Mozambique menaced by flesh-eating bananas Banana sales in Mozambican capital Maputo have taken a serious hit as a result of email and text message warnings of the dire consequences of contact with killer plantains. In response to a hoax alert that bananas imported from KwaZulu-Natal province in neighbouring South Africa were carrying the necrotizing fasciitis …
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You don’t normally find spiders in bunches of bananas and I’d think the reason is because bananas are transported in a unripened state and are ripened by exposing then to xylene gas, and considering spiders have such poor respiratory systems, probably kills them.
And now the real reason for making a post
Paris, ‘cos she likes to eat bananas . . . . . . . . . . oh hang on, that wasn’t a banana, was it?
Why don't we ever use it for a good cause? For instance, we could eradicate ivory poaching with an email stating that there was a growing wave of butt raping by horny bullet proof pachyderms, supported by some scientific sounding latin terms such as Elephantis Bangingyouranus or something.
The only real difference between this idiotic scare story and the ones I usually read is that this one appears to be happening abroad.
However, perhaps now that it has arrived at El Reg, the UK tabloids will pick up the wrong end of the stick and by next week bananas will be tuppence a ton in my local supermarkets. That would be nice. I like bananas.
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