apparently there's one species of the bastards that gets as big as 24". in the process of figuring that out, i read a bunch of stories about small, 5" pets causing tons of pain and prolonged bleeding in adults, a big one could mess up a child's hand pretty badly i'd assume. smartt's right that most of them are smaller than the "king" piranhas that might last a few rounds with tt boy.

oh, and the little fuckers are such adaptable scavengers they'll eat fruit and nuts, they could probably make it a few days in a large public ornamental basin.

smartt needs to send me some of the large ones, preferably ill-tempered, hungry ones that I can put in all of swami's toilets since i'm his neighbor, the idea of swami being mauled by aggressive tropical fish while taking a shit is comedy that speaks to all races, genders and creeds. except for bi-britney, obviously