Ping
Posted on 12/02/2004 5:43:35 AM PST by presidio9
OSLO, Norway - November in Norway is full of hazards. Ice-slicked streets, moose on the roads and fierce cold. So when a woman turned up with a nasty cut on her finger at an emergency room at an Oslo hospital, doctors were surprised to learn that the cause was not an upset house cat or a stray dog.
It was a piranha, as in the nasty, brutish fish found in South America that has a fabled reputation for traveling in schools and stripping cows down to the bone in a feeding frenzy.
But Helle Hogner wasn't in South America. Instead, she was bitten while at work at Oslo's Reptile Park and showing visitors how to feed the fish inside one of the center's aquariums.
"One of the piranhas suddenly decided that I was a flying fish," she told Wednesday's edition of the Telemarksavisa, a northern Norway newspaper. "At least it jumped into the air and snapped at one of my fingers and the blood just spurted. The piranha must have thought it was feeding time."
The bite was quick and clean and didn't hurt to begin with, she said. However, she decided to have it looked at just to be safe.
"It caused a certain amount of commotion when a middle-aged woman turned up at the emergency ward after being bitten on the finger by a piranha in Oslo," she said of her visit to the hospital this week.
"In the end, all the physicians were gathered around. It was a rare experience for them."
"showing visitors how to feed the fish inside one of the center's aquariums."
More like showing visitors how NOT to feed the fish.
Ping
I once had an Oscar that would jump out of the water to take goldfish from my fingers.
As if the Netherlands didn't have enough trouble with their jihadi's, now the fish have joined the fray.
AHHH..Yes,...the infamous Moose Pirahna strikes again...
Biting critter ping
We once elected a President who had a government run organization take money from my paycheck at a higher rate than before!
Don't tell me...this one bit your sister too, eh or was it yo' momma!?
Thanks for the ping, presidio9. I'll plead the Fifth.
I was figuring it would take less than nine posts for somebody's sister to get mentioned.
I'm sure she deserved it. ~S
And why would you put it in water...aren't you afraid that it will corode?
Not important, of course; but could move this story up,a notch or two. . .in the 'human interest' section.
Or was is Dinsdale Piranha? I thought he just nailed your head to the floor.
Hey, what can I say. Try living in a garbage can sometime and see how fresh seafood looks to you.
Ouch ping.
Ah, ya knew that was coming, didn't ya? LOL!
My uncle had a couple of piranhas at one time. Had them in a fish aquarium until one day my grandfather said they had to go and smashed them with a rock in their backyard.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.