Tue Sep 27, 6:43 AM ET
MANILA, Philippines - A routine check of a shipment at Manila airport turned
bloody when a piranha sprung up and bit one of the inspectors.
"I was checking one of the boxes when suddenly, something leaped out of it
and bit me," fisheries quarantine inspector Mario Trio told the Philippine
Daily Inquirer in a report published Tuesday.
The bite left a V-shaped wound on the inspector's finger, and the 34
piranhas in the consignment he was checking falsely declared as
"ornamental fish" from Peru were confiscated over the weekend, but died
two days later, the newspaper reported.
The Filipino consignee faces charges of illegally importing live piranhas,
punishable by up to eight years in prison and a fine, quarantine chief
Felipe Santamaria said.
Drummond Howard
Gaithersburg, Maryland
>From: "Tom Watson" <onefish2fish at comcast.net>
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>Subject: NANFA-L-- Shades of Alien
>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:02:18 -0700
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>A California native found in the UK...
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4200000/newsid_4209000/4209004.stm
>
>Tom
>West Hyblos Creek Drainage
>Washington State
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