Woman finds deadly surprise in grapes bought from Walmart

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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Woman finds deadly surprise in grapes bought from Walmart
A woman getting ready to open a package of grapes she bought from Walmart spotted a black widow spider crawling over the fruit.

Crawling between one Michigan woman's produce was one of the world's most deadly insects.



Luckily this black widow spider decided to come out of hiding when Ariel Jackson was about to open a package of grapes.



The venom from these spiders is 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake bite, and what could have happened still frightens her.



"My nephew is one. Like if he would have got bit, like if it had got loose in the house, like overnight. Imagine, something could have happened. It's just, it's scary," Jackson said.



She immediately called 9-1-1 to report the spider, and the operator casually told her to squish it. Instead she got her boyfriend to do it.



Meanwhile the grapes were bought at a Walmart, and they're now investigating this creepy encounter.

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