Man stung by scorpion on United Airlines flight

As if United Airlines hasn’t been in the news enough …

United passenger Richard Bell got stung by a scorpion, which had been hiding out in an overhead cargo bin, on a flight from Houston to Calgary on April 12.

The scorpion fell on Bell’s head, so he grabbed it and got stung on the thumb.

“It stung like a wasp thing,” he explained later.”You know, something like that.”

After it stung him. Bell threw the scorpion to the floor, covered it with a cup, and smashed it with a shoe. he then flushed it down the toilet—unfortunate, because then no one could identify, which species it was.

Some scorpions can be quite dangerous or even deadly. Bell got lucky—apparently this one wasn’t too venomous.

Bell had nothing but praise for the United flight crew, ” They started calling the center for infection control and then Calgary was notified,” he said. “EMS (Emergency Medical Services) was on the plane before we all got off.”

After scandals involving young ladies being denied boarding because of their clothing, one man threatened with handcuffs if he didn’t swap seats, and a pair of paying passengers being forcibly evicted, a man getting poisoned on a United flight is the best news the airline has had all week.