You know what I almost never associate with Pennsylvania? Sound elections and, well, piranhas.
And yet, when 8-year-old Seamus Coffey and his dad Michael went fishing at Ridley Park Lake...
From WGAL 8:
'He thought it was a bass at first because we usually catch little catfish,' Michael Coffey said. 'So he's reeling it, reeling it, reeling it and then when I saw it, what did I say? I said, "Slow down, dude, you might lose it." This looks like something we haven't caught before, like a big bluegill or something.'
‘I'm reeling it in and I'm thinking it's a bass,' Seamus said.
‘He got it on the ground and I was like, "It's a bluegill, I don't know what this is," and he said "it's a piranha,"' Michael Coffey said.
When asked how he knew it was a piranha, Seamus said,
Because I watch YouTube.
Sure enough, it was a red-bellied piranha.
And you thought YouTube was just another idiot box!
Officials with Pennsylvania's Fish and Boat Commission said this was likely someone's pet until things got out of control at home. It was also explained that the person likely believed they were doing the right thing by placing a piranha in the lake. 'Some of our folks have determined that this is certainly a species of piranha,' Mike Parker with the Fish and Boat Commission said. ‘And that person no longer wanted their pet and then unlawfully introduced it into the waterway.'
Ultimately, the piranha was killed to protect the other wildlife in the lake, and the intruding fish was fed to a snapping turtle.
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