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Giant African snail forces South Florida community to quarantine
Daily Mail ^
| 21/6/23
| Melissa Koenig
Posted on 06/21/2023 11:36:02 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Boogieman
I don’t think Frenchmen would be up to the task. You’re gonna need Cajons for this.
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posted on
06/21/2023 12:20:36 PM PDT
by
CtBigPat
(There are people in this world who would kill you for a dollar, and the worst wear business suites. )
To: jmacusa
To: texas booster
Gary! I've found you!
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posted on
06/21/2023 12:25:56 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
To: Eleutheria5
For a time , I had these parts invading my tropical property, years ago.I used to hunt them with pellet pistols. Good fun! Somehow they disappeared. Haven’t seen a one in years . Very odd.
To: LeoWindhorse
To: Eleutheria5
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posted on
06/21/2023 12:30:02 PM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
Bees, and Snails, and Teenz oh my
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posted on
06/21/2023 12:38:16 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
To: jagusafr
The pestilent results are pernicious where ever afriekka is interjected .
The petulance, , just the nature of the beast
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posted on
06/21/2023 12:38:19 PM PDT
by
Recompennation
(Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
To: cuban leaf
Nattering nabobs of nabobs nattering is naturally nattering with nature.
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posted on
06/21/2023 12:44:57 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
To: jmacusa; Oberon
Surely our civilization is utterly doomed because of this - eventually...
To: Eleutheria5
If you’ve never tried it, pour salt on a slug. They hate that.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Did you hear about the high school football player drinking beer and found a slug and ate it.
He’s a vegetable now, seriously.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
They taste like hospital food:
Giant African land snails can carry dangerous parasites.
The rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) uses snails to complete its life cycle. The adult worms both live and reproduce inside common rat species, such as black, brown, and cotton rats. The worm’s larvae end up in the host mammal’s poop and are eventually excreted. The feces are then eaten by scavenging snails. If one of the worm-carrying snails is later eaten by a rodent, the cycle continues.
A 2015 survey of 50 L. fulica snails collected in Miami found that 18 of them harbored rat lungworms. The worms can cause eosinophilic meningitis in humans who eat the snails, either as part of a meal or by accidentally ingesting parts of the snails on grocery store produce. The illness can be fatal.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/653017/giant-african-land-snail-facts
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posted on
06/21/2023 1:04:34 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
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posted on
06/21/2023 2:10:23 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Perhaps we should be less concerned with who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire.)
To: PIF
Woof. I’ll stick with fried clams from New England.
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posted on
06/21/2023 2:11:25 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Perhaps we should be less concerned with who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire.)
To: Eleutheria5
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posted on
06/21/2023 2:12:15 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Eleutheria5
Waiting for Biden to declare a health emergency and require the snails to where masks....as well as humans in the quarantine area.
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posted on
06/21/2023 2:19:06 PM PDT
by
RouxStir
(No Peein' in the Gene Pool )
To: RouxStir
If Fauci opens his mouth, throw a snail in it.
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posted on
06/21/2023 2:20:57 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
To: jmacusa
Too late: the giant snails have already taken over the US Capitol.
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posted on
06/21/2023 2:22:05 PM PDT
by
RouxStir
(No Peein' in the Gene Pool )
To: texas booster
My son would ask, “What are we going to name him?”
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posted on
06/21/2023 2:26:17 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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