This Sh*t Is Bananas Part Deux: Spiders and Blow
- Posted by: Patrick James
- on March 24, 2009 at 1:31 pm
The banana sections of super markets are some zany places. Last week, you might remember, the world’s deadliest spider traveled from Honduras to Tulsa, Oklahoma, lying in wait in a banana crate, only to be captured by a naively heroic Whole Foods employee.
This past weekend, an equally unsuspecting employee at a discount supermarket in Germany discovered more than 60 pounds of cocaine in a pile of bananas (which had originally come from Columbia Colombia).
If bananas are on the verge of extinction, as we once read they were, they’re sure as hell going out with a bang. What sort of of wonderfully-dangerous surprise will the next South American banana shipment bring with it?
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DISCUSSION: 5 Comments
I would like to find a bunch of bananas stuffed with cigarette butts, or stuffed with just enough money for me to eat more than ramen noodles.
I wish I had found the shipment to Germany…
Hi, the correct spelling is Colombia.
Someone out there is pissed cause their cocaine is gone!
Now this is a great side effect!The Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria nigriventer) is a poisonous spider that’s often found in the banana trees of South America. The spider’s bite is toxic, and leads to pain and raised blood pressure. But beyond these, fairly standard effects, there’s one side effect of the bite that’s attracted the attention of Dr. Romulo Leite, a research scientist at the Medical College of Georgia. Men bitten by this spider often develop erections that can last for more than an hour. Dr. Leite has isolated the compound responsible for the tumescence, and is currently testing to see if it can be used to develop new treatments for erectile dysfunction.