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Ore. man stung by scorpion on commercial flight
http://news.yahoo.com/ore-man-stung-scorpion-commercial-flight-140415697.html ^
| 6/29/2011
| AP
Posted on 06/30/2011 9:12:44 AM PDT by Morgana
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) An Oregon man got a big surprise on a commercial flight from Seattle to Anchorage, Alaska, when he was stung by a scorpion while sitting in his plane seat.
Jeff Ellis of West Linn said he was trying to sleep on a red-eye Alaska Airlines flight June 17 when he felt something in his sleeve and tried to brush it away. He said he felt the crawling again, looked down and saw the culprit.
"I picked my hand up and said, 'Oh, my God. That's a scorpion,'" Ellis told KPTV.
He said he grabbed the scorpion with a napkin and showed it to his girlfriend, but not before it stung him on the elbow.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: flight; napl; scorpion; scorpionsonaplane; sting; stung
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:12:47 AM PDT
by
Morgana
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:13:53 AM PDT
by
Morgana
(I never said a thing.....................)
To: Morgana
I saw that movie, “Scorpions on a Plane”
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:17:28 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Liberals who graduate from Ivy League schools are the dumbest people on the planet.)
To: Morgana
Probably brought it through in a pill bottle. Easy money to follow...
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:29:33 AM PDT
by
nralife
(www.fireholder.com)
To: Morgana
Coming next from an airline near you:
a $30 surcharge to sit in the "No Scorpions Section".
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:31:30 AM PDT
by
Notary Sojac
(Populism is antithetical to conservatism.)
To: Morgana
Grabbed the scorpion?
Sheeesh.......
To: Morgana
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:32:24 AM PDT
by
MissTed
( Since beginning the gin and tonic diet, I've already lost two days!)
To: Notary Sojac
a $30 surcharge to sit in the "No Scorpions Section". So that's where it's guaranteed you won't have to listen to "Rock You Like a Hurricane"?
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:34:31 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Morgana
I guess airline food has really gone downhill...
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:34:35 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Morgana
Flying AK air in August... Hopefully we can avoid the critters..
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:35:54 AM PDT
by
Rightly Biased
(Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?)
To: Morgana
No different than being stung by a yellow jacket unless you are sensitive to the venom. There are Mexican and Sahara Desert Scorpions that have a more toxic venom but the average scorpion is no more dangerous than a bee.
To: vetvetdoug
Had a neighbor in Costa Rica killed by one. The damned thing had settled into the man’s house slippers during the night. He got up the next morning and broke a cardinal rule there by not checking first before putting bare feet anywhere. Knocking my shoes on the floor and checking before putting them on is something I do even now by life long habit. Drives the family nuts.
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:54:33 AM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: PowderMonkey
Knocking and dumping one’s shoes before putting them on is a habit that may save a person a lot of grief. Here we have Brown Recluses, Black Widows and other insects that love to inhabit the toe of boots placed on the back porch that have too much mud on them to wear in the house. Like you, I developed the habit while living in Texas where the scorpions were the main culprits. Not too long ago, I dumped out my work boots and there was a skink in one of them.
To: EQAndyBuzz
“There’s @%$# scorpions on this @%$# plane!! “
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posted on
06/30/2011 10:01:29 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
To: texmexis best
Grabbed the scorpion? Sheeesh.......
I've done that. On accident. My wife has long hair, and on occasion, little tangles of hair wind up on the floor. Well, the lights in the bedroom aren't very bright (ha, neither was I, at the time), and I saw what I thought was a little tangle of hair. I bent down, picked it up, and it was moving. I dispatched it, but I didn't sleep very well that night.
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posted on
06/30/2011 10:08:43 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
To: vetvetdoug
Do not forget to shake your gloves my daughter did and out popped a Black Widow spider.
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posted on
06/30/2011 10:22:34 AM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: Morgana; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
The scorpion has been hired by TSA as a body cavity inspector.
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posted on
06/30/2011 10:29:40 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Morgana; windcliff; onedoug
We find small dead ones in the house occasionally that are killed by our bug huntin’ cat. I’m glad she finds them first.
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posted on
06/30/2011 1:39:02 PM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
(Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
To: Slings and Arrows
And if you don’t threaten it, it won’t sting you.
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posted on
06/30/2011 3:12:50 PM PDT
by
TheOldLady
(FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I heard this on the local news this morning. I don’t think I will be going to AZ on any airlines soon.
But, I have no reason to go there...period...so I’m okay. ;o)
Now...if they are robot TSA inspectors, I will complain.
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posted on
07/01/2011 12:18:47 AM PDT
by
dixiechick2000
(Age, skill, wisdom, and a little treachery will always overcome youth and arrogance!)
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