Re: Sending seed to Australia
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: Sending seed to Australia
- From: G* S* <g*@loop.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 06:08:31 -0700
From: Gerry Snyder <gcsnyd@loop.com>
Paul & Yvonne Tyerman wrote:
>
> ....
>
> PS Just a warning that this bit is off topic, but related to what I just
> wrote.
>
> An aquaintance of mine will not grow cactus after a friend of hers had the
> following problem a while ago.....
> They were overseas in the US and purchased a cactus. A barrel cactus or
> something of the sort (no exact descitpion was given, just a general
> shape). They brought it back through customs and had it in quarantine for
> the required 3 months at the time and it came home to them quite happily.
> Some unspecified time later (I think we're talking weeks not months) the
> lady was taking some washing out to the line and as she walked past the
> cactus she noticed that it was vibrating....
> Supposedly there is a type of spider that nests in these cactus. It is
> poisonous and very dangerous.
>I'd actually be interested to know if any of you guys out there have ever
>heard of this before. It sounds pretty scarey.
Yup, I've heard of it. It is a standard urban legend. The sort of thing that
always happens to a friend of an acquaintance, or so.
See:
http://www.urbanlegends.com/animals/arthropods2.html
Like all popular urban legends, a great story, though.
Gerry
--
g*@loop.com AIS Region 15
Warm, winterless Los Angeles
President of San Fernando Valley Iris Society
My work? Helping generate data for http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo
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