These Snails Move FAST

The giant (though it's actually quite small) African land snail. In the 1960s, a boy brought three from Hawaii as a gift for his grandmother in Florida, who threw them into her backyard. It took nine years and $1 million for the state to eradicate the invasion that followed. That was then, this is now, and Florida is seeing a second infestation. It has been destroying about a thousand of these gastropods a week since last September. Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil are also battling the creature: http://www.kcet.org/socal/food/prop-37/prop-37-cash-which-companies-are-supporting-genetically-modified-food.html