Thursday, April 5, 2007

Reason #28 to never swim in the Congo river...


I think that is probably WAY worse than the parasites that swim up your urethra when you take a leak while standing in the water...

5 comments:

MJB said...

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

What on earth is that, and what can I do not never, EVER, meet one?

Dadeo said...

Did you say that this beast tried to swim up your urethra? Wow, that would really hurt.

I'm not boverred.

Elise said...

dad, you're killing the bovvered.

Jannell said...

That's sick!!! I'm never going in ANY river again!

Josh said...

that is a Goliath Tiger fish.

And look! you can go fishing for them!
http://www.nwalesflyfishingschool.com/fishing_holidays_congo_africa.shtml


No, the urethra parasite is a slightly smaller fish...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candir%C3%BA

... and re-reading the description of the Candiru, I think it would be much worse than the Tiger fish.