About.com has a little gallery of Scary Exotic Pet Pictures, and while I didn’t really find most of them too scary… this one was a shocker.
This giant shelled bringer of disease and doom is a Giant African Land Snail, and it would probably kill you for no other reason than it was bored, and you had a stupid look on your face…
In extreme circumstances the Giant African Land Snail has been known to secrete poison and lasers from it’s slimy underbelly bringing doom and carnage to families, small towns, forests and New York once back in the 80s… but the whole thing was more or less swept under the rug so the US could save face during the cold war.
Another interesting fact is that they climb into trees when they get mad at you and hatch plans on how to get even (Pictured Right)
Consider this:
FACT: 11,000 people die every year from coordinate giant-land-snail attacks in most major metropolitan cities**
So next time you are prancing around a rain forest thinking your hot-shit because your iPhone has JailBreak on it and you run all the latest “apps” on it… that’s probably a snail-agent-of-doom watching your every move and it’s not impressed with how fast you can SMS your friends.
** This is not, nor has it ever been, true.
Oh my god, I would buy salt by the bagful if those were where I lived.
i have been breeding African Giant snails and they have laid eggs. i will be selling them for £15 each.
Any takers
£15!!!! That is so expensive. do not buy them. I got mine for £2.50 so you are waaay overpriced
Kayleigh,
Do you buy them as babies or giant monster snails?
my Giant African Land Snail is two and the size of my hand. He/it is not fully grown and worth around £3.50. The bigger they get the more expensive and my local petshop give away eggs. Buying one for £15 is rediculous.
Backy would you mind sending in a picture of it to contact@thebuzzmedia.com? I’ll add the picture to this story… I think these things are awesome.
There snails dude…
omg kayliegh im sellin mine for free! my 2 snails had 49 babys and are 2 and 2cm bigger than my hand!
I want a pet Snail D:
SimaWei,
These aren’t pet snails… they are beasts of war!
They’re silent assassins…yeah that tree move? They aren’t sleeping! They’re bringers of doom and global panic!
i got mine for £10 including tank and 2 snails they are big and about to have little ones
All of you guys are stupid did you know that African snails are poisonus I hope you don’t hold then with your dare hand and that you use gloves then you handle them ps why would you buy the snails if you can just go outsideand catch one today I found 2 babies and 1 huge one and guess way I did with is I threw salt on his behind because he was eating out my plants those little poisonus monsters
Deedee, the giant african land snail is not ‘poisonous’. It is a common carrier of a worm that spreads a potentially fatal strain of meningitis in humans. That is why it is smart to buy them from reputable pet shops instead of going outside and picking them up.