Chinese Food - warning - not for the squeamish

[wombat2u2004]

See disclaimer below! (http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?p=2243110#post2243104)

Do you like Chinese Food ????
Well so does this fish....hee hee

Each year, a few people were drowning or disappearing mysteriously in Huadu's Furong Reservoir. It was not until recently, when the son of a government official went swimming, in the reservoir and was drowned, that the secret was revealed.

It is a 3 meter (9.8ft) long man-eating catfish whose head alone is 1 meter (3.3ft) wide!

After cutting up the catfish, people were surprised to find the remains of another man inside!

Swimming in the reservoir is now forbidden because it is feared another similar man-eating catfish is still lurking in the waters.

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[DJFyrewolf36]

Wouldn't want to eat that thing, probibly tasts nasty! The rule on catfish is the bigger and older it is, the more likely its going to taste like mud and garbage...and in this case, people. :eek:

I wish they could have just let the old guy live and tell people to NOT swim in the resivor :( Hes a beautiful specimen (I really love catfish...)

[Catherinedana]

I hate to spoil the fun, but that's not any kind of catfish. . .that's a whale shark and they are filter feeders, so unless the drowned people came in very tiny little pieces, this guy wouldn't have eaten them. . ..
Chinese food remains safe for the masses to consume!!! Yay!

[aTailOf2Kitties]

I'm glad someone else noticed it was a whale shark. And it's a baby one at that :(

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/giantcatfish.asp (warning, includes pics of fish guts)

Even though whale sharks grow to something like 60 feet and have huge mouths, their throat is actually very narrow. I saw a special on Tv where the Atlanta(?) aquarium had a few in their display and they had to feed them with a little bitty bucket at the end of a pole.

[DJFyrewolf36]

Thanks for the info guys. That thing looks spotty like the mud catfish we have where I grew up...never EVER saw one nearly that big...and while they do eat all manner of things humans aren't on the menu.