12-year-old West Virginia girl stung by scorpion at store

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12-year-old W.Va. girl stung by scorpion at store - Yahoo! News

(LAWSUIT!!!)

One young shopper at a Wal-Mart in West Virginia had to watch out for more than falling prices.
A 12-year-old girl picking up a seedless watermelon from a bin was stung Sunday by a tan, inch-long scorpion that had apparently stowed away in a shipment from Mexico.
Megan Templeton, of Barboursville, was taken to the hospital as a precaution but later released. Her father, William Templeton, said the pain was a little worse than a bee sting.
He initially didn't believe his daughter when she said she had been stung by a scorpion, but then he saw the critter scurry underneath a box. It was captured by Wal-Mart employees.
Most of the nearly 2,000 kinds of scorpions are not dangerous to humans.
Richard Coyle, senior director of international affairs for Wal-Mart, said store employees believe the problem was with a single shipment of watermelons.
"We are very concerned," he said. "This is a very rare incident. When I spoke with the store manager, she said in her 17 years she had never heard of something like this."

[ManxMouse]

Big deal, shit happens. Being 12 and all, she probably deserved it anyway.

[Fluffy]

Scorpions can hitch rides on trucks just as well as spiders and other critters.

[Cravindirt]

I don't see a reason for a lawsuit, how were they to prevent it?

[sweetness]

Just the other night I found and killed a scorpion in my little girl's room..... EEK!!

[WhateverLolaWants]

A scorpion like insect (Didn't get a great look at it and there wasn't exactly an entomologist at the hospital) stung my son when he was two and it swelled to about two inches in diameter and gave him a fever of 104.

Now I could have sued the park where this occurred, but I realized, "Wait...there are plants here...there is nature her...I'm a sane person. Shit happens."

Produce attracts bugs, sometimes not the nicest ones...jeebus.