DeusExMachina
I am not a nice person.
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Piranhas are like quicksand.
I had an unhealthy fear of both as a child because I assumed they were everywhere.
But will probably never actually see either in my lifetime.
Funny story time.
I've only met my older stepbrother (my dad's son from his first of six marriages) once. The one time I did, I noticed that he was missing the tip of his index finger on his right hand down to the knuckle. So, being the inquisitive 12 year old I was, I asked my big sister (his biological sister, my step, but she likes me more than she does him) what had happened.
Turns out that in the state of Florida, it's perfectly legal to own a piranha. My stepbrother had two of them in this huge tank at his house. He was, let's say under the influence (he had smoked 4.4 marijuanas and drunk a lot of beer lol), was showing the piranhas off to his friends. Their usual food was chunks of raw meat, on that particular day it was chicken. He tosses the chicken into the tank, fish don't move. Tosses a little more chicken into the tank, fish don't move. Started poking at the chicken to get more blood in the water.......the fish moved faster than he did, and kept the tip of his finger in the tank with them.