Someone sure does have a lot of time on their hands...

What would you do if you bought a bag of nuts at Wal-mart, brought them home, started eating them, cracked open a nut and a condom popped out? Yes, that is what I said: a condom.

A Colorado couple had this experience recently when they bought a bag of filbert nuts (aka hazelnuts) . How did this happen? According to today's Associated Press story, the mystery was solved when the police looked it up on the internet.

"The couple took the nut — and its contents — back to Wal-Mart, where an assistant manager photographed it before the Geists took it to the police. Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously," said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Karen Burk. "This is a food-tampering issue."

Apparently, someone had drilled a hole in the nut, emptied the shell and then plugged the hole with wood putty after the condom was inserted.

Someone sure does have a lot of time on their hands.

Turns out, though, that someone else thought of it first. You can actually buy a condom in a nut. The nuts are walnuts, though. The genius who punked the couple in Colorado broke from tradition to choose the hazelnut.

It turns out the "surprise a stranger with a condom in a nut" prank is nothing new. Oslofoodie, a blogger in Norway had the same thing happen to her on Christmas back in 2004. You can read about it in her blog (complete with pictures of the culprit walnut and its contents) here.

Unlike the couple in today's story who went to the police with the offensive nut, Oslofoodie just laughed and admired the prankster's "patch-work." What a refreshing attitude. I think I'll add Norway to my list of places to visit.