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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
During my brief stay in the Negev Desert in Israel, I was warned to always shake out my shoes before I put them on in case there was a scorpion in them. Which is when I knew it would be a brief stay.
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I was at an underground archaeological dig in the Negev. I was sitting on the ground in the line passing buckets of dirt when I looked down and one of these little bastards is about a foot from my leg. I jumped up and squealed like a pre-pubescent pig while doing the cowards version of the Heisman pose. One of the locals casually walked up and crushed it with a rock.
When I lived in Australia we made sure that we always shook out our shoes. Never had a scorpion but there were some nasty spiders.