Man Admits Smuggling Nearly 40,000 Piranhas to NYC

NBC Bay Area ^ | Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014

[Rebelbase]

Everything invasive ends up in Florida.

[nickcarraway]

Democrats?

[momtothree]

He was that creepy. Fortunately, I had other friends around me. At the end of the semester, he asked me out. I said I had a really loving boyfriend who was a Marine (lied through my teeth on that one). It worked though...

[NFHale]

“...It could be a lot worse than...”

It would be catastrophic. They’d multiply fast, and destroy edible/sport fish. Like the Snakeheads that some other asswipe snuck into the country from Asia some years ago. They are horrible little bastards that ate the living hell out of bass, trout, etc., and caused major damage.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Drop him in a tank with his moneymakers.

[NFHale]

“...has any particular religious preference?...”

With a name like “Joel Rakower” he sounds less like “Religion of Pieces” and more like a worshipper of “The Almighty Greenback”.

But you never know with folks nowadays. Anything is possible.

Some people depend on the waterways for food.

[NFHale]

I wonder he does now, Pit Bull fighting?
Sick people in the world...

[NFHale]

Damn straight...

[nickcarraway]

There already are some piranha out there. I remember article about a few piranha in a lake in Pennsylvania and other places.

[Tax-chick]

Well, that’s pretty unpleasant. Maybe the climate keeps their reproductive rate down.

[Louis Foxwell]

These are tropical animals incapable of surviving temps below 50 centigrade. There is no place in the territorial where they can survive 1 year.

[Fai Mao]

“What law firm were they going to work for?”

They were hired by the EPA and IRS

[steve86]

One of my African cichlids does a great impression of a piranha, but won't bite me, even lets me pet him.

[NFHale]

PA is my home state... that is truly disturbing.

RE Reproduction:
Since they’re tropical and are used to warmer water, you may have a point there. Don’t know enough about them other than they’re voracious predators when they are have the numbers.

[steve86]

Seriously, they can’t survive below 122F?

[Nachoman]

Apparently, piranhas are the food of choice for albino sewer alligators.

[KarlInOhio]

Here kitty, kitty, kitty.

[JoeProBono]

[cpdiii]

Back in the 70s I worked in Venezuela. In one of our “watering holes” they had a Piranha in an aquarium. We would take delight in tapping the edge of the aquarium. The fish would get angry and snap at the finger to our great delight.

One fool thought it would be a good idea to do the same at the waters top of the aquarium. He quickly learned that was a bad idea. :).

Whiskey consumed in great quantities has a tendency to cloud better judgement.

[BCW]

...isn’t there a documentary that proved that Piranhas can live in 45 degree water...and some where surviving winters by swimming next to natural springs that empty into a lake area???

technically - they could be released in the Mississippi River and migrate south for the winter - and wreak havoc during the summer...