When you think of West Virginia, scorpions don't exactly come to mind, so you can imagine how surprised Megan Templeton was when she was stung while picking up a Watermelon at her local Wal-Mart. Here is yet another reason to shop for locally grown produce: you can't get stung by exotic creatures when you pick up a head of lettuce grown in the next town over. A Watermelon from Mexico, however, can bring all kinds of nasty critters with it, as we can see here.

Here's the AP story via USA Today:

Girl stung by scorpion in Wal-Mart watermelon

BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — One young shopper at a Wal-Mart in West Virginia had to watch out for more than falling prices.

A 12-year-old girl picking up a seedless watermelon from a bin was stung Sunday by a tan, inch-long scorpion that had apparently stowed away in a shipment from Mexico.

Megan Templeton, of Barboursville, was taken to the hospital as a precaution but later released. Her father, William Templeton, said the pain was a little worse than a bee sting.

He initially didn't believe his daughter when she said she had been stung by a scorpion, but then he saw the critter scurry underneath a box. It was captured by Wal-Mart employees.

Most of the nearly 2,000 kinds of scorpions are not dangerous to humans.