It's a sad, sad commentary on my life that I KNEW what their biggest hit was, LOL! (Rock You Like A Hurricane) Bwaaaa-Haaaaa-Haaaa!
Posted on 08/16/2008 6:19:43 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A scorpion was found Friday on a Deerfield, WI area farm, captured and turned over to the Dane County Humane Society.
Authorities speculated it might be an escaped pet.
A town of Oregon man, who asked not to be named, said in an interview that the scorpion was found during yardwork at his parents' farm.
The creature was captured -- carefully -- by putting an aquarium on top of it, then sliding cardboard underneath the aquarium and flipping it over, he said, adding that it didn't make any aggressive moves.
He then used duct tape to seal the aquarium, put it in his trunk and brought it to his home, where it spent the night in the garage.
He knew it was a scorpion, but only realized it was one of the poisonous varieties when researching it on the Internet Friday night.
"I realized it was not something to be playing with," he said.
He didn't have second thoughts about capturing it, though.
"There's kids and cats and dogs" at the farm, he said.
After he contacted authorities on Saturday morning, a Humane Officer came out and took possession of the scorpion.
There are about 1,300 species of scorpions worldwide, according to www.doyourownpestcontrol.com. Most are not poisonous, except for two species found in the southwestern states like Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.
Scorpions are nocturnal, predatory animals that feed on a variety of insects, spiders, centipedes, and other scorpions. The larger scorpions occasionally feed on vertebrates, such as smaller lizards, snakes, and mice.
It's a sad, sad commentary on my life that I KNEW what their biggest hit was, LOL! (Rock You Like A Hurricane) Bwaaaa-Haaaaa-Haaaa!
I found a scorpion (we called them stinging lizards) a year or so back and simply stomped on it. Not exactly big news.
“The Zoo” was a better tune and for date night music “Still” couldn’t be beat.
Big City Nights, and of course, Winds of Change.
Scorpions skeeve me out, worse even than spiders. I’d have taken a can of Raid to the thing (and used half of it in the process, LOL).
My next door neighbor’s son was eaten by scorpions. He was actually a pretty nice kid.
Who would hesitate to kill a venomous vermin?
Hate it when that happens.
Tasty Too!
How sad … ;-(
Deep fry ‘em, and serve ‘em on a skewer. That’s what the Chinese do - yum, yum.
You been watchin’ too much Olympics!
susie
Yeah, yeah....
And a moose once bit my sister before she could stune her beeber.
Rub squished up jewelweed stems & leaves on the area and hold them there for a moment until the pain goes away — jewelweed works faster than any commercial topical stuff against pain and itching, including poison ivy. The spot won’t swell up or be red for long. Jewelweed grows along creeks in the Ozarks- often conveniently where poison ivy is- and has small funny-looking orange flowers that hang on tiny threadlike stalks. Hummingbirds go crazy for them. The seed pods, when touched, spring open and fling seeds several feet from the plant. If you don’t have jewelweed around when you need it, you can find a close relative in any store’s garden department called ‘impatiens’ — impatiens work almost as well and it’s worth keeping a few pots of them around the yard especially in fire ant country.
Seems like an expensive way to get rid of a bug. Down here we simply stomp them into the ground. Only takes a second.
This is hugh.....I'm series!
I was stung by a scorpion here in the Ozarks, walking in a barn door, it dropped down and hammered me on the upper shoulder on the back, felt like a 2x4 with a nail in it. Ir knocked me down, I am not kidding.
Had an exquisitely painful red spot, and it did take about a month to heal. Very sore muscles, until it did.
PETA
Hasn’t the animal protection society taken control of the farm yet to protect the scorpions against the hateful humans?
Prayers for the family.
/src
I sprayed him with insecticide for quite a while before he quit moving. Kept him in a jar for awhile then through it away. I bet one that big could really harm you.
In Texas you simply smash a scorpion.
You showed much greater sense than the feller who asked to remain nameless.
sheesh that sounds AWFUL.
I've heard that can happen if you are karving your initials on the moose with a sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given to you by your brother-in-law, Svenge - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies . . .
Sadly, in many such cases a beeber, whether stuned or not, is useless.
Next time I see a spider in the house....I’ll know to call Animal Control.
I’ve flicked a dozen into the campfire in one night. And when you pull up your tent in the morning there’s a dozen more staying warm right under your sleeping spot.
Creepy little buggers.
The average big-city liberal judge?
Back in Arizona, I’ve had bark scorpions crawling on my flesh. That will change up your breathing in a quick hurry.
I still remember the time my wife found a mama bark scorpion in the kitchen cabinet where we kept the glasses. She (the scorpion) had several dozen transparent babies on her back.
We carefully moved the glasses out of the way and sprayed 3M Super 77 Spray Adhesive on them all so none of the babies could get loose and wander. Then stuck a piece of cardboard to the pile of them and moved them out.
A friend got stung by one while she was working in the back yard. For the rest of the day, every few minutes, she would scream in pain. She got over it in time.
I always thought that was “Raunchy Like a Hurricane” lol
I don't get it. Whats that from? I even googled it and came up with this thread.
Never knew those were jewelweed! We always called them ‘touch-me-nots’ because of the seed flinging pods. I learned something new.
One of my old pals had been the commander of the Special Forces SCUBA School in Panama. When he was going to the Jungle School, one of his instructors told him that if he was ever stung by a scorpion, he should grab the beast and cut him in half with his KBar. He should then take the rear half and rub it over the site of the sting. That would neutralize the scorpion's venom. For me, that's one theory that will remain untested.
That piece of detailed information fits right into my world. Thanks.
I was stung by a scorpion when I was 8. I remember screaming and crying. It hurt like hell.
I killed the thing. Just instinct.
Small though?
The insect or the German Rock Band?
“Who would hesitate to kill a venomous vermin?”
A perverted liberal...who would also sympathise and slobber over a rapist, a murderer, or an effing terrorist...
...but who wouldn’t hestitate to abort an innocent baby.
Sick bastards.
I used to collect scorpians in jars and watch them fight whatever we put in there with em. They are everywhere here under just about any flat rock. Never been stung by one, but I hear that the ones we have aren’t deadly.
I can’t believe someone on a farm would actually do all that to save one...
Agggggh!
(photoshopped or not, I’m takin’ a Hellfire to that thing!)
You got that right!
Scorpions are not normally found in Wi?
I use bug bombs regularly in my outbuildings, so I’m not afraid of scorpions or brown recluses as much as before. I got a brown recluse bite one time (at least the doctor thought it was, black center and red around it) but it went away without treatment. He thought it might have been a very low amount of venom (toxin?) or that I was naturally immune.
But I had no idea there were scorpions in Shannon County (where I was stung) until after I got that bad sting. Then my neighbors said, sure, there are scorpions in Southern Mo.
Heh. Wish I’d known...
I have heard, but do not know for sure, that the main cause of the growing area of immense swelling and then necrotic or dead flesh resulting from the recluse’s bite is not from the venom that the spider injects, but is actualy an infection of the anerobic bacteria living on the fangs.
This country has truly lost it’s freedom when we have to protect the life of a deadly predator instead of taking out the trash.
I must agree.
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