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Scorpion Stings 12-Year-Old Girl In Store
The Associated Press ^ | 5-27-2008 | The Associated Press

Posted on 05/27/2008 1:29:53 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: mexico; scorpion; walmart
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Matthias Jabs!!!!!!!!!!!!!


21 posted on 05/27/2008 2:22:42 PM PDT by Maverick68 (w)
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To: Guenevere

Sure am. World Headquaters for Ford truck/suv/Focus assembly is a mile away from me. Those that still have a job their (due to downsizing) are my neighbors. White collar and blue collar.


22 posted on 05/27/2008 2:35:34 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Westlander

How did they handle it?


23 posted on 05/27/2008 2:45:44 PM PDT by Guenevere (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.)
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To: Westlander

“a tan, 1-inch-long scorpion that had apparently stowed away in a shipment from Mexico.”

Did the scorpion press 2 for Spanish?


24 posted on 05/27/2008 2:55:53 PM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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To: Westlander

Oh, great - now Wal-Mart’s trying to drive all the Mom & Pop scorpion dealers out of business.


26 posted on 05/27/2008 3:10:59 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Average White Conservative)
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To: Guenevere

Parts are ‘gas chambered’ with insecticide now, and shrink wrapped in plastic prior to railroad shipment.


27 posted on 05/27/2008 3:14:58 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Westlander

I never shopped in Walmart until the unions went on their jihad against them. Now, I shop there all the time. You can get some very good deals on toiletries and cleaning supplies.


28 posted on 05/27/2008 3:19:38 PM PDT by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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To: sam_paine

It made new because it’s more unusual as opposed to being in Wal-mart. Who expects this to happen shopping for food in any store?

And yes, our forefathers and such had to deal with things like this, but I would hasten to suggest they were pretty much on perpetual alert for anything that could harm them. Most people aren’t thinking about having to anticipate scorpions and hairy spiders in the produce bin at the grocery store.


29 posted on 05/27/2008 3:37:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Westlander

[stowed away in a shipment from Mexico]

...or brought in by a money hungry father.


30 posted on 05/27/2008 3:52:29 PM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: Secret Agent Man
Who expects [scorpions and hairy spiders] shopping for food in any store?

I live on a ranch. I see more roaches and rodents etc in the city than I do out here where the spiders and the snakes keep them in check!

Americans have become a bunch of fata$$ sissies.

31 posted on 05/27/2008 4:16:26 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine

This summer there are nearly no wasps, no mosquitoes. This is due to the finch feeder on the porch. Don’t know how finches can eat wasps but they are acrobatic and can fly rings around the insects and pick them out of the air.


32 posted on 05/27/2008 4:23:21 PM PDT by RightWhale (You are reading this now)
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To: RightWhale
This summer there are nearly no wasps, no mosquitoes. This is due to the finch feeder on the porch.

I don't know where you are, but it's not just finches here!

There have been surprisingly few skeeters here in Texas this spring, too. I suspect the long dry spell and late cool weather helped beat them down. Additonally, I noticed that the mud daubers were late, but once they hit this month, they're in force!

33 posted on 05/27/2008 5:44:51 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine

I agree with you but this is not the example that proves that.

A huge welfare state, people dying because they are 400 pounds overweight and their bodies cant support themselves, getting pissy because they can’t get into a nightclub, people who think the world ends if the cable goes out - all valid reasons.

Being stung by a scorpion in the grocery store and getting some ER treatment for it, not a good example of being a sissy. Sometimes the small things have a deadlier poison than the big things.


34 posted on 05/27/2008 6:36:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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