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Michelle Smith and her two sons saw the motionless creature. “I’m short-sighted and thought it was dead until I prodded it and its tail and stinger rose in attack,” she told the Independent newspaper.


Michelle, from Penarth, South Wales, said that the scorpion came from a bag of Mexican grapes. David Smith, her husband, captured the creature in a lunchbox.


Tesco apologised for any distress.

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