# Scorpion country, anyone have any success keeping them out?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-country-anyone-have-any-success-keeping-them-out/658124
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 12, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-country-anyone-have-any-success-keeping-them-out/658124 "2013-05-12T03:29:19Z")
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### Author: ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-country-anyone-have-any-success-keeping-them-out/658124/21 "2013-05-14T02:31:18Z")

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> [@EmilyG](#):
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> As an aside question, how do you scorpion-country people deal with finding one inside? Do you crush/kill it, or try to pick it up and put it outside?

I killed them and then flushed them down the toilet (into the septic tank).

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### Author: ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-country-anyone-have-any-success-keeping-them-out/658124/22 "2013-05-14T02:57:06Z")

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Yep, rubber mallet the damn thing into oblivion. Sometimes I even laugh my head off. (Not true, I am usually pretty traumatized)

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