{"id":319449,"date":"2017-05-15T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=319449"},"modified":"2017-05-15T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T18:30:12","slug":"scorpion-terrorizes-united-airlines-flight-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=319449","title":{"rendered":"Scorpion terrorizes United Airlines flight again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text text\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;}}\" data-beacon-parsed=\"true\">\n<p>Another\u00a0scorpion invaded another United Airlines flight\u00a0from Houston <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_311135948\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span>, prompting an evacuation of the plane, Houston&#8217;s KHOU reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text text\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;}}\" data-beacon-parsed=\"true\">\n<p>A passenger told the station that the scorpion crawled out of the sleeve of a sleeping man in the back of the Quito, Ecuador-bound jet. Eek!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text text\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;}}\" data-beacon-parsed=\"true\">\n<p>That\u2019s when takeoff was delayed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The captain of my flight just told us it&#8217;s a scorpion on the plane???!!!!! Good job United! \ud83d\ude21\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Due\u00f1as (@DanielDue19) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielDue19\/status\/862822659536584705\">May 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text text\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;}}\" data-beacon-parsed=\"true\">\n<p>\u201cHouston to Quito flight 1035 returned to the gate after a scorpion reportedly emerged\u00a0from a customer\u2019s clothing,\u201d United said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text text\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;}}\" data-beacon-parsed=\"true\">\n<p>Another passenger reportedly saw the scorpion then crawl under the man\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text text\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;}}\" data-beacon-parsed=\"true\">\n<p>United said paramedics at the gate \u201cimmediately examined the customer and determined that he had not been stung.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text text\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;}}\" data-beacon-parsed=\"true\">\n<p><em>Unlike<\/em> the poor guy who did get stung by a scorpion on a United flight from Houston to Calgary last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text text\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;}}\" data-beacon-parsed=\"true\">\n<p>As for the most recent encounter, United told outlets it provided meal vouchers to all passengers for the hours-long delay, and the flight eventually departed to its destination with the guy who reportedly had the scorpion up his sleeve aboard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text text\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;}}\" data-beacon-parsed=\"true\">\n<p>On a different plane, thankfully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Huffington Post<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another\u00a0scorpion invaded another United Airlines flight\u00a0from Houston on Thursday, prompting an evacuation of the plane, Houston&#8217;s KHOU reported. A passenger told the station that the scorpion crawled out of the sleeve of a sleeping man in the back of the Quito, Ecuador-bound jet. Eek! That\u2019s when takeoff was delayed. The captain of my flight just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[7141,7142],"class_list":["post-319449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd","tag-scorpion","tag-united-airlines-flight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}