Scorpion Stings Man On United Flight

[Floyd R. Turbo]

A creature that appeared to be a scorpion fell from an overhead bin and stung a man on a United Airlines flight, the company confirmed to CNBC on Thursday.

According to multiple reports, passenger Richard Bell was on a United flight from Houston to Calgary on Sunday, when the creature fell from an overhead bin and stung him.

United told CNBC the airline crew immediately consulted with a physician on the ground who provided guidance throughout the incident. The company said the man's injuries were non-life threatening.

"Medical personnel met the aircraft after it arrived in Calgary," United spokesman Charles Hobart told CNBC.

Link: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/13/scorpion-stings-man-on-united-flight-to-calgary.html

[PoliticAverse]

1. He should have paid more for the non-scorpion seating! n/t

[Coventina]

5. LOL! Sur-charge coming for non-venemous hazard seating!

I shouldn't be laughing, it's probably coming!

[TexasProgresive]

2. If it hitched a ride in Texas it's no big deal.

Hurts like Hell but generally do no lasting damage. We call 'em stangin' lizards. There are some around the world that are dangerous.

[PoliticAverse]

7. Fly United - you'll get better eventually! n/t

[suffragette]

10. I would be freaking out if I was on a plane and a scorpion landed on my head then stung me.

Hell, I would even if I wasn't on a plane.

[forgotmylogin]

11. True, this is horrifying...

but in the southwest US, tiny scorpions are common like house spiders. I think the story said this one was an inch long?

Scary, but no more harmful than a bee sting. (Which can be a big deal, I know.)

When you're in AZ they always tell you to shake your shoes out before putting them on, because scorpions like to hide in burrow-like holes. Likely this thing crawled out of someone's dirty laundry in a bag that was in the overhead and could have been there for weeks.

[marybourg]

12. I don't know what they have in Texas,

but in AZ, the small ones - they're certainly not tiny - are the most venomous, and they're not common indoors. I lived on the outer fringes of the Phoenix metro for 17 years before I saw my first one. But it's always good to shake out your shoes.

[suffragette]

13. Not common up here in WA. Or in Canada either. I wouldn't know which ones are more dangerous

than others and would be creeped out.

[longship]

3. Get these m-f scorpions off this m-f plane!!!!

Sorry. Had to do it.

[PoliticAverse]

6. People could believe a movie about a plane infested with snakes, scorpions? - never. n/t

[Aristus]

4. Man, United is really going all-in to free up seats, aren't they?

[PoliticAverse]

8. This is how you turn an involuntary bumping into a voluntary one. n/t

[Aristus]

9. HA!