# There is a fucking SCORPION in my room! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2001, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796 "2001-09-15T09:32:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/81 "2001-10-02T18:20:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\*No, that would have been, “There’s a scorpion _fucking_ in my room,” and, technically, there needn’t be any assumption that the object of its affection would necessarily be another scorpion; he may have a prediliction for, say, wolf spiders, cockroaches, stuffed animals, or, perhaps, Osama bin Laden (one would hope). > > Esprix \*\* Memo to self: Never, ever go into Esprix’s room. Ever. He’s got some really strange stuff in there. Aside to CIA: You know that Osama you’ve been looking for? You might want to check Esprix’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/82 "2001-10-02T19:56:49Z")
Jeez, **Esprix** , we lived in La Jolla (UTC) for two years, and I never saw anything worse than a spider. Same for Boulder, CO, except for roadkill. Now we live up in Orange County, our property backs onto a canyon, and I still don’t have those kind of close encounters! Although we do have coyotes, or kit foxes, or whatever the hell was screaming like a woman being tortured late last night… If it had been me, I would have already moved. Wimpy? Oh hell yes. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/83 "2001-10-03T00:07:44Z")
Geez, **Esprix** , you sound like my mother. She’s terrified of spiders (especially tarantulas), scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, and snakes. I can’t tell you the number of times my father, my brothers and I have had to capture and/or kill these things for her. If it wasn’t venomous, we were satisfied with simply capturing it and letting it go. ---
**Author:** ![wkearney99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@wkearney99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wkearney99)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/84 "2001-10-03T14:22:42Z")
As if fire ants wasn’t bad enough… I was living in Austin Texas at the time. I came home one afternoon and found a scorpion IN THE TOILET. Nobody but me had been home. It was a tiled bathroom. I can’t imagine HOW the thing got into the bowl. Imagine, getting stung whist on the throne. Being found dead like Elvis isn’t my idea of a respectable way to expire. Suffice to say, I used the office bathroom for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/85 "2001-10-03T16:20:47Z")
Great - one more place to check from now on. ☹ Esprix ---
**Author:** ![witchylioness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@witchylioness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/witchylioness)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/86 "2001-10-03T18:55:39Z")
I clicked! ack! eek! ick! I clicked on the first link and looked. I was whisked away via memory to the day in Saudi when a scorpion nonchallantly waltzed across the floor of my tent and STARED at me trying to figure out which parts to begin munching on first. I promptly (or not so promptly, as I was frozen in my spot for a while) got up, jumped on top of the cot I was on, and cot-hopped across the room and out the tent screaming like a pansy little bitch. Of course I am a girl, and a bitch, so it was ok. What upset me most is that I was told “oh, it’ll go away”. and it did. but go WHERE??? I itched for days thinking it was on me. Look, I have hives coming out as we talk. So has it moved yet? Did you poke it with a stick? ---
**Author:** ![K\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9bd4f/32.png) [@K\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K_Son)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/87 "2001-10-03T20:21:37Z")
If the worst thing you’ve ever found in a toilet bowl is a scorpion than consider yourself lucky. I work at a fast food chain. I won’t divulge which one, nor the location of said fine “dining” establishment. Anyway, I have seen things that would make scorpions throw themselves under boots, car wheels, and the like in case it came to get them. ---
**Author:** ![HairyPotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@HairyPotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HairyPotter)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/88 "2001-10-04T00:31:53Z")
I’m so glad I live in Cleveland. The worst things we have are muggers and crooked politicians, and neither one ever attacks from one’s toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Raving\_Nude\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cab0a1/32.png) [@Raving\_Nude\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raving_Nude_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/89 "2001-10-04T06:41:29Z")
Come on people, it’s just a little damn bug with a stinger on one end. I live outside of Austin Texas and everytime I get stung by one it hurts less then the time before. All you do is curse, empty out your boot or tear off the shirt you were putting on and smash the little beast. In an hour or two the swelling goes down and in two days the soreness is gone. Oh, if you want to handle one and not damage it, use tweezers on the tail. As far as the Brown Recluse spiders go, they are pretty fragile. Any kind of a direct blow and they are paste. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/90 "2001-10-04T07:42:04Z")
