Giant African snail forces South Florida community to quarantine

Daily Mail ^ | 21/6/23 | Melissa Koenig

[Eleutheria5]

Huge invasive pest can eat its way through stucco and street signs, puncture tires, and even cause meningitis The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced on Tuesday that a swath of Broward County would be placed under quarantine The department will spray a pesticide it says is safe for crops but will make the invasive giant African land snails susceptible to dehydration

[Eleutheria5]

If it says it wants asylum, just crush it with a big rock. Then put it on a bus to LA. Luggage compartment.

[albie]

It’s Broward County!!! Let the snails be!!

[blueunicorn6]

A Giant African Snail ate my homework.

[z3n]

Giant AFRICAN Snail?

Wait a minute! Stop the presses!

In 2020, the media called out in one loud voice that you were not allowed to use a geographic designation when identifying anything, because it’s racist!

Apparently, Africa is not off limits, but China is.

[jmacusa]

GIANT SNAILS???!!!

That’s it, we’re dead. DEAD I TELL YA!

Lock the doors! Barricade the house! Nail boards at irregular angles across the windows!!

[fidelis]

When I was stationed on Guam, these guys would regularly end up getting ground up in my lawnmower.

[BigFreakinToad]

Hmm, seems much of everything from Africa is a petulance.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The really important questions are;
Are they safe to eat?
Is there a bag limit?

Most important; How do they taste with garlic and butter? Or even...bacon.

[Oberon]

That’s it, we’re dead. DEAD I TELL YA!

Lock the doors! Barricade the house! Nail boards at irregular angles across the windows!!

EVERYBODY WALK FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

[Boogieman]

I’d say import Frenchmen to eat the snails, but then I don’t know what we could import to get rid of the Frenchmen.

[jagusafr]

Or pestilence. Or maybe a petulant pestilence! Oh noes!!

[jmacusa]

LOL!!

[BigFreakinToad]

$h!tshow works

[Jamestown1630]

I always thought it was Australia where everything wants to kill ya.

[so_real]

So nice of the snails to stay within that small box inside Broward County ... weird.

[Eleutheria5]

China has money. Africa doesn’t.

[devere]

It’s Ron Desantis’ fault! Why hasn’t Trump denounced Florida’s snail problem yet? I think Trump is slipping.

[Eleutheria5]

The invading iguanas will do for them. Them and the very large lizard that I once saw but never identified. Slender, big, long arms and legs. Froze when it saw me, then headed for the nearby canal.

[texas booster]

Well, it sure is a big'un.

[Bethaneidh]

BBQ’d escargot !