Fox News anchorman Bill Hemmer is still wondering how a 6-inch-long scorpion got into his Greenwich Village apartment and stung him on the foot.

Hemmer, who lives on the top floor of a 17-story building, got out of bed in the middle of the night.

As he shuffled in the dark, he felt a sharp pain in his foot.

“I thought I was either electrocuted, or broke a bone,” Hemmer told me.

The mystified broadcaster went to an equally mystified neurologist the next day because he didn’t feel well, but his symptoms subsided. A couple of days later, Hemmer’s brave cleaning lady crushed the huge scorpion on his kitchen floor and sent him a photo of the corpse.

Scorpions are not among New York’s 589 common bugs and insects listed by InsectIdentification.org[1] and mostly live in the Southwest.

“How in the world did it get there?” asked the early-rising newsman.

As for his housekeeper: “She gets a raise.”

References

  1. ^ listed by InsectIdentification.org (www.insectidentification.org)

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