INTERNET USERS, BEWARE

The Nigerian puppy scam.

(Thanks to Claire Martin who also sends this link, which we don't want to know any more about.)

Comments

[insomniac]

how much is the doggy on the website?

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

OK, if you translate the title of that link from Dutch to English, you get:

"To summon då larverna bowl till Flogsta"

And the only thing I'm summoning is Orkin.

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

Literally, I think the translation is:

"Laverne, get me a bowl so I can smash some of these flogstas!"

Eeeewwww!

[WriterDude]

I think I need to use the larvatory.

[O. the U(manity)]

I wuz gonna show MB(RH?) a close-up photo of the wurms on the bike, but she said -- and I quote --

"That's OK ..."

[KDF]

The increasingly closer closeups are very disturbing.

But *snork* at the bike.

And AAAAIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

[Straw]

That link was horrifying on so many levels. Who would pay $700 for one of these?

[Guin]

Eeeewwwww. *looks around for nearest can of Raid*

[insomniac]

'the day the larva came to Flogsta?'

"Fonsterbleck" is about what I said when I saw this...

[Dr. Doug]

That poor bicycle!
"Dagen då larverna kom till Flogsta"
Svens? Dansk? ??

[southerngirl]

conversation between myself and my 12 year old son:

me: this looks like it's gonna be disgusting.

12 yos: cool!

me: *brings up pictures*

12 yos: eeewwww!!

*disclaimer*

no sharpies needed, cuz my kids don't read the blog. I just like to show 'em the disgusting links. what? is that wrong??

O. the U - "wurms on a bike" WBAGNF somethin', right?

[Bumble]

Ewww. Are those bagworms? That's just nasty. I should send that link to my boss. (No, I'm not weird. I work at a greenhouse. We have bagworms in our trees, but I've never seen anything like that.

[Jazzzz]

Is that dog covered with worms, or just naturally ugly?

[Bumble]

)

[Wramblin' Wreck]

That could feed an entire Vietnamese village for a month! Plus, they could develop a cottage industry making neckties.

I was afraid as I scrolled down that there would be pictures of a bunch of former people sitting in deck chairs all white and fuzzy with the caterpillars crawling all over them.

[Punkin Poo]

OOhh! I think I've found my next Halloween costume! The infested tree - not the (probably infested) dog.

[Punkin Poo]

(Anybody else picturing that tree pulsating????) I heard the only way to get rid of them is to set them on fire....and they scream.....*shudder*

[Jazzzz]

Punkin' Where you gonna find enough worms to cover the, uh girls?

[bookworm]

Coulda been worse, I suppose. Someone could send $700 for a puppy to someone they've never seen and then sign for delivery--of those caterpillars who'll quickly encase their house/trees/bike/kids with webbing.

With no refunds available.

But I gotta say, there are just some things I wouldn't buy without seeing 'em first.

[Bumble]

Jazzzz~ Trust me. Those worm sacks are huge. A couple apiece would be more than enough to cover any boobs, even Punkin's. :-)

[Layzeeboy]

SNORK - Bumble said "worm sack".

*returns from pre-adolescence to semi-adulthood*

[snif]

At least the kid doesn't have to worry about his bike being stolen...

[WoosterGirl]

And they called it
Puppy Looooooove
Just because
the consumer is a big maroon.

So is there a big butterfly festival in Flogsta at the end of the season?

[Siouxie]

Ok..THAT was disturbing...

I was kinda waiting for the last picture to be of an actual person (dead or alive) covered in webbing...YUK!

[kj]

Coming soon to a theater near you: Snakes on a Plane 2: Worms on a Tree--the Legend Continues But With a Much Smaller Budget

[Jazzzz]

I'm thinking a little olive oil, freshly crushed garlic,a tbl spoon of butter, Tony Chacheres' cajun seasoning, stir in skillet until brown. Serve over flaky brown rice. Finish off with eel creme brulee'. yum!

[AlanBoss]

As someone that has been battleing a war against whiteflies in a tree for the past several months, I can only say... EWWWW!

[Biff]

And if you translate it from Swedish to English you get even closer to the truth:

"Day then caterpillar arrived at Flogsta"

I guess that means you just WAKE UP one morning in Sweden and walk out to find your town has been cocooned by these things.

[PirateBoy]

Alanboss;
Whiteflies are pretty easy to eliiminate. (Bumbles, check me if I'm wrong here, OK?). I prefer to use nicotine sulfate, but it makes your yard (And you) smell like a two day old ashtray. You can also use dish washing soap and just spray/drench the tree every couple of days, paying special attention to the underside of the leaves, where the whiteflies live. You do have to continue to spray at odd day cycles in order to get all the beasties that recently hatched, but they will eventually die a spotlessly clean death.

[pepe]

as a person suffering worm-phobia, that was gross and disturbing and strangely, i couldn't stop scrolling to the bottom of the page.

my mouse hand hates me.

[O. the U(manity)]

PB -

As a licensed and certified Commercial Applicator, I gotta tentatively go along with your recommended treatment {I do NOT have the Insecticide Endorsement] ... I'm not sure it's for real, according to Pesticide Salespersons, but it seems to werk ...

Also not sure of EPA restrictions and label requirements for annual maximum dosage and/or PPEs required during application, but dish soap is pretty much innocuous, when compared to some of the "bug killer" stuff that's out there (just ask Madge!) ... merely sayin' ...

[Punkin Poo]

Can you imagine if Isaac Newton had been sitting under a bagworm infested apple tree? Instead of gravity, he'd probably have discovered how fast he could run.

Hmmm....a world without gravity....*pictures "girls" all perky & bra-less* (kinda like Blurk does, but without the lewd remarks)

[Jazzzz]

Punkin' ...Kinda like party hats?

[O. the U(manity)]

Wurms got hats?

[24-aholic]

Off topic - does anybody watch the show Dirty Jobs? Did you see last night's episode with the geo (gooey) crabs? uagh and uck

[Brianne]

Well it's time for me to throw up violently for the next 15 minutes. yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck. And my boyfriend wonders why I can't stand bugs of any kind.