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While stationed in Havana, my wife and were going to work on morning. I got in the drivers seat. She went around the rear and was going to get in the passenger side. She called out to me and axed if I would sort out this intruder. Bre'r Scorpion was making tracks for the cover of a leaf. He made it to the cover of the leaf just as my foot was arriving. Scratch B'rer Scorpion.

One of my good friends there was a retired Special Forces officer. His last tour in the Army was as commander of the Special Forces SCUBA School in Panama. While there he attended the Army's Jungle Operations course at Fort Gulick. He was out in bush one day with a guide. They were squatting alongside a jungle trail when Larry felt a sting on his arm. Larry was going to stomp the arachnid into the mud, when his guide stopped him. He said the best way to neutralize the scorpion's venom was to cut the brute's body in one half and with the other, get out his combat knife and cut him in half, then rub one of the halves on the spot of the sting; it was sure to make the pain go away. That's one theory that will go untested by me.