Originally Posted By RoadTrip I tell ya... first snakes, now scorpions. It just isn't safe to fly anymore! <<MONTPELIER, Vt. — A scorpion bit David Sullivan on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, then crawled up and down his left leg, he thinks, before getting him again in the shin. Not what he was expecting on his flight home from Chicago to Vermont.>> Complete article: <a href="http://www.startribune.com/484/story/927112.html" target="_blank">http://www.startribune.com/484 /story/927112.html</a>
Originally Posted By LacyBelle Jeepers! I can just imagine the scene I would have made at baggage claim had it been me. <--Dislikes anything with more than four legs.
Originally Posted By gaydsnywitch <--Wonders what LacyBelle has against butterflies. I'm confused, the article keeps switching between him being bit and being stung. I wonder which it was. I'd rather be bitten than stung.
Originally Posted By LacyBelle LOL. I guess you got me on that one, gaydsnywitch. Butterflies would be an exception to the rule. ;-)
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I'm glad the guy is okay and now he's got a great story to tell at parties. Okay, maybe not a *great* story but it's at least a conversation starter. LOL
Originally Posted By gaydsnywitch I'm a Scorpio so I can't really say anything bad about scorpions. I prefer them to be just pictures on a website or television. And I wouldn't want to meet one in a dark alley.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Scorpions are the good arachnids in my book. They're A-OK by me (unless one betrayed me and stung me, then I might be nonplussed). Even the sequence of the giant scorpions rising from the blood of the head of Medusa (though "historically" inaccurate) in "Clash of the Titans" I saw as a kid didn't bother me one bit.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs *turns on the 3-D version of "Arachnophobia"* Oh wait... there already is a version of that out. It's called "It's Tough to be a Bug".
Originally Posted By bloona I remember getting on a plane from Turkey in 1989, and the air crew asked everyone to cover their mouths as they came through the cabin spraying everything with bug spray...lol...that was a little odd. My father in law teaches English as a second language, he's done it in many countries, in one he said he always checked his shoes for scorpians before putting them on each day, as they often sneaked in..AHHHHH!!!!!!!!! of course this story would have been better if I could have remembered where he was at the time! Sorry.
Originally Posted By LacyBelle bloona's story reminded me of a story my high school Spanish teacher once told. She was traveling in South or Central America (like bloona, I can't recall the country -- too long ago, I guess. LOL). After answering the call of nature (if you know what I mean) she looked down into the toilet before flushing and saw a scorpion in there. Freaked her out as she could only imagine if he'd decided to sting while she was sitting. She flushed him away. Oh, the humanity. Imagine, the poor thing was just minding his own business in the 'bathtub' when a total eclipse came overhead. ;-)
Originally Posted By bloona lol.....Im checking everywhere from now on....do we have scorpions in the UK?...ah well, just in case.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Where's Samuel Jackson when you need him? I'M TIRED OF THESE MOTHER (beep) SCORPIONS!
Originally Posted By MissCandice I was attacked by a scorpion (with a knife!) in my grandparent's kitchen in Texas. I stomped on it.
