# Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [February 20, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141 "2004-02-20T03:04:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mdipi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mdipi/32/49_2.png) [@mdipi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mdipi)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141/1 "2004-02-20T03:04:23Z")
in London that is. [http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0002/20040219/1508589106.htm](http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0002/20040219/1508589106.htm) > LONDON (Reuters) - Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water; a ferocious, carnivorous South American Piranha has been fished from London’s River Thames, the Environment Agency said on Thursday. tehehe ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141/2 "2004-02-20T03:09:27Z")
So thats what bit me the other day. I was wondering about that! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141/3 "2004-02-20T03:58:44Z")
> Experts were quick to reassure Londoners they need not fear marauding shoals of meat-eating fish. > Such great command over the English language! They turn a crazy random happening into something worth listening to. I also love the speculations on how it got there 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141/4 "2004-02-20T09:41:52Z")
Dipi, have you _seen_ the river Thames? It’s _never_ safe to go in it, pirahna’s or not… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141/5 "2004-02-20T11:51:07Z")
cool theres Piranha in the river thames… (reminds me of when i put my fingers in a Piranha tank, bloody things arnt what they make them out to be like they swam away) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141/6 "2004-02-20T12:00:52Z")
So that’s how you spell Piranha! 🙂 Can we spell kirupa the same way? Like Kirupha :} ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141/7 "2004-02-20T12:24:37Z")
teheh phat. kit: yeah i seen them, but i thought it was just cause it was winter time…lol i will see them in the coming march 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141/8 "2004-02-20T13:50:14Z")
Nah, it’s like that all year round. 🙂 Just ask anyone who’s lived in London. Like when me, Asphalt and Soul met up, we were by the river and it was a very hot sunny day. Soul said it might be nice to jump in the river and we just went “no bloody way”… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141/9 "2004-02-20T16:42:02Z")
why Kit? what’s wrong with Thames? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141/10 "2004-02-20T17:19:49Z")
So if do the piranhas in the river Thames have crooked teeth? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-in-the-water/102141/11 "2004-02-20T17:55:18Z")
> \*Originally posted by Phat7 \* > \*\*why Kit? what’s wrong with Thames? \*\* The Humber makes the Thames look like a very inviting paddling pool