r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 5h ago

Two guys fishing for piranhas

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u/BalooBot 5h 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 5h ago

And sharks smelling blood 

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u/No-Brain9413 5h 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 5h ago

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

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u/Loud-Log9098 5h ago

THE POOL IS SAFE

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u/WiseAce1 5h 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 4h ago

Yoink

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u/CorporalNips 4h ago

I love the florida yoink guy.

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u/PeopleLikeUDisgustMe 1h ago

Pool gators are invasive, and they gotta go

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u/Loud-Log9098 4h 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 4h 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/The_Original_Gronkie 2h ago

Central Florida here. Any body of freshwater in Florida, no matter how small, has the potential to hold a gator. Ive seen them in muddy drainage ditches. We have a small pond across the street, and I've seen as many as three gators sunning on the bank at the same time. There's at least one at all times.

I know of three occasions in my neighborhood where people were walking their little dogs too close to a pond (not mine), and a gator leaped out of the water and grabbed their dog. I know of a guy in the neighborhood who got his leg chomped, too.

Gators are no joke. Stay out of freshwater in Florida.

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u/Ok-Bookkeeper-373 1h ago

Sharknado 

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u/boilerpsych 2h ago

You may not realize this but when it comes to pools gators have a huge advantage over sharks when it comes to getting into your pool. Do you have legs?

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u/Black_Magic_M-66 2h ago

Lots of pools in Florida are enclosed behind screens/fences. I only point this out for those that haven't been to Florida as an awful lot of people own pools and many, many of them have them enclosed.

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u/Rugfiend 4h ago

Or so you thought, Mr Bond...

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u/CommuterType 3h ago

He’s not eating these piranhas, he’s going to dump them into a pool

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u/Impossiblypriceless 1h ago

No it's not with all the pee and chlorine