[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.

[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.

[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"

[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.

[Winged Hussar]

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

Did the scorpion press 2 for Spanish?

[reagan_fanatic]

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

[Eva]

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.

[RetSignman]

[stowed away in a shipment from Mexico]

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