Scorpion Stings Vermont Man on Airplane:

Sullivan, a 46-year-old builder from Stowe, was aboard the United Airlines flight on the second leg of his trip home from San Francisco, where he and his wife Helena had been visiting their sons. He awoke from a nap shortly before landing and noticed something strange.

‘My right leg felt like it was asleep, but that was isolated to one spot, and it felt like it was being jabbed with a sharp piece of plastic or something.’

New TSA regulations: all poisonous arachnids weighing less than three ounces must be carried in separate zip-top bags.