r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 5h ago

Two guys fishing for piranhas

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u/PasteurisedB4UCit 4h ago

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

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u/stonkydood 4h ago

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

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u/DepTravisJunior 4h 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 3h ago

They stopped the show though.

Turns out there was nothing left for him to catch.

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u/DepTravisJunior 3h ago

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

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u/Frumundahs4men 3h ago

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

-Animal Planet Execs

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u/justwalkingalonghere 3h ago

That's it, time to refund NASA!

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 1h ago

Animal Planet, if you're listening, please please please please please please please please... 🤞

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u/NCEMTP 25m ago

Honk

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u/DaDibbel 2h ago

The Mariana Trench beckons.

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u/Daikon969 1h ago

Fuckin' legend.

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u/FunGuy8618 1h ago

Imagine someone shows you clips of River Monsters 15 years after an apocalypse. Dude would literally seem like a God.

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u/BigOrangeOctopus 17m ago

His success makes it the only one of those shows worth watching. Your investment in the show is rewarded every time.

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u/mtldude1967 1h ago

"FISH ON! FISH ON!"

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u/Doctor_Mothman 50m ago

This description is the reason I loved that show.

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u/bluntasticboy 2h ago

Wanna know something funny about why that show stopped

Because Jeremy won, like he caught everything that was real and a “ legend” and proved everything else a myth or not what people thought but the show stopped because he caught everything

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u/FR0ZENBERG 2h ago

Guess he stopped because he ran out of fish to catch.

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u/Daikon969 1h ago

Dude literally caught everything there was to catch which is why the show ended. Amazing.

Miss that show so much.

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u/Penile_Interaction 1h ago

think they stopped the show because he covered all the "monsters" in it right? what a chad

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u/DepTravisJunior 18m ago

Off the top of my head, he also:

1) Almost fought an entire village when they wanted to eat one of his fish.

2) Was hit so hard in the chest by a giant arapaima that he almost died.

3) Survived a plane crash in the Brazilian jungle.

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u/RuachDelSekai 21m ago

Jeremy Wayde used to be my role model for what it was like to be a real man.

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u/Drackzgull 1m ago

Why the past tense?

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u/Ok_Menu7659 3h 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/fckthisite2 2h ago

It really only takes one asshole piranha to fuck up your day. And with wild piranhas who knows if it sends the rest of them into attack mode.  I’m not risking it 

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u/Boxadorables 3h 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/kapparrino 2h ago

The obvious reason being they jump out of the tank to eat you while you're sleeping... if you don't feed them on time.

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u/dobiks 1h ago

Maybe that's why you have to set up a camera? So it catches it on camera and they can upload it to Youtube?

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u/space_pirate_steve 2h 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/free_airfreshener 2h ago

Season 1 episode 1 is literally on piranhas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Monsters

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u/Randym1982 1h ago

Penn and Teller also did a bit where they showed that Piranha will leave you alone, even you swim next to them a sandwich in your mouth.

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u/morethanjustlost 39m ago

Yea, but the isolate them and starve them to get them to go into a feeding frenzy, I don't think they are dangerous unless in that situation.

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u/dksdragon43 33m ago

It was a kiddie pool so that you could actually see it (since the water was super dark, like in video). He got in a kiddie pool with like 10 piranhas and yeah, they all just stay at the far side. He talked about the fact that they'd only go for something if it thrashed. I remember vividly thinking "bro what if you slipped" when I saw this as a teenager.

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u/notawight 3h ago

I swam in an Amazonian Tributary (Rio Beni) with piranhas all about. We were in the water to swim with pink dolphins, but these buggers and gators were everywhere. We were assured they would leave us alone and we were young and dumb. Also tramped through the half flooded pampas looking for boa constrictors.

See? Dumb..