Jan. 21 (UPI) —<\/span> An Australian woman said she was shocked to open a package of broccoli from a local supermarket to discover a live scorpion lurking inside.<\/p>\n Chloe Mitchell said her father-in-law bought the broccoli from the Aldi store in Ulladulla, New South Wales, and she made a surprising discovery while preparing it for a meal.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n “I put it in the steamer on the stove. I then turned around to get the last few pieces and saw something crawling along the chopping board,” Mitchell told News.com.au.<\/p>\n Mitchell shared photos of her discovery to the Aldi Mums page on Facebook.<\/p>\n “I yelled for my husband to come into the kitchen, and he said some choice words,” Mitchell told 9News.<\/p>\n She said the eight-legged creature became aggressive when she and her husband attempted to capture it.<\/p>\n “It was very angry,” Mitchell said.<\/p>\n She said her father-in-law ultimately disposed of the scorpion, fearing for the damage it could do the local ecosystem if it escaped from the home.<\/p>\n An Aldi representative told 7 News the discovery was not a common occurrence.<\/p>\n “We strongly encourage customers to bring issues to our attention directly so we can review,” the representative said.\n<\/p>\n “Without contact with the customer, we can confirm that it is very unusual, and that this broccoli hitchhiker isn’t where they belong — which is likely back on our Aussie producer’s farm.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chloe Mitchell said she was shocked to find a live scorpion in a package of broccoli her father-in-law bought from an Aldi store in\u00a0Ulladulla, Australia. Photo by\u00a0janeb13\/Pixabay.com Jan. 21 (UPI) — An Australian woman said she was shocked to open a package of broccoli from a local supermarket to discover a live scorpion lurking inside. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":761191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-761190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-odd-but-true"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nChloe Mitchell said she was shocked to find a live scorpion in a package of broccoli her father-in-law bought from an Aldi store in\u00a0Ulladulla, Australia. Photo by\u00a0janeb13\/Pixabay.com<\/div>\n\n