I've had enough of these motherf***ing Scorpions on this motherf***ing plane!

[Tesha]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2007/01/10/national/a064130S14.DTL

Scorpion Stings Vermont Man on Airplane

By DAVID GRAM, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

A scorpion stung David Sullivan on the back of his right leg,
just below the knee, then continued up that leg and down the
other, he believes, before getting him again in the shin.

It wasn't what he was expecting on a flight from Chicago to
Vermont.

Sullivan, a 46-year-old builder from Stowe, was aboard the
United Airlines flight on the second leg of his trip home
from San Francisco, where he and his wife Helena had been
visiting their sons. He awoke from a nap shortly before
landing and noticed something strange.

"My right leg felt like it was asleep, but that was isolated
to one spot, and it felt like it was being jabbed with a sharp
piece of plastic or something."

<snip>

He said he hadn't seen the recent movie, "Snakes on a Plane,"
starring Samuel L. Jackson.

"I'm pretty selective about what I see," Sullivan said.
"Maybe I have to see it now."

[Catherine Vincent]

1. He sure sounds kind of calm. Aren't those things deadly? n/t

[YOY]

2. Depends on the scorpion and how many times you're stung

n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. Most are no worse than a wasp sting

I've been stung many times by our Texas scorpions. They like to hide in my pants hanging in the closet of all places. Now I shake them out before putting them on.

[hobbit709]

4. The ones here in Texas

are relatively harmless-unless you are allergic-but some species are deadly.

[NewJeffCT]

6. ok

definitely not moving to Texas in the future...

[demrabble]

12. They Still Scare Me.

I'm not going to Texas anytime soon.

Humm....Texas gives us scorpions and *.

[Warpy]

7. There's only one variety of potentially deadly scorpion in the US

and it's confined to a very small range in southern Arizona and southeastern California, and that one rarely provides a fatal sting to an adult. Most varieties are annoying, not deadly.

Plus, the venom is not always injected when a person is stung. Venom is an expensive commodity for a scorpion to produce, and it generally doesn't waste it on something that's too big to eat.

Various type of scorpion are found in many areas of the southwest and in central Florida. One could easily have hitched a ride in carry on luggage without being spotted.

I've lived in NM since 1990 and have yet to find a scorpion in any of the places I've lived in. The best way to spot them, though, is with ultraviolet light. All species fluoresce.

[Catherine Vincent]

10. Thanks for the info.

:hi:

[VolcanoJen]

5. Yowch!!!!

It's probably not funny, but your post title made me laugh. :-)

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. It could be worse

It could had stopped off and stung him on the journey between one leg and the other ...

[RevolutionStartsNow]

9. My cousin just sent me an email...

She and her husband were in Mexico for the holidays; he had a scorpian in his swim trunks and when he jumped in the pool it stung him several times. Yikes! He was very sick for several days, numb feet and hands, pain in his joints...couldn't even travel home for awhile.

Fortunately, it missed the important parts.

[walldude]

11. Shit I though this was a thread about Klaus Meine... n/t

[Tesha]

13. Nein! Das Bug! (NT)