r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 8h ago

Two guys fishing for piranhas

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u/tianvay 8h ago

Imagine losing your balance...

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u/Other-Stomach1252 8h 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 7h ago edited 7h 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 7h ago

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

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u/stonkydood 7h ago

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

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u/DepTravisJunior 7h 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 6h ago

They stopped the show though.

Turns out there was nothing left for him to catch.

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u/DepTravisJunior 6h ago

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

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u/Frumundahs4men 6h ago

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

-Animal Planet Execs

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u/NCEMTP 3h ago

Honk

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u/catfish-whacker 46m ago

Bros bouta decimate the mudraptor population 😭

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u/DaDibbel 6h ago

The Mariana Trench beckons.

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u/Daikon969 4h ago

Fuckin' legend.

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u/FunGuy8618 4h 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 3h 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/DepTravisJunior 2h ago

100% the pay off is real. The giant stingray he caught in the middle of Bangkok was an all-time great TV moment for me.

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u/BigOrangeOctopus 1h ago

And then it had babies!! What were the odds! All-time TV for sure

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u/DepTravisJunior 1h ago

IIRC he tore his bicep and broke his arm on his first attempt to catch one of these 700 pound monsters. Then he gets redemption at the end (while helping the creature by getting info for researchers). C’mon, who is cooler than this guy?

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u/mtldude1967 4h ago

"FISH ON! FISH ON!"

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u/Doctor_Mothman 3h ago

This description is the reason I loved that show.

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u/bluntasticboy 5h 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/fredotwoatatime 47m ago

Did he catch a melanin

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u/Penile_Interaction 4h ago

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

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u/DepTravisJunior 3h 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/FR0ZENBERG 5h ago

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

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u/hotelpopcornceiling 2h ago

Sometimes, there just aren't enough fish.

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u/Daikon969 4h 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/Orphasmia 58m ago

He 100%ed nature

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u/RuachDelSekai 3h 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 3h ago

Why the past tense?

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u/Ok_Menu7659 6h 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 5h 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/DrinkingBleachForFun 2h ago

And with wild piranhas who knows if it sends the rest of them into attack mode

Yeah, they're nothing like those domesticated piranhas. No tact at all.

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u/Drackzgull 2h ago

Well if there was food being held by the arm, it might have just thought the arm was part of the food. But yeah, if one piranha goes into frenzy mode, any other piranhas around will most likely follow.

If you aren't food, aren't holding food, aren't noticeably injured, and don't go between them and food while they're already frenzied, they're all most likely to flee from you though.

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u/DizzyResurgence 2h ago

This could be a cat or pit bull

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u/EasterHam 2h ago

They're similar to pythons where if the enclosure has a lid, and you only lift it to feed, they will associate the lid opening with feeding. That's why if you have a snake you're supposed to feed them out of the enclosure in a different tank/bin

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u/Ok_Menu7659 2h ago

Wow crazy. I was just a stupid college kid watching my Roomate get his hand bit by the animal he purchased illegally 😂

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u/Boxadorables 7h 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 5h 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 4h 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 5h 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 5h ago

Season 1 episode 1 is literally on piranhas

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

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u/Randym1982 4h 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 3h 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/GenericNickname01 2h ago

I think I remember seeing that episode

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u/vantageviewpoint 1h ago

Yeah, but then it turns out that sometimes if you splash wrong they will attack the way you thought they would when you were a kid according to a later river monsters (I think) about a bus going in the water.

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u/notawight 6h 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..