What in the world! A California man says he was stung by a scorpion on his testicles while he was sleeping at the Venetian Las Vegas Hotel.
“I just felt like somebody stabbing me in my private area,” Michael Farchi told KLAS. “It felt like a sharp glass or a knife.”
The incident happened on December 26 incident. Farchi said he went to the restroom, and that’s when he saw a scorpion in his underwear.
“I didn’t even ask” how the arachnid got in the room, he added, “Nobody told me about any option, it just was under my cover.” He said he has filed a medical incident report with the hotel, writing, “I have been bitten by a scorpion at my groin/testicles,” adding the injury sustained was “a lot of pain.”
“Everybody was in shock. Nobody believed, even I couldn’t believe,” Farchi told the outlet.
“When you check into a hotel, you expect to be safe,” Farci’s lawyer, Brian Virag, told the outlet. “I’m certain that the Venetian, like every major hotel, has policies and procedures in place to try to avoid something like this. However it’s one thing to have policies and procedures in place, it’s another thing to make sure they’re followed.”
Scorpions are native to Nevada, and there are about 25 species that are “relatively harmless,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
A spokesperson for the Venetian Las Vegas tells PEOPLE that “the resort has protocols for all incidents and we can confirm they were followed in this incident.”
