Posted on 05/27/2008 1:29:53 PM PDT by Westlander
A young shopper at a Wal-Mart in West Virginia had to watch out for more than falling prices.
A 12-year-old girl picking up a seedless watermelon from a bin was stung Sunday by a tan, 1-inch-long scorpion that had apparently stowed away in a shipment from Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at clickondetroit.com ...
for those interested, the little girl is fine... taken to hospital as a precaution and released.
Oh for cripes sake. Scorpions and rattlers agitated Americans since before the Constitution. BFD.
Good lord, not EVERYTHING means WalMart is evil.
I’ve heard of Black Widow spiders in bags of grapes but have never actually seen this. I’m afraid once I got through stomping the spider my grapes would be worthless too. :)
Now I’ll have to keep my eyes open for scorpions and trantulas... what next.. camel spiders?
I assume the spider could swim well.......
Stomped grapes = Wine?
Do you enjoy having fresh produce most of the year? Guess where the grapes and tomatoes you enjoy in January come from? It doesn’t matter whether it’s ChinaMart or Safeway who imports it, fresh produce in the winter comes from abroad.
Just stinging kids American scorpions won’t...
I got stung by a Centroides Sculpteratus (most toxic scorpion in U.S.) on the big toe. The only thing that hurt was the initial sting (felt like stepping on a thorn). My toe started tingling then went completely numb and stayed numb for two days. No bad effects but I’m a pretty big guy. Little tykes can have a much harder time from a scorpion sting obviously.
Of all the bugs we have around here, scorpions give me the biggest creeps. None grown to be very big but I still dislike the look of them.
Ford Motor Company had a problem awhile back with venemous spiders coming out of pre-assembled dashboards from Mexico.
Too bad they’re so small. Not worth boiling and serving with drawn butter...
It all revolves around illegal aliens and Mexico. We have created a false economy:
Miami Herald
February 28, 2008
Costs are squashing the tomato industry
BY ELAINE WALKER
Tony DiMare’s family has been growing Florida tomatoes for three generations, but he worries the industry won’t be around for his kids.
DiMare’s fears directly reflect the pressures facing growers across the state, where a $500 million industry produces more fresh-market tomatoes than anywhere in the United States.
Skyrocketing costs of everything from fuel to fertilizer cut into profits. Immigration revisions make workers harder to find. Plus, increased competition from Mexico is forcing prices down. It’s a combination that last year pushed three longtime growers out of the business. Another started shifting business to Mexico. (snip)
http://www.floridatomatogrowers.org/news/newsdetails.aspx?id=17
MSM TRANSLATION:
"Evil, Right-Wing, Racists Insect Poisons Minority Forced to Shop for Watermelon at Big Wal-Mart"
are you serious?
When I was a boy growing up in Detroit, I went to All Saints Elementary School, right across W. Fort from the produce terminals. We kids believed that the produce workers unloading bananas from Central America had to carry machetes with them, because if one of those big “banana spiders” bit a guy on the hand, he had to chop his hand off to keep the venom from spreading throughout the body. We believed that right up to adulthood.
OMG, now we have illegal alien scorpions. What is the world coming to?
I live right in with all these critters. The Bark Scorpion is one you dont want to get hit by. I know a fellow who has been stung twice by them and he says its like holding onto an electric fence for a few days. Black Widow bites are very painful and tarantulas are a fearful but harmless creature.
Black Widows are shy and will scurry away from you and the only way they will bite is by cornering them. I bet I kill about a hundred every year around here. I have killed about three scorpions since living here. Tarantulas? Hell, I put a plastic cup over them and slide a sheet of paper under them and carry them out and let them go as they kill small scorpions, as well as they like crickets.
One you dont want to get stung by is the Tarantula Hawk. Its one of the top two most painful stings on earth they say
Now you dont want to tangle with a Mohave rattlesnake. Thats a bad one.
Around here you use your head and pick things up with gloves on and be aware of the webs the Black Widows make.
The most dangerous thing in the desert is? Heat stroke. People are found dead with full quarts of water on them. You dont know its getting you till its nearly to late.
Matthias Jabs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sure am. World Headquaters for Ford truck/suv/Focus assembly is a mile away from me. Those that still have a job their (due to downsizing) are my neighbors. White collar and blue collar.
How did they handle it?
“a tan, 1-inch-long scorpion that had apparently stowed away in a shipment from Mexico.”
Did the scorpion press 2 for Spanish?
I don’t have to go to Wal-Mart for scorpions. I vacuumed up one in my house a while back. Rattlesnakes, tarantulas, black widow spiders and centipedes all have made house visits.
The absolute worst was the centipede. I get chills just thinking about it.
Oh, great - now Wal-Mart’s trying to drive all the Mom & Pop scorpion dealers out of business.
Parts are ‘gas chambered’ with insecticide now, and shrink wrapped in plastic prior to railroad shipment.
I never shopped in Walmart until the unions went on their jihad against them. Now, I shop there all the time. You can get some very good deals on toiletries and cleaning supplies.
It made new because it’s more unusual as opposed to being in Wal-mart. Who expects this to happen shopping for food in any store?
And yes, our forefathers and such had to deal with things like this, but I would hasten to suggest they were pretty much on perpetual alert for anything that could harm them. Most people aren’t thinking about having to anticipate scorpions and hairy spiders in the produce bin at the grocery store.
[stowed away in a shipment from Mexico]
...or brought in by a money hungry father.
I live on a ranch. I see more roaches and rodents etc in the city than I do out here where the spiders and the snakes keep them in check!
Americans have become a bunch of fata$$ sissies.
This summer there are nearly no wasps, no mosquitoes. This is due to the finch feeder on the porch. Don’t know how finches can eat wasps but they are acrobatic and can fly rings around the insects and pick them out of the air.
I don't know where you are, but it's not just finches here!
There have been surprisingly few skeeters here in Texas this spring, too. I suspect the long dry spell and late cool weather helped beat them down. Additonally, I noticed that the mud daubers were late, but once they hit this month, they're in force!
I agree with you but this is not the example that proves that.
A huge welfare state, people dying because they are 400 pounds overweight and their bodies cant support themselves, getting pissy because they can’t get into a nightclub, people who think the world ends if the cable goes out - all valid reasons.
Being stung by a scorpion in the grocery store and getting some ER treatment for it, not a good example of being a sissy. Sometimes the small things have a deadlier poison than the big things.
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