Piranhas attack 100 beach goers in Brazil AWESOME!

[lesfunk]

The Huffington Post Laura Hibbard First Posted: 9/26/11 12:56 PM ET
Remember that so-bad-it's-almost-good movie from last summer where crowds of scantily-clad spring breakers were viciously attacked by a swarm of piranhas at lake Victoria?

Fiction quickly turned to a horrifying reality (though not nearly as horrifying as in Piranha 3-D) for around 100 beach goers in Brazil last weekend, Breitbart reported.

The throngs of bathers were treated at a hospital in Jose De Freitas for bites on their heels and toes from piranhas at a local beach.

Since there is nothing to challenge their position in the food chain in the northeast Brazilian waters, local environmental official Romildo Mafra told UOL Noticias the flesh-eating fish have taken to preying on humans. So far, introducing 100,000 tilapia to the local food chain as an alternative is one solution environmentalists are testing.

According the article, the attacks have been going on for two months.

[Hardrock69]

Ha...I missed this.

Yet these beach goers are still swimming in those waters.

Fucking idiots.

[Nitro Express]

My nephew just got back from there and picked up some awful stomach bug. They gave him antibiotics but that just kills the bacteria that fight what he's got. They have him eating lots of yogurt trying to see if that will help his system fight the crud off.

I've been lucky. I've never picked anything up in South America or had any problems. All I know is when you tell the doctor you are going to the Amazon basin get ready for all the shots. I was more sick from the immunizations than I was from anything else.