Visiting Illinois? Stay out of the water!

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It may just save yer nuts...literally.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... itals.html

A popular Illinois lake is on guard after the discovery in its waters of the exotic pacu fish - infamous for killing men by ripping off their testicles.


Known in Papua New Guinea as 'The Ball Cutter', the pacu has reportedly been responsible for the deaths of two fishermen in the Pacific nation, who died from blood loss after the fish had bitten off their testicles.

Initially thought to be a piranha, the fish caught in June was later confirmed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to be a pacu.

Although part of the same family, the pacu has thicker, sturdier teeth that resemble human ones, unlike the piranha, which is renowned for its deadly serrated incisors
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Can't think of many more horrible ways to die than bleeding out from that.....
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Ha... I knew there was a reason that I never go swimming north of the Mason Dixon line.

That thing is creepy.
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Wow


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Whos up for whiping that species off the planet?! :packin:
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Hope I never have a reson to go to Illinoisizecastan but thanks for the heads up. :pistol:
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That is one ugly fish!
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splains a lot.

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Eh. Pacus are big, hungry fish, but they're not particularly testicle-oriented. Pet shops sell 'em small, and unknowing people purchase and then abandon them when they get too big for their tank.

They're tropical fish and will die soon after the temperature drops unless they've found some warm spot like the effluence from a factory to live in.
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ratherfish wrote:splains a lot.

Balless yankees, and migrant Obama apologists!
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Kreutz wrote:It may just save yer nuts...literally.
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