Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I’m just imagining how this would’ve gone down in the 1980s, with no cellphone cameras and no adult supervision, and how it would’ve become an urban legend but also that kid would never really have been believed 4575
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Sorry: forgot alt text on the video—News report from a local Philadelphia station relates how a child and his father caught a piranha in a lake in a local park. The wildlife department says it must have been a pet that was dumped. 1191
Wes Warren @wes-warren.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It would've validated so many neighborhood kid's imaginations. The movie had just been released & sunfish scared crap out of a bunch, as it was! 😂 020
BreeDanielsWins @breedanielswins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026In the time before cell phone cameras, it would've just been an old-fashioned fish tale. A good one, too! 000
Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026In the 80s, we were convinced that we would lose a friend to quicksand, a group of skinny-dipping teens to piranhas at the lake, and a small town to killer bees -- all shorthand for climate change. 010