oh give me a BREAK! at least it wasnt a 30mph running, 5ft high jumping, 8 inch long, hyper aggressive, FACE EATING camel spider…to bad something awful had to go pay or I’d dig up the thread for ya. “my buddy saw it coming and turned to run, but the fucking thing caught him climbed up his back and bit him in the FACE” was just one of the little stories from the gulf war. note called camel spider cause it eats CAMELS ---
**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/91 "2001-10-04T07:46:51Z")
Scorpions? Hate em. Hate em with a passion. I especially hate their dumb song “Rock You Like a Hurricane.” ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/92 "2001-10-04T13:53:18Z")
When I lived in New Mexico, my apartment was on the very edge of the city, adjacent to BLM land and an endless stretch of desert. Even though I lived in a second floor apartment, I’d get scorpions every other week or so – and the worst part was they they were the exact same color of the “Landlord Tan” rug. Here in Florida, a place that’s supposedly notorious for insects, I don’t really find any bugs in the house. I do, however, come across little frogs and lizards every so often. My dog is so gentle, she just watches them with wonder, occaionally stretching out to get a close sniff. The thought of a lizard as a playtoy of sorts doesn’t even cross her mind. The apartment before I moved into the house, OTOH … brown recluse spiders aplenty. ARGH! ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/93 "2001-10-04T17:43:25Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **HairyPotter** _ > > I’m so glad I live in Cleveland. The worst things we have are muggers and crooked politicians, and neither one ever attacks from one’s toilet. Sounds like your criminals need to get a little more creative. 😉 > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Critical1** _ > > at least it wasnt a 30mph running, 5ft high jumping, 8 inch long, hyper aggressive, FACE EATING camel spider… > > “my buddy saw it coming and turned to run, but the fucking thing caught him climbed up his back and bit him in the FACE” Sounds more like one of our boys was smoking a little package from home while watching “Aliens.” 😉 **Chas.E** , pay attention, boy - that joke was done within the first ten posts. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **elmwood** _ > > When I lived in New Mexico… Well it’s not like you were part of the United States or anything… 😃 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Cyrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Cyrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyrin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/94 "2001-10-05T14:42:02Z")
I found Bird in my friends toilet. (It was dead:() A full grown female cardinal! Anyone care to offer explanation for that one? (Maybe a scorpion got him and dragged him in there? 😕 ) ---
**Author:** ![Bhudda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@Bhudda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bhudda)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/95 "2001-10-05T19:44:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Çyrin \* > \*\*I found Bird in my friends toilet. (It was dead:() A full grown female cardinal! Anyone care to offer explanation for that one? (Maybe a scorpion got him and dragged him in there? 😕 ) \*\* Perhaps your friend just has a rather exotic diet? ---
**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/96 "2001-10-05T20:03:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > **Chas.E, pay attention, boy - that joke was done within the first ten posts.** Well exqueeze me. I reviewed the thread, watching to see if anyone had done it, and didn’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![Cyrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Cyrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyrin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/97 "2001-10-05T20:07:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bhudda \* > \*\*Perhaps your friend just has a rather exotic diet? \*\* LOL! Perhaps! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/98 "2001-10-05T21:57:23Z")
Tut tut, lad - you should never ask me to point out the obvious: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Chas.E** _ > > Scorpions? Hate em. Hate em with a passion. I especially hate their dumb song “Rock You Like a Hurricane.” > > 10-04-2001 12:46 AM > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **racinchikki** _ > > yeah, those scorpions can be a bitch. but if you buy 'em a beer they’ll play “rock you like a hurricane” for ya. > > 09-15-2001 04:32 PM Now read more carefully next time or the ghost of Eduardo will haunt your shoes and toilet _for all eternity!_ :eek: Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Cyrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Cyrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyrin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/99 "2001-10-05T22:44:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > **…or the ghost of Eduardo will haunt your shoes and toilet _for all eternity!_ :eek:** “No not my toilet! That’s where I do my best thinking!” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796/100 "2001-10-05T23:35:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > **Now read more carefully next time or the ghost of Eduardo will haunt your shoes and toilet _for all eternity!_ :eek:** I really need new eyeglasses. Or maybe a larger screen font. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fucking-scorpion-in-my-room/81796.md?page=6)