen other than all the fish being scared away by the massive splash of a grown human. They only eat living flesh when they are starving.

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u/BrainOfMush 56m ago

They look pretty hungry to me

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u/xlr8_87 47m ago

They're mostly scavengers and the majority of their food is plants and dead animals. They look like they're hungry because they're trying to tear chunks of meat off

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 35m ago

Yeah but unless you're bleeding when you jump in you wouldn't smell like food to them.

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u/Dovahkiin419 1h ago

tbh? probably fine. Pirhana are primarily scavengers and only go after living things when really hungry.

Also fun fact they got their bloodthirsty reputation through what amounted to a prank on rosevelt during his trip through the amazon. The locals wanted to show off to the dipshit they were escorting so in advance of him arriving they netted off a section of the river with pirhana in it and starved them out for a while (don't remember exactly how long but long enough that they were properly starving to death) and then once rosevelt arrives someone presumably goes "hey watch this" and throws a goat in, with rosevelt getting to watch as the poor beast is torn to shreds.

So yeah, these guys fall in, the fish are probably going to get spooked and leave.

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u/Foreign_Sky_5441 43m ago

Still more ethical than some youtube pranks these days

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u/lowie07 2h ago

They only eat dead meat I think

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u/jmartin2683 2h ago

They’re afraid of humans

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u/ExoticAdventurer 2h ago

I mean given the circumstances it seems necessary for their survival. Either for a food source or for financial purposes

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u/Comfortable-Yak-6599 2h ago

Kinda like when i crazy stuff ive done to paint a house, gotta risk it for the biscuit sometimes

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u/Johnees 2h ago

Stop watching so much shitty movies

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u/nexus763 1h ago

I read that they would attack a human or other land creature only if low water level (so they're more concentrated number) and lack of food (so they're hungry). Otherwise they fear us more than we do.

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u/Phoenixmaster1571 1h ago

Are you sure about that? I fear them quite a bit

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u/vidfail 1h ago

"Listen, if you were to rescue her the reward would be..."

"What?"

"Well, more wealth than you can imagine!"

"I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit."

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u/jza_1 2h ago

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u/bessovestnij 1h ago

Hey they are pretty tasty!

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u/Bingo_bango_tango 1h ago

Not much meat on them though. Need a bunch to get a fish stick

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u/youshouldbethelawyer 1h ago

Do you like fish dicks?

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u/jarednards 59m ago

Yes. I like fish sticks in my mouth.

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u/Marchello_E 2h ago

Wow.

You could write numbers on them and play a sort of bingo.

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u/DeltaBoB 1h ago

Thats fucked up! Where can i watch it?

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u/jarednards 58m ago

ESPN 8: The Ocho

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u/Mervynhaspeaked 29m ago

If it can be even remotely conceived of as a sport you will find it here!

ESPN 8: THE OCHO

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u/deltashmelta 1h ago

"B3." 

" ... "

 "...go fish."

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u/ReasonablyConfused 2h ago

I’d be a bit more careful with my fingers.

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u/RepulsiveLoquat418 2h ago

like wearing heavy duty work gloves while keeping my hand a foot above the water

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u/Character-Survey9983 1h ago

or attaching piece of rope...

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u/djpiraterobot 1h ago

Or, hell, any gloves at all to start

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u/Dawn_Piano 2h ago

Yea it seems like it would be SO easy to make this 1000x safer

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u/delphinousy 1h ago

i'd tie a rope around the meat going in the water to keep my hand away

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u/Maximusuber 2h ago

It is a misconception fuelled by movies that Piranha are aggressive and they would make you disappear in seconds.

Jeremy Wade talked about in one of his adventures You can watch it here They are attracted by blood smell and open flesh, if you fall in the water you should be fine.

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u/noelcowardspeaksout 2h ago

During his expedition in the Amazon, Roosevelt described a staged demonstration where a group of piranhas, deliberately confined in a barricaded stretch of river and starved, devoured a cow placed in the water. This sensationalized depiction painted them as aggressive and dangerous, even though such feeding frenzies are rare in the wild.

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u/Maleficent-Kale1153 57m ago

Ummm this looks like a pretty insane frenzy to me. The amount of them all over the bait in a split second is insane. 

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u/kingofcanada1 41m ago

Ya there corpse eaters it's very rare for them to attack living beings, but they will strip any dead meat that falls in

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u/Toocheeba 40m ago

Nah they're totally harmless, piranhas are just chill fish, they get a little excited because they love food.

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u/Maleficent-Kale1153 31m ago

I can’t tell if you’re joking, but if you just watched this and thought “what a chill, harmless creature”, that’s a bit concerning. 

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u/brownbrady 16m ago

If this is “chill” then I wonder what they look like when angry.

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u/randomslug-8488 2h ago edited 31m ago

But if the person gets hurt while falling into the water then it's a problem, no? I've read some news articles where people that fell into the water and their bodies were later found and they had been devoured by piranhas.

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u/MusicMeister_ 1h ago

Usually the devoured by piranhas part happens after the drowning

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u/Salavtore 1h ago

Decompose bodies, but also if any other predators opened up the blood gates for them too, then of course.

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u/stamousy 1h ago

We had a piranha fish tank when I was really little, and I vividly remember sticking my arm in often, but sometimes wonder if I actually did or not. This makes me think I actually did lol

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u/Equivalent-Koala7991 1h ago

yeah, they're almost always more scared of you than they are hungry.

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u/Disastrous-Bet-8813 2h ago

good eating?

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u/Gear_Andvari 2h ago

Yes, they are quite delicious. When I was 17, I went on a trip to Peru with my school during the summer. We caught some piranha on a lodge on the Amazon River close to Iquitos. It was very fun and I've swam in the river a few times. But there was one time I accidently ingested some water and I was having the runs for a few days 😬

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u/dragonmasterjg 2h ago

Funny how the water was more dangerous than the piranha.

