United Airlines Passenger Stung By A Scorpion Whose Ticket Was Probably Bought By Dr. Bloody Mouth
Guardian- A Canadian man is seeking compensation from United Airlines over claims that a scorpion dropped on his head – and later stung him – just as he was tucking into his lunch on a business-class flight.
“While I was eating, something fell in my hair from the overhead above me,” Richard Bell told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “I picked it up, and it was a scorpion. And I was holding it out by the tail, so it couldn’t really sting me then.”
A fellow passenger on the Sunday flight from Houston to Calgary warned him that the eight-legged creature – honey-coloured, about an inch and a half long and described as a “little lobster” by Bell’s wife – was a scorpion and could be dangerous.
”So I dropped it on my plate and then I went to pick it up again, and that’s when it stung me,” said Bell. “It got my nail, mostly.”
The scorpion likely hitched a ride in someone’s luggage, said Bell. While he has no plans to launch a lawsuit against the airline, he hoped they would offer him a travel credit or some sort of compensation for his ordeal. “It’s just one of those things that happens, right?” he told the CBC.
Never a dull moment on a United flight these days. Holy shit. Has there ever been a worse month for a company? First off, they refuse to let 3 girls (including a 12-year-old) fly because they were wearing leggings. Then, the incident we’re all sick of hearing about: an Asian doctor goes deadfish, refuses to leave his seat, and gets hauled off like a dead deer. And just when you think it can’t get any worse, we’ve got scorpions falling from the overhead compartment… in BUSINESS CLASS NO LESS!
Luckily for United, the flight attendants read the “how to avoid more PR disasters” memo:
As the flight sat on the tarmac, customs officials also came onboard, hoping to get a glimpse of the scorpion, but at that point it had already been flushed down the toilet.
Destroy the evidence 101. Scorpion? What scorpion? That thing we flushed down the toilet? No, that was… that was a friendly spider. With a tail.
How about the passenger who got stung, saying he won’t sue because “it’s just one of those things that happens?” Buddy… this is decidedly NOT something that happens. If I’m in his shoes, I’m not settling for anything less than lifetime first class seats plus a goddamn pilot’s license. You can believe I’ll be getting us there faster if I think there are fucking scorpions aboard.