Forget ‘Snakes on a Plane.’ How About Scorpions?
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.24.07 | 2:23 PM ET
No, not these. The real deal. According to USA Today’s Ben Mutzabaugh, a man on a flight from Costa Rica to Madrid was stung on his shoulder and finger by a scorpion. Mutzabaugh cites news reports stating that the man was treated for severe nausea by a doctor on the plane, and that a fellow passenger killed the scorpion. As Mutzabaugh points out, this isn’t a first. A number of travelers have been stung by scorpions mid-flight, including a passenger aboard a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Burlington, Vermont in January.
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Photo by alex.ch via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
