Now I know that out in the western Piedmont of North Carolina, the
rivers are a good ways from the rivers in South America.  Jerry
Melton of Gastonia caught a piranha in the Catawba River last Thursday, here is his statement:

?I really didn?t know what it was. I kept my fingers away from his
mouth, I?ll tell you that. I put a pocket knife in his mouth and it
chomped down hard on the thing.?

I thought the only piranhas in North Carolina were over on Jones Street.