Scorpion Stings 12-Year-Old Girl In Store

The Associated Press ^ | 5-27-2008 | The Associated Press

[Westlander]

A young shopper at a Wal-Mart in West Virginia had to watch out for more than falling prices.

A 12-year-old girl picking up a seedless watermelon from a bin was stung Sunday by a tan, 1-inch-long scorpion that had apparently stowed away in a shipment from Mexico.

[Westlander]

WalCrap. #1 importer of foreign goods to the U.S.

[theDentist]

for those interested, the little girl is fine... taken to hospital as a precaution and released.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Many years ago, my uncle owned a small grocery store in Iowa. Store employees discovered a very large tarantula in a box of bananas from S. America. They kept the spider alive in a fish tank for several months.

[sam_paine]

Oh for cripes sake. Scorpions and rattlers agitated Americans since before the Constitution. BFD.

Good lord, not EVERYTHING means WalMart is evil.

[InsensitiveConservative]

I’ve heard of Black Widow spiders in bags of grapes but have never actually seen this. I’m afraid once I got through stomping the spider my grapes would be worthless too. :)

Now I’ll have to keep my eyes open for scorpions and trantulas... what next.. camel spiders?

[Red Badger]

I assume the spider could swim well.......

[SoldierDad]

Stomped grapes = Wine?

[CholeraJoe]

Do you enjoy having fresh produce most of the year? Guess where the grapes and tomatoes you enjoy in January come from? It doesn’t matter whether it’s ChinaMart or Safeway who imports it, fresh produce in the winter comes from abroad.

[null and void]

Just stinging kids American scorpions won’t...

[Mogollon]

I got stung by a Centroides Sculpteratus (most toxic scorpion in U.S.) on the big toe. The only thing that hurt was the initial sting (felt like stepping on a thorn). My toe started tingling then went completely numb and stayed numb for two days. No bad effects but I’m a pretty big guy. Little tykes can have a much harder time from a scorpion sting obviously.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Of all the bugs we have around here, scorpions give me the biggest creeps. None grown to be very big but I still dislike the look of them.

[Westlander]

Ford Motor Company had a problem awhile back with venemous spiders coming out of pre-assembled dashboards from Mexico.

[null and void]

Too bad they’re so small. Not worth boiling and serving with drawn butter...

[donna]

It all revolves around illegal aliens and Mexico. We have created a false economy:

Miami Herald
February 28, 2008
Costs are squashing the tomato industry
BY ELAINE WALKER

Tony DiMare’s family has been growing Florida tomatoes for three generations, but he worries the industry won’t be around for his kids.

DiMare’s fears directly reflect the pressures facing growers across the state, where a $500 million industry produces more fresh-market tomatoes than anywhere in the United States.

Skyrocketing costs of everything from fuel to fertilizer cut into profits. Immigration revisions make workers harder to find. Plus, increased competition from Mexico is forcing prices down. It’s a combination that last year pushed three longtime growers out of the business. Another started shifting business to Mexico. (snip)

http://www.floridatomatogrowers.org/news/newsdetails.aspx?id=17

[DCBryan1]

Scorpion Stings 12-Year-Old Girl In Store

MSM TRANSLATION:
"Evil, Right-Wing, Racists Insect Poisons Minority Forced to Shop for Watermelon at Big Wal-Mart"

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The baddest bug around here is the brown recluse spider. One of these bit a teenage daughter of a family we know. The local hospital could not get the wound to heal and she was finally treated successfully at Mayo Clinic.

[Guenevere]

are you serious?

[Ax]

When I was a boy growing up in Detroit, I went to All Saints Elementary School, right across W. Fort from the produce terminals. We kids believed that the produce workers unloading bananas from Central America had to carry machetes with them, because if one of those big “banana spiders” bit a guy on the hand, he had to chop his hand off to keep the venom from spreading throughout the body. We believed that right up to adulthood.

[Jaded]

OMG, now we have illegal alien scorpions. What is the world coming to?

[crz]

I live right in with all these critters. The Bark Scorpion is one you dont want to get hit by. I know a fellow who has been stung twice by them and he says its like holding onto an electric fence for a few days. Black Widow bites are very painful and tarantulas are a fearful but harmless creature.
Black Widows are shy and will scurry away from you and the only way they will bite is by cornering them. I bet I kill about a hundred every year around here. I have killed about three scorpions since living here. Tarantulas? Hell, I put a plastic cup over them and slide a sheet of paper under them and carry them out and let them go as they kill small scorpions, as well as they like crickets.
One you dont want to get stung by is the Tarantula Hawk. Its one of the top two most painful stings on earth they say
Now you dont want to tangle with a Mohave rattlesnake. Thats a bad one.
Around here you use your head and pick things up with gloves on and be aware of the webs the Black Widows make.

The most dangerous thing in the desert is? Heat stroke. People are found dead with full quarts of water on them. You dont know its getting you till its nearly to late.