Officials at the Lake Meredith National Recreation on Sunday posted on Facebook they had acquired a South American freshwater fish called a pacu – a vegetarian relative of the piranhas said to have human-like teeth – an 8.8 lbs specimen caught in the lake earlier in the day.
The post said it was clear to them that the Pacu had been a pet that was dumped after growing too large for its owner’s fishbowl… but they didn’t say what made them so sure about that. How the hell do they know the lake isn’t infested with invasive pacu preying on native plants?