A Connecticut woman made a startling discovery as she got ready to eat the grapes she bought at a local grocery store -- a black widow spider.


The spider was taken to the Connecticut Poison Control Center and verified as a black widow.


The store has removed all bags of the grapes from its shelves as a precaution.


A spokeswoman for the grocery store chain said the grapes have been traced to California.


Employees at the health center hope to donate the spider to science.


The venom of a black widow spider is usually not fatal to humans, but a bite is very painful.

This is news?

i hope that NEVER happens to me

XxAxX said:

be more specific. what do you hope never happens to you?...getting shoved into a bag of grapes, or finding a black widow spider in a bag of fruit..?

purplerein said:

the finding a black widow spider in my food part.

I'm waiting for one of the radioactive type to come in my grapes.

TMPletz said:

SPIIIIDDDEEEEYYYYY



Spiderman was my Childhood hero..... .....

There has been accounts in the past with Tarantulas in Banana Shipments at the Supermarket here in the UK, but I don't think anyone has ever been bitten.....

Yikes!

I've got several Black Widows around my property.

MickG said:

Have you ever found any grapes in any of 'em?

TMPletz said:

Would eating semen-soaked fruit have the same effect as being bitten, a`la Spiderman?

fathermcmeekle said:

Give it a try and let us know.

I once went out with a black widow who tried to devour my grapes.
That night, I thought for sure I was a goner

TMPletz said:

Assuming we'd need a fair amount, it could take a while. I'm betting the average spider ejaculation ain't that big.

And it'll probably fall asleep afterwards aswell!

funny that the spider was sent to the Posion Control... why not just smush it?

on a related note: in the US there were 2 kinds of harmful spiders, the black widow and the brown recluse... now the just as bad brown widow spider is showing up. creepy!

also... BOO!

Illustrator said:

that must mean she was willing to swallow.

FruitToAttractBears said:

really

I suppose it was also a terror alert too.

SpisaRibb said:

well it is now that it was posted... like that guy they arrested for making up the football stadium thing... well i guess he won the contest... (it was some kind of contest as to who could make the scariest threat)

SlamGlam said:

I know, and they were all serious on CNN about if this guy was gonna be in trouble for wasting taxpayers money. I dont think they care about the money. Only about how foolish it makes them look jumping off the deep end, acting fanatical about everything.

I dont think there is ever a reason for a terror alert or ever was a reason for one. Our criminal politicians are the only reason for a terror alert.

This story is totally

FruitToAttractBears said:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

SpisaRibb said:

the government was not the ones that blew it out of proportion, they pretty much had to announce it because it was pretty wide spread. one news deal here said the FBI and Homeland Security got 1000s of reports about it... the terror lever was Not raised... they said from the beginning that it was a hoax but the were compelled to report.

SlamGlam said:

aah

I've always said those spiders were nogoodniks!

Uuugh, I HATE black widows.

My dad used to go around our house once a month or so and burn all of the ones he found

evenstar3 said:

WTF!

FruitToAttractBears said:

evenstar3 said:

He burned them???