A 61-year-old California man is threatening to sue after claiming a scorpion stung his testicles while he was sleeping at what Forbes calls “the most opulent hotel in Las Vegas.”
Michael Farchi on Monday told Nevada station KLAS that he awoke in his Venetian hotel room around 8 a.m. on Dec. 26 to the feeling of “somebody stabbing me in my private area.”
Farchi went to his room’s bathroom, where he said he spotted an orange scorpion in his underwear.
Photos obtained by KLAS appear to show the desert-dwelling arachnid, at roughly an inch long, sitting on a pair of blue boxer briefs.
Farchi said a hospital visit confirmed he’d been stung by a scorpion.
“Everybody was in shock, nobody believed,” he said. “Even I couldn’t believe it.”
Farchi told the Daily Beast that Venetian staffers “were very dismissive and unapologetic” other than comping his room for one night.
The Venetian meanwhile told KLAS and the Daily Beast that it has “protocols for all incidents and we can confirm they were followed in this incident.”
Farchi checked out the day after his unwelcomed wake-up call, writing in an incident report that the sting left him in “a lot of pain.”
He said he has no idea how the scorpion got into his room, but blamed the Venetian, saying it must have already been “in the bed” when he got in.
Farchi has lawyered up and is now considering suing the posh hotel.
It’s not clear what kind of scorpion allegedly stung Farchi. A-Z Animals say Las Vegas’ three most commonly seen scorpions are the the venomous Arizona Bark Scorpion and less dangerous Emperor and Desert Hairy scorpions.
