No, Wal-Mart doesn’t sell or collect scorpions. It just happened that one scorpion had managed to find its way behind a watermelon and, when a girl tried to pick the watermelon up, the scorpion stung her.

12-year-old girl Megan Templeton got stung in the Barboursville Wal-Mart when she was picking up a watermelon from a bin. Maybe the scorpion thought it was a fruit, that’s why it hid there.

The kid was taken to a hospital. I am happy to inform that both girl and scorpion are ok. I think the scorpion is very sorry. And I bet that Wal-Mart employees are more than sorry.

Richard Coyle, senior director of international affairs for Wal-Mart said he was very concerned and that an incident like this never happened before. Well, there’s always a first time for everything.

According to The Associated Press, Coyle said that Wal-Mart employees thought that the scorpion came with the shipment of the watermelons. I bet it wanted to travel a little, get to see the world.

This unfortunate event with a happy end was almost unbelievable to the girl’s father. When the kid told him that she was stung by a scorpion, her father hesitated in believing her.

Asked about the sting, Megan bravely said that it hurt a little bit more than a bee sting.