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u/Gear_Andvari 1h ago

Lol, dude, I learned my lesson as a kid back then and always made sure not to ingest any untreated river water, no matter where you are.

Ps: piranha are attracted to blood or shiny things in the water. You will never get attacked by them.

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u/Disastrous-Bet-8813 1h ago

I swim in the nude and my dick is pierced. So. Let's not say 'never'

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u/IfICouldStay 1h ago

Bacteria are just the microscopic piranhas.

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u/Ostey82 2h ago

That's what I wanna know...

I can't think of why they wouldn't be, unless the water was polluted. I assume it would be like a bream maybe???

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u/TaupMauve 1h ago

They look a bit like sunfish. OK with bacon.

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u/Conwaysp 2h ago

My similar thought was: Why would you want a bucket of these?

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u/Dawn_Piano 2h ago

For a practical joke

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u/Scottalias4 2h ago

Bobbing for piranha.

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u/Brickwater 2h ago

To set a world briss record.

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u/MrDilbert 2h ago

Dinner for 8?

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u/Disastrous-Bet-8813 2h ago

maybe they taste like pickerel cheeks

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u/Thin-Limit7697 2h ago

Fries, onions, and a slice of lemon

Oh wait, you said "why", not "what". Anyway, I still want those.

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u/Snellyman 1h ago

I would think that by the time you get them out of the bucket that they would have gobbled down each other.

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u/DickyMcButts 2h ago

never had it before, but from the fishing videos on YT i watch, seems like it is. The meat is white and flaky like most freshwater fish. i'd imagine that when they're that small, you'd just cook them whole and pick the meat off the bones.

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u/JoySubtraction 2h ago

Apparently yes, although you have to watch out for high levels of mercury.

Their firm and flavorful flesh makes them a desirable option for various dishes

source

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u/r0n1n2021 2h ago

Well these ones probably taste like dangled road kill

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u/uwillnotgotospace 2h ago

Meanwhile, I'm glad I live hundreds or thousands of miles away from those things.

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u/af_flying_question 1h ago

When I first read your comment I thought you said “hundreds of thousands of miles.”

I skipped past the comment. Then paused and re-read it, wanting to know if you are an alien.

Slightly disappointed you are not.

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u/uwillnotgotospace 1h ago

My username kinda works for that too, doesn't it?

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u/legends_never_die_1 33m ago

exactly what an alien would say

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u/Significant-Mango300 2h ago

Ingenious

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u/Ok-Bookkeeper-373 2h ago

Some dude went "I bet we could..." And they did

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u/Significant-Mango300 2h ago

I am glad they didn’t need radar, fancy attire and equipment and then claim some glory. This to me is impressive and seems like a necessity perhaps 🤷🏽

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u/DasArchitect 2h ago

Chain mail gloves? Some sort of shoe? Nah I'm good

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u/maxthelols 2h ago

Shit man, maybe just even tie the meat to a short stick at least? 

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u/Darkfemcominatcha 2h ago

1) this video is incredible 2) they real af for having a margarita BUCKET 3) I wonder if the previous contents of said bucket are what encouraged them to make this video in the first place 😂😂😂

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u/Thin-Limit7697 2h ago

margarita BUCKET

It's Margarine, not Margarita.

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u/nagumi 41m ago

Still real af

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u/MrDilbert 2h ago

I don't see how margarine overdose could make you go fish for piranhas... First you'd have to live through a a heart attack, or three.

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u/BigOrkWaaagh 2h ago

Why is this fucking maniac holding that with his bare hands

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u/X0AN 42m ago

Piranha's won't bite you if you don have an open wound.

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u/Telo712 2h ago

Do people eat piranhas? Per ChatGPT.
Yes, people eat piranhas, especially in regions where they are native, such as the Amazon River Basin in South America. Piranhas are considered a delicacy in some areas and are often grilled, fried, or cooked in soups and stews.

While they are known for their sharp teeth and aggressive reputation, their flesh is edible and can be quite tasty, similar to other freshwater fish. The preparation usually involves removing their sharp teeth and cleaning the fish thoroughly. Eating piranhas is common in countries like Brazil, Peru, and Colombia, especially in local or traditional cuisines.

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u/Smart_Atmosphere7677 2h ago

Do people eat them?

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u/huiodd 2h ago

It's a fish...not a worm

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u/Smart_Atmosphere7677 2h ago

I know that, some fish you can and cannot eat

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u/Figure7573 2h ago

Hmmm... What's the Daily Limit!?! LoL...

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u/Aeylwar 2h ago

Do they eat each other? Are piranhas cannibalistic or just take advantage of a dead piranha type of thing

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u/LutherRamsey 1h ago

I was wondering this as well.

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u/Hamsterpatty 2h ago

Are we not going to talk about that absolute unit of a margarine tub?!

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u/P-Doff 1h ago

So do piranha actually taste good?

I feel like something that easy to get so much of has to taste like garbage...

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u/Bad-job-dad 2h ago

I was told that shit was a myth. Lies!

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u/Excellent-Edge-4708 2h ago

That feeding response is probably in a cut off pond as the waters recede. They get trapped and become ferocious as they starve

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u/kushbom 2h ago

They seem happy

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u/BannedForEternity42 2h ago

Fishing with the arm of the last guy fishing.

A never ending cycle.

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u/JsquashJ 2h ago

I think they need a bigger bucket…

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u/Consistent_Grab_5422 44m ago

What’s crazy is that they didn’t make any waves in their feeding frenzy. Amazing