Scorpions, not snakes, on a plane
The film “Snakes on a Plane” failed to set box office records but at least one Vermont man knows what it’s like to face creepy creatures: David Sullivan was bit by a scorpion.
A scorpion stung David Sullivan on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, then continued up that leg and down the other before getting him again in the shin.
Mr Sullivan was aboard a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Vermont. He awoke from a nap shortly before landing and noticed something strange.
“My right leg felt like it was asleep, but that was isolated to one spot, and it felt like it was being jabbed with a sharp piece of plastic or something” he told the AP.
A second sting came after the plane had landed and the Sullivans were waiting for their bags at the luggage carousel. Sullivan rolled up his cuff to investigate, and the scorpion fell out.
“It felt like a shock, a tingly thing. Someone screamed, ‘It’s a scorpion,'” Sullivan recalled. Another passenger stepped on the two-inch arachnid. Someone suggested Mr Sullivan seek medical help.
He scooped up the scorpion and headed to the hospital in Burlington.
“The airlines tell you can’t bring water or shampoo on a plane,” Helena Sullivan said. But the scorpion did make it aboard, she told the AP.
United spokeswoman Robin Urbanski said the incident “is something that we will investigate and look into. We’re very sorry for what happened. Our customer safety and security is our No. 1 priority.”
The incident was not unprecedented. An American Airlines flight was delayed for an hour in Toronto last week after a passenger was stung by a scorpion that had made its way on board. Paramedics treated the man when the flight from Miami landed. The delay came when officials searched the aircraft to ensure no other critters had stowed away.
Scorpion stings are rarely fatal, except to babies or older people with health problems,
Report by David Wilkening
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