Posted on 12/12/2010 10:38:57 PM PST by JoeProBono
ASPEN, Colo.- A couple in the Aspen, Colo., area say they found a bark scorpion in their house, hundreds of miles from and thousands of feet above its proper habitat.
Stanley Coriat says his wife was leaving the laundry room of their Summit Vista, Colo., home two weeks ago when she spotted a light brown scorpion trying to leave with her, The Aspen Times reported Sunday.
It was a bark scorpion, the most venomous of the species.
The range of the small bark scorpion is the Sonoran Desert and the desert Southwest.
Coriat told Eagle County health and human services officials but "I had to bring the scorpion to the community center before anybody would believe me."
Eventually, he contacted a wildlife biologist for the Aspen and Sopris Ranger Districts, who confirmed the creature was a bark scorpion.
But how it ended up where it did remains a mystery, the Times says.
Joe’s stash is bigger than Obama’s that the detroiters wanted. Tried to styme him with Just a Gigolo by Louis Prima and he had it..we should offer 10 bucks to the first one he cannot come up with a picture for..
Well alrightly then. Sounds like a challenge lol BUT there has to be a time limit to produce the pic. hehe
(Used to live in Phoenix for a number of years. We found out, by the way, that cats are immune to scorpion venom: we watched our cat get stung in the face by a scorpion with NO ill effects...for the cat. There were scorpion pieces by the cat's food dish the next morning.)
Cheers!
You know that the wetbacks walk/ride through the Senoran desert every day. That is where these freeloaders come from.
Can we still use the word “wetback” or is that out of style now?
Well, it would be more impressive if you used the term correctly.
But since you're really only looking for a way to impress us by how angry you are ... you just go right ahead and use your little insult.
More likely, the scorpion came from just about any part of Texas. Hitched a ride from one of us visiting Colorado.
:O)
Odd...I didn’t know scorpions could bark.
Please tell me how to use a racial slur correctly, so I can get it right next time. Please, do tell.
“Wetback” is a term for Mexicans who immigrate illegally to the United States.[1] It is generally used as an ethnic slur, and is sometimes applied to Mexican-Americans or others of Latin American decent. Wiki.
How could I have used it incorrectly?
Wetback is a wetback. Please tell me what I did wrong.
Punctuation, spelling, grammar, syntax, what?
It is killing me! I wanted so much to impress you.
Damn, a gringo missed his chance. Maybe some day we get
to drum them (wetbacks) out of our country. Maybe even float them back.
Illegal Meskin immigrant? #17
No reply to him? Chicken?
“how angry I am” WTF does that mean?
“how angry I am” you must have ESPN, dude?
What kind of name is r9etb?
Please translate for the unlearned.
Is that hispanic for dork?
Be that as it may, your silly little epithet was more an expression of your angst than a useful description. It marks you as angry, rather than rational.
And your ridiculous little rants to me do nothing to improve my already low opinion of your ideas.
Well, son, wetback as an epithet is all inclusive, it is not literal. Boy, you must be a little touchy about the subject. What up with you? Why so stody? Why come on this forum if you don’t like what is written. There is plenty of space over at Huffpost I’ve heard. Uptight and bitter is no way to go through life son.
P.S. Funny name, in a wierd sort of way.
I thought the ones that came by land were scratchbacks....from crawling under the fence. Then again... what fence? Just sayin.
Well, idiots bug me. Loudmouthed idiots need to be reminded of their sins.
Your latest little rant just shows that you're stupid, too.
Now, now, 2ndr8, has it come to this? Name calling?
Okay, here we go.
I know you, are what am I?
Well, I know I’m not a wetback are you?
Go away now and let the big people talk, thanks sonny.
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