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Hans Kruit
Fisherman Jim DePersia thought he found a piranha in the waters of Cedar Lake, Ill., but it was something almost as nutty: A testicle-eating fish called a pacu.
DePersia, 64, hooked the bizarre fish in the lake near his home. One look at its sharp teeth and immediately he thought he`d reeled in the fearsome Amazonian species. It was a big one, weighing nearly seven pounds and measuring about 20 inches in length.
“As I came up and looked at it, I thought I knew my fish and this is a huge monster,” he told CBS Chicago.
The freaky-looking fish was actually a pacu, a cousin of the piranha that has been known to mistake human testicles for tree nuts, a staple of its diet.
In 2011, two men in New Guinea reportedly died from blood loss after a pacu devoured their treasured family jewels, the Metro reported.
Pacus are tropical fish so it's likely that DePersia's catch was dumped in the lake by a collector.
The fish invasion is happening in Europe as well. A pacu was also found near Paris in September, and there was a sighting in Sweden in August.
source: Huffpost
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