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Airline Passenger Stung by Scorpion During Flight
AP/FoxNews ^
| 7/20/09
Posted on 07/20/2009 3:34:56 PM PDT by Kartographer
Forty-four-year-old Douglas Herbstsommer of Gilbert, Ariz., wasn't seriously injured Sunday when he was stung by a venomous Arizona bark scorpion while going through his luggage.
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KEYWORDS: airlines; ouch; scorpion; swa; swairlines
Luck for him it wasn't United they would have most likely considered the scorpions extra baggage and charged him a fee accordingly.
To: Kartographer
I deal with these boogers every time I work the fence-line in the Texas Hill Country....in fact 3 weeks ago one road to the shower with me in my hair (didn't wear a cap that day)....washed him to the shower floor where he made his stand...he lost!
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posted on
07/20/2009 3:45:51 PM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: Kartographer
I hate Luggage Scorpions almost as much as Toilet Monsters!
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posted on
07/20/2009 3:50:47 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
(The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache.)
To: Kartographer
Venomous doesn’t automatically mean deadly.
I’ve been bit, in the thigh. Painful for a few hours, but then it’s gone.
I never did anything but curse the booger. No ER or treatment at all.
That was more than six months ago.
To: Kartographer
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posted on
07/20/2009 3:57:53 PM PDT
by
I-ambush
(I didn't think, I never dreamed, that I would be around to see it all come true-McCartney and Wings)
To: Kartographer
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