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Couple poisoned after eating cut-price supermarket grapes tainted with spider venom
The Daily Mail ^ | 16th July 2008 | Luke Salkeld

Posted on 07/16/2008 1:50:49 PM PDT by Daffynition

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Spideees!!!


A pregnant false widow spider - similar to the one which the couple found in a bag of grapes

1 posted on 07/16/2008 1:50:49 PM PDT by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition

Moral of the story? ALWAYS wash fruits and veggies before ingesting them.


2 posted on 07/16/2008 1:52:33 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Catch the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon film at a time!)
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To: Daffynition

So, they were eating the grapes without washing them first? What morons.


3 posted on 07/16/2008 1:52:39 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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To: Daffynition

I see they manage to claim this was caused by global warming.


4 posted on 07/16/2008 1:53:30 PM PDT by xjcsa (Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
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To: Daffynition

My cousin worked in a supermarket when he was a kid, and found black widows in the apple boxes several times.


5 posted on 07/16/2008 1:53:39 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: Daffynition

Global Warming..causes spider bites...


6 posted on 07/16/2008 1:53:53 PM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: Daffynition

This is amazing. UK takes in Morrocan grapes with poison, but Washington apples, the safest in the world have to go through hoops and two-steps to be sent to UK. Go figure!!!


7 posted on 07/16/2008 1:54:12 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Tamar1973
Organic food is risky food. I'll live to be 100 thanks to pesticides, preservatives, growth hormones, and other glorious man-made chemicals.

AAAAAAHH! I love the smell of Alar in the morning!

8 posted on 07/16/2008 1:55:15 PM PDT by keithtoo (Why aren't the Republicans running a presidential candidate this year?)
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"Mr and Mrs Williams, of Barry in Wales, have become the UK's tenth and eleventh victims of false widows which experts say are spreading thanks to global warming."

Well, we knew THAT was coming, didn't we?

Btw, I agree with the previous posters - it's pretty dumb not to wash fruit or vegetables before eating, particularly one that doesn't have a disposable peel.

9 posted on 07/16/2008 1:55:34 PM PDT by DemforBush
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To: keithtoo

I didn’t say “eat organic”, I said wash your food.


10 posted on 07/16/2008 1:56:21 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Catch the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon film at a time!)
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But Rose added: ''They've offered a £2 refund, which is a bit cheeky considering we were half scared to death.'

They should have complained that the grapes were not "halal", and that they were offended.

The dhimmis at Tesco would have paid off their mortgage for that.

11 posted on 07/16/2008 1:56:44 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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I hate it when I find grapes in a fresh bag of spiders. What is the world coming to?

If the grapes had been from China there would be lead involved.


12 posted on 07/16/2008 1:57:25 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running. FREE LAZAMATAZ)
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“victims of false widows which experts say are spreading thanks to global warming.”

BullStalin.

The incidents occur because of globalism and shoddy customs inspections.


13 posted on 07/16/2008 2:00:02 PM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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"... Mr Williams, 52, and his 45-year-old wife had already started munching on the two £1 bags of fruit when they noticed that something was moving inside."

(*Hitchcock violins*): SKREEK! SKREEK! SKREEK!

14 posted on 07/16/2008 2:00:35 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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A quick rummage revealed that two spiders, one alive and one dead, had already made a meal out of the Moroccan-grown grapes.

Since when do spiders eat grapes?

And since when do they spit venom on inanimate objects?

And since when does a rather complex organic venom that is normally injected survive contact with digestive acids and enzymes?

My BS alarm is sounding....

15 posted on 07/16/2008 2:02:24 PM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: Daffynition
I once picked a beautiful bunch a' ripe banana (at least eight hand bunch!).

Little did I know it hide the deadly black tarantula.

Fortunately, the tally man had great worker's comp. coverage.

16 posted on 07/16/2008 2:02:35 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

"I hate it when I find grapes in a fresh bag of spiders. What is the world coming to?"

17 posted on 07/16/2008 2:03:01 PM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: steve-b

Since they have experts citing globull warming as the cause, the United States will be fined $45million a day until the global warming problem is halted.


18 posted on 07/16/2008 2:04:19 PM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: TheWasteLand

I found a tarantula in a box of Boo Berrys once.


19 posted on 07/16/2008 2:04:43 PM PDT by Krankor (N)
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To: weegee

False, but Accurate!


20 posted on 07/16/2008 2:05:12 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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