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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Florida’s python problem is fairly well known. Sooner or later some idiot will turn lose breeding pairs of Mambas and Cobras down there and they’ll really know what problems are then.
I saw Cornel Wilde chow down on one in THE NAKED PREY a few days ago. He seemed to like it.
Some people insist on bringing weird animals and exotics into the us and when bored with them dump them. I remember when piranha were first found in the Everglades a few years ago.
Anyone remember when the DICK TRACY comic strip found people on the moon who used their slashing fingernails to rip open giant escargot moon snails?
That was around the late 1960s to the 1970s.
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I saw ones that big on the North Umpqua trail along the river
of the same name in Douglass County Oregon.
There are 124 different species of slugs and snails in Oregon!
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