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Swedish Volvo workers face big hairy spiders from Brazil
Jul 10, 2007, 15:19 GMT
Stockholm - Employees of heavy-vehicle maker Volvo have been confronted with a startling element of globalisation at their Swedish assembly plant - big hairy spiders from Brazil.
The spiders have been discovered at the northern plant in Umea, 640 kilometres north of Stockholm - apparenlty arriving with shipments of truck cabins made in Brazil, reports said Tuesday.
The biggest spider found so far was eight centimetres across, an employee a told Vasterbottens-Kuriren nesspaper, adding: 'It was not a Swedish spider.' Some of the creatures moved 'incredibly fast'.
No one has been bitten, the reports said - but management has now ordered that the cabins first be sprayed with water before assembly work goes ahead.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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VituperatorJul 11th, 2007 - 01:12:50
Celebrate ethnic diversity.
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