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Giant invasive snails found in luggage at Detroit Metropolitan Airport
Detroit Metro Times ^ | 3/20/23 | Steve Neavling

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at metrotimes.com ...


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To: Hot Tabasco

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.


21 posted on 03/20/2023 2:19:59 PM PDT by MachIV
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To: DallasBiff

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.


22 posted on 03/20/2023 3:28:53 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Larry Lucido

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.


23 posted on 03/20/2023 3:36:48 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: DallasBiff

Xi turns light out


24 posted on 03/20/2023 4:19:02 PM PDT by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Who could forget?


25 posted on 03/20/2023 4:38:52 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Blueway
"...but as big as a teacup."

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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!


26 posted on 03/20/2023 5:32:01 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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