Black Widow In Grapes: Massachusetts Woman Discovers Venomous Spider In Grapes
Yarmouth, MA – A Massachusetts woman got quite a scare last week when opened up a bag of grapes she bought from a local supermarket and found a black widow spider hiding inside.
According to CBS Boston, Laurie Kaiser found the deadly arachnid with the characteristic red hour glass mark on its abdomen in a bag of Sunview organic red seedless grapes from California.
Kaiser told reporters the black widow managed to survive five days in the refrigerator — during which time she and her husband had been eating the fruit — before it was discovered.
“I’d been opening the bag, snipping off a clump and closing the bag back up,” Kaiser said. “I washed each clump before we ate it. In fact, it was as I was getting ready to rinse off a clump when I saw the spider.”
After discovering the venomous spider, Laurie says she captured the insect in a plastic container and brought it back to the grocery store along with the grapes.
“I figured they’d want to know. It’s good to get the word out to remind people to inspect and wash their grapes before eating,” Kaiser told the Cape Cod Times. “I woke up thinking about some child reaching into a bag of unwashed grapes and getting bit by a spider.”
Fox News reports Shaw’s supermarket gave Kaiser a refund and said they would notify the distributor about the spider.
“We can confirm that a customer did return the grapes that may have contained a spider,” Steve Sylven of Shaws said in a statement. “Per our protocols, we refunded her money and will be notifying our supplier of the situation. At Shaw’s, the safety of our customers is of utmost importance to us. We use reputable suppliers and while rare, occasionally these situations occur, which is why we encourage our customers to always wash and inspect their produce.”
Surprisingly, Laurie Kaiser wasn’t the only person who found a deadly arachnid hiding in a bunch of grapes in recent days.
According to the Christian Post, James Sylvia of Rhode Island also found a black widow while his wife and 1-year-old son were washing grapes in the kitchen sink on Thursday, November 15.
More on Sylvia’s black widow incident in the video below:
Tags : black widow, Black Widow In Grapes, black widow spider in grapes, James Sylvia, Laurie Kaiser, Laurie Kaiser black widow, shaw's black widow in grapes, shaw's supermarket, Yarmouth black widow
Posted: November 21, 2012
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Nov 21, 2012
Markings are in the belly not the back.
Nov 21, 2012
ugh, I effing hate spiders.
Nov 21, 2012
And, while bite would be painful, not deadly. (Of course there are always exceptions.)
Nov 21, 2012
Linda Womble Thats not true. They have killed many people. Young Children and Older Adults especially.. Please think about what you post next time…
Nov 21, 2012
Exactly why you should wash your produce when you get it home
Nov 21, 2012
All I can say is that is super creepy!
Nov 21, 2012
A lady I used to work with was bit by one and was hospitalize for three weeks. Black widows are NO joke.
Nov 21, 2012
We have them by the hundreds down here in north carolina. They make sort of messy looking webs and sometimes no webs at all and just hide in stuff. I find them all the time in my garage under things, in things you wouldn't think about. they prefer dark places. If they bite you, you may not die if in good health but the venom will destroy all the tissue around the area of the bite all the way down to bone. We also have copper head snakes by the hundreds and they are no joke either and they are everywhere down here. Bite from a copperhead will destroy tissue and swell up your whole leg.
Nov 21, 2012
THIS IS NEWS? I see Black Widows all the time in the SF Bay Area….nothing new…
Nov 21, 2012
Lol. I hate spiders
Nov 21, 2012
Apparently so does America…lol….those border-hopping spiders with their wonderful drugs that we love…
lol
Nov 21, 2012
I would of had a stroke !!!!!
Nov 21, 2012
LOL
Nov 21, 2012
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**อยากลดน้ำหนัก..แต่กินยาแล้วกดประสาท! มึนหัว! นอนไม่หลับ! แถมหยุดกินก้อกลับมาอ้วนเหมือนเดิม!
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Nov 21, 2012
Sunview organic red seedless grapes. so genetically engineered grapes that have not been sprayed with pesticides have spiders and bugs in them? go figure! what's the point of eating something labeled "organic" if they've been genetically engineered? you can wash off the chemical pesticides for the most part, but it's hard to wash off that genetic engineering…
Nov 22, 2012
Black Widows, or even Brown Widows for that matter, are not nearly as vicious as everyone wants to assume they are.
Nov 22, 2012
k.coates23 Its been many years since a death…