Deadly Spiders in Bananas

[shyvas]

http://news.sky.com/story/1163467/deadly-spiders-found-in-supermarket-bananas

Deadly spiders where found in a bunch of banans bought at Sainsbury's. The shop offered a voucher worth £10
in compensation !

 

[Blobbenstein]

are ones that have just hatched big enough to be deadly?

 

[Blobbenstein]

as for Sainsbury's offering ten quid, I can't say I blame them.

''Here, I found a spider in me bananas"
"oh dear I'm terribly sorry, here's ten quid"
"k thnx very much, bye!"

 

[shyvas]

as for Sainsbury's offering ten quid, I can't say I blame them.

''Here, I found a spider in me bananas"
"oh dear I'm terribly sorry, here's ten quid"
"k thnx very much, bye!"

I would have threatened to sue them for longlife banana fright.

 

[Amy SF]

I'll bet they hitched a ride from home.

Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and he wan' go home
Work all night on a drink a'rum
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Stack banana till thee morning come
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Day, he say day-ay-ay-o
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day,he say day, he say day
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
A beautiful bunch a'ripe banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Hide thee deadly black tarantula
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Day, he say day-ay-ay-o
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day,he say day, he say day
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day, he say day-ay-ay-o
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)

Y'all saw Arachnophobia, didn't you?

That poor lady and her family.

 

[kazyeeqen]

I have feelings about this. Feelings I doubt many people will agree with, but here they are:

-Sainsbury's paid, but they aren't the ones who grew, picked, boxed, shipped, or fumigated (know what else is deadly? Poison.) the bananas. They were just the last stop. The spiders hadn't hatched yet, so there was absolutely no way at all for them to even know about them, let alone do anything about it.

-Precautions were taken for the bananas to prevent situations like this, but to say that because this one thing happened means the precautions are not enough is an exaggeration. The western world eats truly, truly shocking amounts of bananas, and things like this almost never happen. To entirely prevent it so that it never happens ever would be impossible and also dangerous in it's own right, because it would probably mean more vigorous fumigation.

-The spiders were babies, so not dangerous. It was appropriate to get the house fumigated, just so they didn't grow up and become dangerous, but it's ridiculous to blame anyone for it and equally ridiculous to be afraid of bananas, in my view. Life is full of dangers and there is literally no way to prevent every 'bad' thing from happening. In this case no one was hurt, or even close to being hurt, and aside from being terrifying (that's legit, spider fear is instinctual) it's really a non-issue.

Also I get tired of people asking about banana spiders in my line of work. It's one of the least productive worries I think of.

 

[Amy SF]

Also I get tired of people asking about banana spiders in my line of work. It's one of the least productive worries I think of.

I didn't know people worried that much about banana spiders. I certainly don't.

 

[kazyeeqen]

I didn't know people worried that much about banana spiders. I certainly don't.

A surprising amount of people do. I'm glad you don't though, there are so many more worrisome things to worry about.

 

[SummerRain]

I've never worried about banana spiders either.

Pretty much agree with kazyeeqen. If sainsburys had genuinely only offered £10 after realising the spiders were deadly and required the house to be fumigated, I might think otherwise, but since the article says Sainsburys paid for the fumigation when they realised that it was required... I don't see a problem. Except for the family of course, for whom it is a pain, but these things do happen.

 

[Pirate]

I read about this on another website, and whilst it doesnt mention the exact location on the Sky one, this woman lives VERY close to me. This means I more than likely was in the Sainsburys in question on Saturday afternoon. You'll all be glad to know I bought a pineapple but didnt get any bananas! Seriously though, whilst it makes my skin crawl a little bit I can't say I'm particularly worried, it was a freak occurance. Spiders just seem to be the scare story-du-jour recently. Just shows that the bananas were organic

Anyway I agree that it was nice of Sainsburys to do something. They are just the retailer, it's not their fault.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

Dangerous spiders live in my garage. Who do I contact for my voucher??

 

[Everleigh]

If sainsburys had genuinely only offered £10 after realising the spiders were deadly and required the house to be fumigated, I might think otherwise, but since the article says Sainsburys paid for the fumigation when they realised that it was required... I don't see a problem. Except for the family

I think it's good that they payed for the house to be fumigated.Over here in the US not sure that would have happened.

 

[ledboots]

Australians are probably laughing their asses off at all this fuss over a few venomous spiders.

 

[Calliegirl]

I heard long ago that the bananas often come into the store with spiders, eggs and assorted creepy crawlies on them, so they should be washed. So, I wash them off before eating and don't really worry about spiders.

I've bought grapes multiple times where there was a web inside the cluster of grapes. I just eat around the grapes that are part of the web.

Now, chopped up flies inside of bagged salad, that grosses me out.

 

[Second Summer]

I never knew to worry about this before.

*adds banana spiders to huge pile of other worries*

 

[Dedalus]

I love how humans always assume that because a creature is venomous that it WILL bite and/or sting them. I can certainly understand taking precautions when such species are present, especially when they are outside their natural environment. But the amount of accelarated fear and hype around these types of stories just gets ridiculous.

I remember when a brown recluse spider bit someone and then suddenly everybody began to worry that there was one in their house - just waiting for a prime opportunity to poison them. Come on people!

 

[shyvas]

I love how humans always assume that because a creature is venomous that it WILL bite and/or sting them. I can certainly understand taking precautions when such species are present, especially when they are outside their natural environment. But the amount of accelarated fear and hype around these types of stories just gets ridiculous.

I remember when a brown recluse spider bit someone and then suddenly everybody began to worry that there was one in their house - just waiting for a prime opportunity to poison them. Come on people!

'' What kind of a pet do you have ?''

'' A hairy recluse spider !''

 

[Dedalus]

....and it's in your pants right now!

 

[RabbitLuvr]

I have quick access to hundreds of those things, and would be glad to transfer them to someone else.

 

[Pirate]

Note to self, ban bananas from next vegan package exchange