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lb goes on vacation and the store goes to heck

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:56 am
by ulysses5019
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/26/walmar ... pstoryview



BARBOURSVILLE, West Virginia (AP) -- One young shopper at a Wal-Mart in West Virginia had to watch out for more than falling prices.


Most of the nearly 2,000 kinds of scorpions are not dangerous to humans.

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

Megan Templeton, of Barboursville, was taken to the hospital as a precaution but later released. Her father, William Templeton, said the pain was a little worse than a bee sting.



He initially did not believe his daughter when she said she had been stung by a scorpion, but then he saw it scurry underneath a box. It was captured by Wal-Mart employees.

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 8:04 am
by littlebeast13
I've heard stories of shipments coming in with scorpions, snakes, and other warm-climate beasts stowed away in it, but the best I can do from personal experience is the pallet of Alpo dry dog food that came in during my first year when I was breaking my back in Pets. It was infested with mice.... which began scurrying all over the place after the pallet was brought out to me....

Our manager was moving a display of watermelons this morning as we left, and I warned him to watch out for the hidden scorpions (I heard about this story last night).....

lb13

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:28 am
by Bob Juch
Tarantulas in bananas are also common.

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:05 am
by Tocqueville3
Yet another reason not to shop at the Wal of Mart.

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 1:06 pm
by Estonut
Tocqueville3 wrote:Yet another reason not to shop at the Wal of Mart.
Silly me - I didn't realize WalMart was the only store selling imported fruit.

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 1:35 pm
by peacock2121
Estonut wrote:
Tocqueville3 wrote:Yet another reason not to shop at the Wal of Mart.
Silly me - I didn't realize WalMart was the only store selling imported fruit.
zing and smack!

Ouch.

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 2:38 pm
by lilclyde54
I saw this on Headline News this morning. She kept the scorpion as a pet.

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:01 pm
by ulysses5019
lilclyde54 wrote:I saw this on Headline News this morning. She kept the scorpion as a pet.

.....but it would make such good eatin'.

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:06 pm
by littlebeast13
Tocqueville3 wrote:Yet another reason not to shop at the Wal of Mart.

And here I always thought you were Southren.....

lb13