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You can hardly blame him for looking dodgy—you'd have a complex too if everyone
you encountered screamed and ran away in terror. Plus, his fangs looked moist, as if he
were drooling, which isn't a particularly attractive look on anyone.
Then there are centipedes, which can grow up to a foot long and are almost always
grumpy when disturbed. Their sting can be terrifically painful, even lethal on rare occa-
sions.
I read a blog recently, in which a college student described waking up one morning in
a B&B in Esperanza, to find an enormous centipede crawling up his bare thigh towards his
private parts. His yelp of horror brought the management bolting upstairs, fearing fire, dis-
memberment or God knows what else.
When they learned the source of their guest's panic they couldn't help laughing (though
sympathetically, I'm sure) at his predicament.
I ought to sue those bastards
, he grumbled in his blog.
Might as well sue Mother Nature.
To make things even more exciting, there are scorpions in Vieques. Although shy by
nature, if disturbed they will make their displeasure known in no uncertain terms with a
nasty sting.
We're constantly being assured that none of these insects (except maybe the centipede)
is particularly poisonous. In the abstract, I find this somewhat comforting. But if I dis-
covered a centipede crawling up my leg, I'm not sure my reaction would be appreciably
more mature than the college student's shrieks of horror.
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