Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'

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Do scorpions infest a building like rats or cockroaches? I thought one might wander in but not that they're setting up nests inside.

The Venetian is not in a rural area, so I would think it's more likely it came in with this guy's luggage or clothing after they had been out somewhere.

It doesn't seem like you could pin it on the hotel's negligence.

(Also seeing the picture of that guy and his lawyer does not make me more likely to support him.)

Edit: I was curious and googled around - lot of pest companies who want to help you with your scorpion problem, but sounds like it's more often the lawn/pool and the house is an accident:

"Are Scorpions Attracted To The Inside Of My House?

Scorpions are not drawn to your home more than any other place in your yard. In most places, it is rare to get scorpions in your home. Scorpions have poor eyesight and use touch as the main guide to finding habitats. They look for small cracks to crawl in. Usually, they are found in the home by accident unless you have another pest problem that is supplying food for the scorpions. If you are purchasing a vacant home there is a higher probability that scorpions are inside the home."

If a singular rat had run in the alley door and bit a patron, abso-fucking-lutely. I expect places serving people food or shelter to be clean, not literally unenterable by vermin. They don't make pest force fields.

The presence of one pest is not an infestation, it's a call to action to make sure an infestation doesn't happen. I'm not saying that the resort should do nothing now. They should have the place sprayed (or likely sprayed again, because they probably already are) at minimum, and probably have pest control do a targeted look for signs of an infestation just to be safe.

The only way that the resort should be liable to the presence of a single pest is if it had not done what could reasonably be expected to prevent infestations or did nothing to address it after the fact. Expecting that they keep literally every single bug out of the property is not reasonable. It's impossible.

Now, if he had reason to believe or evidence to show that the resort had not done the minimum expected due diligence to prevent pests and that had resulted in his injury, then yes, by all means blame them. Maybe he does have that. Maybe he or other patrons have seen a lot of pests on the property. Or there may even have been others with scorpion injuries before. If it's apparent that the resort did not take action when signs of infestation were obvious or reported to them, that's negligence. They should be sued for that. But if a single random incident is all that he has... that's not grounds for claiming they're negligent.

Seriously. What the fuck stupidity do you have to engage in to be stung in the testicles.

"I was minding my own business" Sure! And people go to the emergency room for accidentally sitting directly on large elongated objects.

Stayed the night in a friend's family lake cabin at Dale Hollow in Tennessee, once. We had to kill two scorpions in 24 hours. One crawled up the drain in the kitchen sink, the other had crawled up the drain in the shower.

I was the lucky one to find the shower one. I started to go to crush it with a piece of toilet paper in hand like I would a spider, but thought better of it. Instead, I used a shampoo bottle to crush it and I'm glad I did. In its death spasms, it's stinger stabbed the shampoo bottle like 4 times. Glad that wasn't my hand.

The one in the sink, came crawling up when my friend's mom started running the water, and she crushed it with a glass.

Even though I was lived in the area for 3 years, like 15-20 minutes away, and my sister is even closer, like 5-10 minutes away, I hadn't ever seen a live scorpion. Nor have I seen one since. But right around the lake, apparently, they're fucking everywhere.