Piranha drama: boy, 8, hooks fearsome exotic fish in Pennsylvania lake
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Wed, 12 August 2026
1 report- Index.hr (Croatia)16:05
OSMOGODIŠNJI dječak u Pennsylvaniji ulovio je piranu.
Thu, 13 August 2026
2 reports- The Guardian World13:34first to report
South American fish with razor-toothed jaws was probably released by someone who owned it as a pet, officials say An eight-year-old boy fishing for bass in Pennsylvania was stunned to catch something more associated with the Amazon – and countless horror movies – than the rolling landscape of the eastern US. Seamus Coffey, who was fishing with his father Michael in a lake near Philadelphia, hauled in a large red-bellied piranha, complete with the razor-toothed jaws that the fearsome breed is so...
- wmgk.com13:59
A fishing trip for a young boy and his family turned out to be something no one had expected. A Delaware County father and son from Folsom caught what appeared...