Piranha In The Thames

[Stormkhan]

Is the Thames getting warmer due to global warming? In the news recently a boat was the target of a strange fish fall. Charles Fort - gone but never forgotten!

It was a 10 cm piranha fish ... usually the vicious shoal predator of the Amazon. A warm river. A very warm river.

The usual explanation - a waterspout selectively fishing - was missing but another mundane (and I have to admit plausible) explanation was an owner who had piranhas as pets got bored with them and poured them into the Thames. A passing seagull, mindful of a free lunch, picked it up and discovering how terrible it tasted (or even realised how nasty the little sod might bite) dropped it ... onto the boat below.

Is it just me or is the sheer coincidence-factor of the explanation just as strange as the initial incident?

 

[Jerry_B]

Ah, but the mystery is whether the pirahna was actually in the Thames itself in the first place - remember that it was dropped into a boat by a gull. This doesn't mean that the gull fished the fish out of the Thames, despite what the reports seem to suggest

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

Stormkhan: Or:

e) All of the above

A pet owner disposes of his piranha into the Thames, which is then scooped up by a water spout wich dumps it somewhere where it is spotted by a seagull, which picks it up but the piranha has just enough life left in it to tear the seagulls throat out, the piranah falls out of the seagull mouth to fall at the feet of a prankster who deposits it where it was found.

Emps

 

[Stormkhan]

Now that's what I call Fortean coincidence!

 

[Anonymous]

There are FISH in the Thames!!!!!!!!