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April 30, 2005
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Awwwwww!
Posted by: Tamara Inspects Produce, for a Fee | April 30, 2005 at 05:04 AM
Celery Packaged Snakes... (you know the rest)
Posted by: qetzal | April 30, 2005 at 05:30 AM
Dave, BETCHA the celery came from India....they already lost control!
Posted by: Cynthia | April 30, 2005 at 05:40 AM
Tamara already took my comment: "Awwwwww!"
that baby snake is aDORable!!!
Posted by: Madness | April 30, 2005 at 06:18 AM
No "Awwwwwww" for me!
I say EEEEWWWWWWWW!
Posted by: Eleanor | April 30, 2005 at 07:49 AM
A little ceviche or paella made with an authentic Spanish snake might have been real tasty, but now we'll never know, will we.
Posted by: D'Artagnan | April 30, 2005 at 07:51 AM
"She said she was going to buy one of them but thought there was a dead spider inside, but it wasn't a spider it was a little snake and it was alive."
WHAT??? How the heck do you confuse a snake with a dead spider? I think I know who the customer was.
Posted by: Alex | April 30, 2005 at 08:08 AM
Sorry, Eleanor, Tamara and Madness are correct.
It's a cute widdle baby snake!
Posted by: reneviht | April 30, 2005 at 08:16 AM
ALEX...do you know (not no) how to find and link the "banana spider" story ?? East coast and West it'll make ya swear off produce stands.
Posted by: Cynthia | April 30, 2005 at 08:22 AM
My divorce song is playing on WCRE!
I can;t Fight This Feeling Anymore
It's time to bring this ship into the shore!
AMEN!
Posted by: Eleanor | April 30, 2005 at 08:26 AM
Sorry - I was overcome!
Posted by: Eleanor | April 30, 2005 at 08:27 AM
*passes Eleanor coffee and crumbcake* There,there Dear. Time heals everthing. (oh, I didn't just say that!) One ticket for the geezer bus please.
Posted by: Cynthia | April 30, 2005 at 08:36 AM
Found it! See (www.spiderzrule.com) On left side of page click on Wandering spiders. read paragraph then click on `click here'... 4 to 5 inches across people, and `very agressive'...aka Brazilian Banana spider...my son followed this one night and every post was worse. BANANA BOATS BRING TERROR IN NIGHT! Not that I'm an alarmist or anything.
Posted by: Cynthia | April 30, 2005 at 09:21 AM
Don't you just love the words of the vet?
"Vet Roland Stevens said: "I haven't looked inside its mouth, it's so tiny and fragile that I'd be slightly concerned about hurting it."
Oh, yeah. *I'D* be slightly concerned about hurting it . . . while I stomped up and down and its widdle head with my heaviest boots.
Are you people mad?
Posted by: Trystan Shout | April 30, 2005 at 09:22 AM
*sigh*.....aGgressive even...
Posted by: Cynthia | April 30, 2005 at 09:34 AM
Banana spider
Here's the even more disturbing follow-up: the hospital accidentally released the spider.
Posted by: Alex | April 30, 2005 at 09:51 AM
YEP,YEP,YEP!.....thats the story that got me goin' a couple months ago....check out spiderzrule.com site for then click on unidentifyed spiders2- the huge one on the large brick up in the corner of the porch is thot to be one (says so sw in there) HAND SIZE!..........If you really like grossing out (or have always been curious `bout this - click on the brown recluse bite photos...SORRY in advance!!!!!)
Posted by: Cynthia | April 30, 2005 at 10:13 AM
I was working in produce a few years back when me and the other guy I was working with found one of those spiders. We were moving the boxes of bananas when all the sudden we saw a huge spider on the wall. We estimated it to be nearly 4 inches across...it was the biggest spider I had ever seen in my life! We caught the thing (with much difficulty because that little bugger was fast!) and kept it in a deli container so we could try to identify it, which we never did. However, now that I look at those pictures I know what it was. Sure am glad I didn't know how poisonous it was at the time.
Posted by: Jimmy | April 30, 2005 at 10:45 AM
I'm with Trystan on this!
And for all of you who think this is a cute snake story (which is an oxymoron for sure) may I suggest a field trip to Australia (or wherever they are) to play with the cane toads!!!
Posted by: Eleanor | April 30, 2005 at 11:03 AM
I think I'll pass on the bite pics. I won't be able to go near my grocery store's produce section for a while as it is.
Posted by: Alex | April 30, 2005 at 11:26 AM
*zips in*
*looks around furtively*
Nope, no bomb he...KABOOM!!!
Posted by: Eleanor | April 30, 2005 at 11:35 AM
Alex, The Brown Recluse bite pics are a different digression-not in fruit-in backyards,sheds,garage,shoes,etc. I wouldn't have believed `em if they told me......Y'all are wusses..wussi?
Posted by: Cynthia | April 30, 2005 at 11:41 AM
.......and bomb they did....{:|........... Eleanor,...Yaright?
Posted by: Cynthia | April 30, 2005 at 01:28 PM
tastes like chicken.
Posted by: queensbee | April 30, 2005 at 02:02 PM
The spider was ID'ed as Brazilian, and yet the staff thought it was "local" ... ??? WTFBBQ? Sounds as if they've got the same problem in teaching geography over there, as we do here in the USA ...
Ackshully, I'd guess they turned the spider loose 'cuz they found out it didn't have health insurance ... oh ... socialized medicine ... um ... well, maybe the spider's visa had expired? Or its MasterCard?
Those of you who equate "small" with "cute" ... I can tell you a few places to look for trouser snakes you're just gonna LOOOOVVVVVEEE ...
Posted by: U.O | April 30, 2005 at 02:34 PM
I, too, said, "Awwww."
But if you look at the picture, and instead of thinking, "6 inches long," think 19 foot python!
It's not cute anymore?
BUT, to me it's just as cute, because I think snakes are works of art.
Posted by: Sondra | April 30, 2005 at 03:06 PM
D'ye think he's compensatin' for somethin'?
Posted by: killy | May 01, 2005 at 04:33 AM
A thirty-inch burrito. D'ye think he's compensatin' for somethin'?
Posted by: killy | May 01, 2005 at 04:34 AM
The supermarket chain said its safety team was investigating the incident...
Uh, I hesitate to ask, but why does a grocery store have a Safety Team? Does this kind of thing happen often?
Posted by: MOTW | May 02, 2005 at 05:39 AM
that is one very nasty burrito! GROSS!
Posted by: jacktheripper | May 02, 2005 at 12:03 PM
Ah, c'mon, Mon, evvabody sing:
DAY-O.....Daaaaaay-O,
Daylight come an' me wan; go hoooome...
Beautiful bunch 'o' ripe banana
--daylight come an' me wan' go home...
Hides de deadly black tarant'la,
--daylight come an' me wan' go home...
*channeling Harry Belafonte*
Posted by: Candy Tutt | May 02, 2005 at 03:17 PM