Posts Tagged The Scorpion King

I’ve had a couple of posts in the past that I have called “Only In L.A. Moments”.  With this story I am expanding out to an “Only in California Story”.  My son Dan lives in the O.C. more specifically North Tustin in Orange County, California.  He lives in a house with several friends including a filmmaker.  The filmmaker is in the middle of shooting the short film The 20 Second Rule with a sub-plot line that involves a character of a Voodoo Princess.  Dan returned home late Saturday to find a film crew at the house wrapping up a day of shooting the Voodoo scenes.  The filmmaker roommate took Dan aside and said he had some really bad news.  While they were filming a scene with the Voodoo Princess a live scorpion they were using as part of the scene escaped.  They tried to find him but had no luck.  So there’s a live scorpion somewhere in the house.  Of course since this is a movie, they couldn’t use a little scorpion that wouldn’t show well on camera. They had to use a really big scorpion.  The good news was it was the kind of scorpion that is not venomous.  It’s the kind whose sting won’t kill you, but it is painful.  The woman who brought the scorpion thinks, but is not sure, that the scorpion had his stinger removed.  She went on to tell everyone that scorpions apparently like dark cool places like closets and to be careful putting on your shoes.  I joked with Dan that it was better they liked shoes instead of something like an underwear drawer.

UPDATE: One week later the scorpion was caught!  Here is a picture of the scorpion in a jar…and here is another picture showing how big and ugly the scorpion is.