Swedish men warned of crotch-chomping fish

The Local[Se] ^ | 9 Aug 2013

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Swedish men have been warned to keep their swimwear on while bathing in the Öresund Sound off the southern coast of Sweden after a relative of the piranha was discovered in the area.

Ever since a fisherman reeled in a 21 centimetre pacu in the Øresund Sound off southern Sweden, experts have been on alert. The fish species, a relative of the notorious piranha, caused museum staff in nearby Denmark to put out a warning.

"Keep your swimwear on if you're bathing in the Sound these days - maybe there are more out there!" the Natural History Museum of Denmark wrote.

The fish species is more usually found in warmer climes, and has a reputation as something of a ball breaker among male swimmers, an expert confirmed for The Local.

"The pacu is not normally dangerous to people but it has quite a serious bite, there have been incidents in other countries, such as Papua New Guinea where some men have had their testicles bitten off," said Henrik Carl, fish expert at the Danish museum.

While Carl said the museum's warning about the pacu, sometimes known as the "ball cutter", was meant "as a bit of fun", human victims of the pacu are rarely laughing.

"They bite because they're hungry, and testicles sit nicely in their mouth," he explained.

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[Slings and Arrows]

Sweden: It's not just sister-biting moose.

[Thanks to Gefn for the story!]

[dfwgator]

Get ready for, PIRANHANADO!

[Shady]

OW.

[Bob]

If there’s something like that anywhere in the ocean, I’m going to be wearing a cup any time that I get within ten miles of the coast. That’s one nasty looking critter.

[tumblindice]

Pacu bites can be very nasti.

[ClearCase_guy]

Pacu are freshwater fish from South America, which mostly eat vegetation and are not aggressive carnivores and do not have sharp teeth.

The story says they lurk in the cold north Atlantic, off the coast of Sweden and habitually eat testicles?

I say hoax.

[Slings and Arrows]

*shrug* It’s your testicles.

[Kickass Conservative]

If you want to get rich in Sweden, sell Kevlar Cups.

[smokingfrog]

You might even need a CODpiece.

[Stormdog]

“I say hoax.”

Me too. If it were red breasted it would be different. But either way, they’re fresh water species.

[mikrofon]

That's why you let the women do the crotch fishing

[TomGuy]

The SyFy Channel will probably create a made-for-SyFy movie about this within a week or two.

[KevinB]

[Jeff Chandler]

On Next Weeks Episode

[Slings and Arrows]

The fish has better teeth.

[tumblindice]

Werewitch of Washington! She’ll chomp your nuts off, Jack.

[peeps36]

I saw them on an episode of River Monsters a few months ago. The fisherman guy was investigating cases of men having their balls ripped off while swimming naked in fresh water. There were huge Pacu living in the waters they weren't native too.

[fso301]

That's why you let the women do the crotch fishing

Call me suspicious because anyone handling catfish like her movements suggested she was doing is going to get finned.

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[Las Vegas Ron]

The fish has better teeth.

Don't kid your self, that woman has devoured her share of testicles....

[Charles Henrickson]

I wonder if the pacu can be made into lutfisk. Problem solved.

[Charles Henrickson]

Lutfisk: The piece of cod that passes all understanding.

[Puppage]

That fish has a lotta balls, I tell ya.

[Slings and Arrows]

I wonder if the pacu can be made into lutfisk. Problem solved.

New problem created.

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[Rebelbase]

Ballcutter. Heh...

[PowderMonkey]

[null and void]

That explains the lack of testicular fortitude in the White Hut...

[JoeProBono]

[Jeff Chandler]

[ApplegateRanch]

Bikini team, moose, cheese, fish: Sweden has something for everyone!

Oops! Almost forgot the rules.

[Slings and Arrows]

Good compliance.

[Slings and Arrows]

It’s a start.

[null and void]

Image stolen for the Sharknado! ping list!

[EQAndyBuzz]

If Obama had a fish that chomped on the genitals of Swedish men it would look like this one.

[Puppage]

LOL

[Bernard Marx]

Pacu are freshwater fish from South America, which mostly eat vegetation and are not aggressive carnivores

Maybe they changed their habits when they heard tales of tasty Swedish meat balls.

[Slings and Arrows]

If Obama had a fish that chomped on the genitals of Swedish men it would look like this one.

Who's to say he doesn't?

[blueunicorn6]

“Experts have been on alert”?
There are experts on fish biting your private parts? Must be a government job.

[Marcella]

My son was making a documentary film in the Amazon and had to wade across water with piranha in it. The rest of the crew stepped on stones to get across, but he had the camera and couldn’t afford to slip on a stone and end up in the water with a ruined camera as there would be no film made if the camera was dead.

He first checked all over his body (with the crew looking on him also before they went across) for scratches or a small scab, anything on his skin that would give the piranha the “eat” signal. He went across the waist deep water and came out with all his parts intact and the camera dry.

[onona]

oh man !

[martin_fierro]

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[doorgunner69]

I would think swimming on the ocean off Sweden would cause such shrinkage as to make the target very elusive.

[tumblindice]

‘Bite they little heads off
Nibble on they tiny gonads
Roly Poly gonads
Eat them up, yum!’

Klibanobama III,
Barry’s illegitimate son
with Reggie Love

[dayglored]

> That's why you let the women do the crotch fishing

That's freeping bizarre.

[tanuki]

My moose was bitten by a fish.

[dearolddad]

Has Barney Frankfurter retired and moved to Sweden?

[mikrofon]

Hey, it’s “Reality” TV ...

[dixiechick2000]

I love these threads!

;-)