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Anyone watch that show Life Without People? Nature's got it all under control!
Anyone watch that show Life Without People? Nature's got it all under control!
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Didn't a woman get bitten by a snake in a plant at a wally world last year as well?
You know, there are other critters on this rock besides us.
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IIRC, hasn't there been at least two attacks at Wally-World by snakes, usually in the garden center? I'm to tired and wet from a storm to search myself.
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@StruckBySmoothCriminal_GitEmSteveDave: You can hardly consider this incident as a snake \"attack\"--the guy grabbed the creature, clearly ignorant of how to do it, and the snake objected. As I suspect you would if somebody picked you up by the tail and tried to swing you into a bucket.
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Did you hear about all of those mosquitoes that bit all of those campers at that campsite? Along with the black flies? It's nature people. It's bound to happen - usually when we least suspect it because it's tricky like that. :)
It's the sharks at my local bank that have me concerned.
There was a lovely lizard in the asparagus at the local Meijer. Poor thing looked very confused.
Here in suburban Minneapolis, my family found a black widow spider in our grapes from Rainbow Foods a few years back. The store manager was not apologetic, nor did he even seem surprised. He said something like, \"Oh, we usually find those in the bananas.\" (By the way, this was before Rainbow Foods was purchased by Roundy's.)
Almost every Home Depot has a few birds flying around in it.
I once took a photo of a bird next to one of the freezers in Costco.
And I don't know how they keep the birds out of the Costco in Simi Valley, Cal.
The food stand is outside & the birds are everywhere there.
The entrance is right near the seats, plus there are signs all over saying not to feed the birds!
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@Greasy Thumb Guzik: you'd think they'd try to capitalize on it by selling birdseed... tuppence a bag
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\"This week, a small (non-poisonous) snake bit a man in an Illinois Walmart...\"
Psst! It's \"nonvenomous.\" :) Good rule of thumb: if it's injected, it's venom; if it's ingested, it's poison.
So, a rattlesnake has to inject its venom to do some damage, while you have to ingest a poisonous mushroom to feel its effects. Poison dart frogs are so named because their skin is covered in a poisonous substance, which can be harmful if consumed or even just touched.
The more you know...! ;D
@catastrophegirl - just add kittens: It's still venom. Coral snakes don't have long fangs like a rattlesnake, but they're still capable of injecting their venom if they manage to penetrate the skin. They just might have to chew on ya a bit first. ;)
Several months ago, perhaps last fall, a local Kroger's store here in WV had a scorpion sting a child. It was apparently in one of those pallet boxes of watermellons. Funny, but earlier today I was at a Kroger & saw a big hand made sign above 2 large pallet boxes of watermelons that said \"watermelon patch\" and I thought to my self more like \"scorpion patch\"!
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A buddy of mine works at Target, and one day a deer wandered in through the automatic doors and couldn't figure out how to leave.
I kinda wish I'd been there for that.
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I had a whitetail deer gore me in Sears while I was getting a replacement water filter for my refridgerator.
@HiPwr: Does that mean you ran into the plastic display model?