Woman Attacked by Scorpion on Portland Bound Flight

Jeanne Marie Hoffman February 17, 2015 News 2 Comments

There’s a lot to worry about on flights. Â Injuries due to turbulence, angry anti-reclining zealots, and passengers that just ate at Ben’s Chili Bowl.

But a woman experienced something previously just part of Samuel L. Jackson’s darkest nightmares–scorpionsÂ on a plane.

While the airline still doesn’t know how the scorpions gotÂ onÂ the plane, a scorpion was successful in stinging a passenger on an Alaska AirlinesÂ LAX-PDX route.

Tough week for Beavs just got tougher. A scorpion just bit woman two rows in front of @waynetinkle. Plane had to go back to LAX. True story.

â€” Oregon State Hoops (@OregonStateMBB) February 15, 2015

Luckily, the sting happened before the flight actually took off. Â The results were nasty (KGW has a photo of the incident), but after a delay, the flight crew was able to get the MF scorpions off the MF plane.

2 comments

ffi
February 17, 2015 at 2:29 pm

ATTACKED?
Stung?
It is not as if the scorpion was looking for her and attacked her with premeditation.

- Jeanne Marie Hoffman
  February 17, 2015 at 2:34 pm
  
  I just meant it in a Samuel-L.-Jackson-The-Snakes-Are-After-Us parody. Just like snakes probably wouldn’t proactively go after passengers on a plane, nor would a shark flying through a cockpit take the time to attack a flight attendant (even if it IS Kelly Osborne).