A 12-year-old girl was stung by a scorpion at a Wal-Mart store on Sunday while trying to pick out a watermelon from a bin. The scorpion was around an inch long and must have got caught in the shipment from Mexico. The girl, Megan Templeton, was taken to the hospital immediately and made a full recovery.

Basketball coach Ron Hunter of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) went barefoot during a game and he did not expect the overwhelming support he obtained for an advocacy that intends to give pairs of shoes to thousands of African children. "When we started this I thought 40,000 was going to be tough," Hunter told the Indianapolis Star. "When they told me before the game we already had 100,000, honestly, I almost broke down in tears. "

An MP3 player bought from a Wal-Mart store in Tennessee has shocked a 10-year-old girl, who saw pornographic videos and heard songs about using drugs from the device when she played it. The girl's father, Daryl Hill, who bought three of the players as Christmas presents for his children, has complained with the store in Sparta. His daughter cried upon seeing the obscene videos and the father is at a loss on how to erase the explicit images from her young mind.

A bell ringer for the Salvation Army was caught shoplifting Christmas ornaments, all the while singing "The First Noel. " Sean M. Sayers, 33, who was arrested by police on Wednesday, was reportedly on his break from working outside a Wal-Mart.

A 38-year old woman arrested for petty theft almost got additional jail sentence over a vial of cat urine. According to a local paper, Cynthia Hunter was arrested Aug. 15 on a charge of petty theft after she was accused of stealing from a Wal-Mart store.