You've seen Snakes on a Plane...

[GenMarshall]

...now time for a sequal. Scorpion on a plane!

Scorpion on a plane -- passenger gets pantful of pain​

MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) -- A scorpion stung David Sullivan on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, then crawled up and down his left leg, he thinks, before getting him again in the shin.

Not what he was expecting on his flight home from Chicago to Vermont.

Sullivan, a 46-year-old builder from Stowe, was aboard the United Airlines flight on the second leg of his trip home from San Francisco, where he and his wife, Helena, had been visiting their sons. He awoke from a nap shortly before landing and noticed something strange. (Watch when the scorpion scrambled from underneath his pants Video)

"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."

The 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, and someone suggested Sullivan seek medical help.

He scooped up the scorpion and headed to the hospital in Burlington. His wife stopped at the United counter and was told the plane they were on had flown from Houston to Chicago. The Sullivans surmised the scorpion boarded in Texas.

"The airlines tell you you can't bring water or shampoo on a plane," Helena Sullivan said. But the scorpion did make it aboard, she said.

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."

Scorpion stings are rarely fatal, except to babies or older people with health problems, said Dr. Stephen Leffler, director of emergency services at Burlington's Fletcher Allen Health Care hospital.

"We don't see many scorpion bites in Vermont," Leffler said.

For a healthy adult, a scorpion sting can mean numbness or shooting pain, or flu-like symptoms, which Sullivan said he had the next day.

He said he hadn't seen the recent movie, "Snakes on a Plane," starring Samuel L. Jackson.

"I'm pretty selective about what I see," Sullivan said. "Maybe I have to see it now."

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[Volum]

Fine i'l do it

"I'm tired of all these moterf...... scorpions on this moterf...... plane"

 

[GenMarshall]

My question is, how in the world can a scorpion managed to get into the plane unnoticed.

 

[thetrooper]

My question is, how in the world can a scorpion managed to get into the plane unnoticed.

The same way as a bunch of snakes got unto the plane I guess.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

My question is, how in the world can a scorpion managed to get into the plane unnoticed.

They checked in wearing a full niqab and the airline people didn't want to create controversy by asking them to remove it.

Bloody PC-ness will destroy the West

 

[Elta]

They checked in wearing a full niqab and the airline people didn't want to create controversy by asking them to remove it.

Bloody PC-ness will destroy the West

Lol (actual lol too)

 

[bhsup]

Actually, I haven't seen Snakes On A Plane. I looked at it the other night in Hollywood Video and decided it looked like a stupid movie. I don't get any of the references to it and I'm thinking that is a good thing.

 

[Markus6]

Actually, I haven't seen Snakes On A Plane. I looked at it the other night in Hollywood Video and decided it looked like a stupid movie.

It is! It's also less stupid than most recent films that try to take themselves seriously

I don't get any of the references to it and I'm thinking that is a good thing.

It's definitely not a good thing. Just see the movie already.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Actually, I haven't seen Snakes On A Plane. I looked at it the other night in Hollywood Video and decided it looked like a stupid movie. I don't get any of the references to it and I'm thinking that is a good thing.

You can guess the gist of the film though right?

 

[Synobun]

I watched Snakes On A Plane yesterday, it was pretty cool.