Stop the Train - There’s a Scorpion in My Bag!

Yorkshire Post ^ | 02 May 2014

[skinkinthegrass]

i lived in (Bryan/College Station) TX, we used to play
w/ 'em..and cuddle them, too! [very carefully]
along w/snakes, turtles, lizards and amphibians.

[Pollster1]

It’s a freakin’ BUG! Step on it!

In CA, AZ, NM, or TX, that's what I'd do, but on the London Underground, I'd call the authorities. It's not that I would feel inadequate to the task of squishing an arachnid on the other side of the Pond, but I would be concerned that no one would bother with identification for the resulting goo. It's worth at least attempting to identify the species and its source, and thinking about whether the West's enemies might have decided to start releasing such wildlife in parks and public transit.

[skinkinthegrass]

and they're better than a pony/quarterhorse..
you don't have to clean the stalls..feed 'em.

[PLMerite]

Aw, that's not a scorpion,

THIS is a Skorpion!

[skinkinthegrass]

so kewl..so hot to own.

[Mr Rogers]

“The scorpion really is a beautiful animal and it’s a shame that it has been exposed to such a stressful situation.”

Yeah...the scorpions I’ve met - and I’ve met a lot in Arizona - REALLY get stressed out by humans moving them somewhere! Of course, when I do it, they have already been squished and their scorpion juices have squirted out their sides, so maybe they just seem stressed in that state.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

“The scorpion really is a beautiful animal "

Nah!

[M Kehoe]

Hmmm. The scorpion is non-migratory. I wonder if it was carried by an unladen swallow?

Or a Muslim from Morocco?

5.56mm

[Osage Orange]

Was hunting one day....and sat down waiting for Bambi's dad to come by. Realized I was sitting on a scorpion nest of babies....I killed them all. Never thought much of it....

Am I a bad man?

[machogirl]

I use Finesse, ultra-hold hairspray, lacquer it and scoop into a plastic tub with lid. Into the trash. I’m a wimpy gal when it comes to those things. I hate them. The Finesse is great for holding hair and scorpions. Inexpensive

[machogirl]

lol

[machogirl]

You have scorps in OK?

[Osage Orange]

Yep....

Had one big guy in the computer room...long time ago!! Was real creepy....I didn't like that one!!! He could run fast!!!

Their sting hurts...but not deadly.

[taillightchaser]

Did you scream?

[vetvetdoug]

In 1992 our little group put on a Living History Demonstration at Kennesaw Mountain NMP and camped in the rocks back in the woods. The next morning we woke to scorpions in our bed blankets, saddle blankets, in our clothes, in our saddle bags, haversacks, and cartridge boxes. After many careful examinations we saddled up to go to the demonstrations. While all of the men were dismounted showing skirmish firing, one of my troopers pulled a blank from his cartridge box that had one of the scorpions hanging on to it. With coolness and professionalism, he loaded the Sharps with the blank and scorpion and fired it.

[Osage Orange]

My girls did!!!

I think I yelled!!!

LOL!!!

[NoCmpromiz]

Umm... ping for your “edification”... ;-)

[machogirl]

I’ve lived here my entire life, only been stung once, but it was by a bark scorp (they have more nasty venom than the big ones). I live now in the part of town where I grew up. The BIG ones live here. YUCK. One is squished and lacquered against the wall. lol, can’t scrape it off. I didn’t know OK has scorps. They are mean critters and primal.

[machogirl]

I scream at almost every bug and scorps.

[Ax]

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.