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VENEZUELA - EATING PIRANHAS

Noah Wall (a.k.a. one-man band Jukeboxer, as seen in our Education Issue) just got back from a heavy experience at a jungle eco-resort in Venezuela. "Heavy" as in he fished for piranhas and then had them cooked up on the spot. Apparently it's really dangerous. "You just throw a string with bait on it into the water and pull. There are hundreds of them in there," Noah says. "If you fall into the water, you're a goner."

I kind of call bullshit on piranhas, but Noah insists. "It's totally true," he says. "Piranhas will devour you in seconds, and they have these killer rays that spike you and then the spikes expand before they pull them back out. It destroys the bone structure of your foot. Anyway, piranha is delicious!"

Noah also saw a capybara. In case you didn't know, that's the biggest rodent in the world. "Poachers love these things," Noah says. "The meat is sold at really good prices on the black market. Apparently it tastes like fish and beef."
Here's a capybara, photographed by Noah.