Just a reminder from the Associated Press about the terror-able risks of flying:

“It felt like a shock, a tingly thing. Someone screamed, ‘It’s a scorpion,'” Sullivan recalled. Another passenger stepped on the two-inch arachnid. Someone suggested Sullivan seek medical help.

He scooped up the scorpion as a specimen and headed to the hospital in Burlington. Mrs. Sullivan stopped at the United counter and was told the plane they were on had flown from Houston to Chicago. The Sullivans surmised the scorpion boarded in Texas.

“The airlines tell you you can’t bring water or shampoo on a plane,” Mrs. Sullivan said, referring to recent security restrictions. “All the security we go through” apparently didn’t apply to the scorpion, she said.

Sneaky scorpions. The government should require them to carry identification.