Humans being eaten by mutant fish.

[Ransom]

nice cat anyone put a name to it yet ?

 

[nishant_datta]

Photo from Thesun.com

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/weird/article1784470.ece

Locals Fear Giant Catfish Develop Taste for Live Humans After Feeding on Corpses in River Grave

Thursday, October 09, 2008

AP

File: Giant catfish in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

A fearsome fish has started killing people after feeding on human corpses, scientists fear.
They reckon that a huge type of catfish, called a goonch, may have developed a taste for flesh in an Indian river where bodies are dumped after funerals.
Locals have believed for years that a mysterious monster lurks in the water. But they think it has moved on from scavenging to snatching unwary bathers who venture into the Great Kali, which flows along the India-Nepal border.
The extraordinary creature has been investigated by biologist Jeremy Wade for a TV documentary to be shown in Britain.
“The locals have told me of a theory that this monster has grown extra large on a diet of partially burnt corpses,” Wade said. “It has perhaps got this taste for flesh by feasting on remains of funeral pyres. There will be a few freak individuals that grow bigger than the other ones and if you throw in extra food, they will grow even bigger.”
Wade discounted theories that crocodiles could be responsible for the carnage before turning his attention to goonches — among the world’s biggest freshwater fish.
He caught one which tipped the scales at 161 lbs and was nearly 6 feet long — a world record weight and far bigger than any landed before.
“If that got hold of you, there’d be no getting away,” he said.

The opening line says 'Cambodia' while the body of the story talks of an Indian river ???

 

[Perciformes]

I would buy it for 1 million if it eats people.

 

[killerfish]

There are many reports of large catfish eating human corpses but moveing on t live humans is a little we'll way far fetched

I believe that Wallago attu has been reported feeding on human corpses as we'll

 

[killerfish]

nice cat anyone put a name to it yet ?

The catfish pictured in this thread is Bagarius Yarrelli

 

[Lupin]

The opening line says 'Cambodia' while the body of the story talks of an Indian river ???

Eh? It's the tabloid notorious for wacky stories that reports it.

 

[wayne the pain]

The opening line says 'Cambodia' while the body of the story talks of an Indian river ???

It was caught on the Kali river, north India.

 

[Knowdafish]

So I could feed one Soylent Green?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

The 97 minute movie: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1296155071179146825

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

I dont believe that was eating people.

 

[Acheloos]

Yes, just again a stupid story by an even more stupid tabloid.