Posted on 03/20/2023 12:18:41 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Customs officials found six giant “highly invasive” snails with destructive potential in a traveler’s suitcase at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
The giant African snails, which were alive, are “a prohibitive organism” that have the potential to wreak havoc on the environment and cause diseases in humans. They have an affinity for devouring plants, produce, flowers, tree bark, and even the paint and stucco off houses
The gastropods also carry parasites that can lead to meningitis in humans
Nevertheless, the snails are a popular finger food in some countries, which appears to be the reason the passenger flew the snails to Detroit from Ghana, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday.
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I remember being in the Market place in the Ivory Coast. There was a lady sleeping so long her snails had escaped a good 10 feet from her.
As for the ones just discovered at Metro airport, if escaped, they would never survive our winters.
But that's not to say that whoever brought them in and likely tried to raise them as a potential food source wouldn't try to export them out of the state.....
“Customs officials found six giant “highly invasive” snails with destructive potential in a traveler’s suitcase at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.”
And they still move faster than the baggage handlers.
CC
Send them to Florida to be feed to those Burmese Pythons so they don’t eat deer and whoever else they catch.
Beat me to it!
Globalism is just wonderful, isn’t it?! Sarc.
Send whoever brought those pests into our country to Gitmo!
Snails on a plate! Oh, my...
(I’m more interested in what’s in that dress...)
someone went back to the motherland for vacay i guess.
One one would need a pound of butter and a whole garlic bulb, to make that snail tasty.
They've already had to eradicate them twice before, spending millions in doing so.
Unfortunately they're back again. It would be great if you could eat them but unfortunately you can't because of the parasites such as rat lung that they carry.
it’s good to see bernadette’s again...
They were prevalent back in the ‘60s in Hawaii.
Not quite that big, but as big as a teacup.
“We’re gonna need a bigger shaker of salt!”
Hahahahaha...I always enjoy your posts in threads. We must have watched all the same movies earlier in our lives!
When I lived in Subic Bay as a kid, there were snails all over the place. When you left the house in the morning, the damn things would be all over the sidewalk, crushed by people who couldn’t be bothered to even try avoiding them.
It was disgusting. Granted, the omnipresent wildlife (including the ever present red ants) would make short work of them.
We used to have fights with them, kids winging them at each other. They were worse than dirt clods or rocks, because if they hit you and got broken, you were slimed, too.
When I lived in Japan, they had these non-poisonous jellyfish, gazillions of them. We use to pull them out of the water, stick our fingers through their gooey bodies, and throw them at each other.
What was worse, they didn’t smell at all when you pulled them out of the water, but after their guts were exposed to the air, they developed a distinctly unpleasant odor that soap and water simply could not eradicate.
My poor mother.
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