Woman beds down with 3,000 scorpions PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) -- Just one's enough to give anyone the creeps. When there are 3,000 of them and they're all in your room, it's the stuff of nightmares. But Kanchana Ketkeaw, a 30-year-old Thai woman hoping to break the world record for the longest stay in a room full of scorpions, is confident she won't lose any sleep when she beds down for the next 32 days with her deadly roommates. Kanchana began the attempt Saturday in a specially made glass-walled room at a shopping mall at a Thai beach resort, watched by scores of amazed onlookers. She performs with scorpions every day as a tourist attraction -- putting them in her mouth as part of the routine -- and knows what it's like to be stung. "If I don't do anything to them, if I'm not hurting them, then they won't hurt me," Kanchana said before entering the 12-square-meter (130-square-foot) room, which has a bed, a toilet, a television, a table and a chair. The current world record was set last year by a Malaysian woman who endured 30 days with 2,700 scorpions. She was stung seven times, fell unconscious and almost gave up the attempt. Kanchana will be allowed to leave her room for 15 minutes every eight hours. She shrugged off the danger. She posed for photographers, pulling scorpions from a basket and putting them on her body. Officials then released the remaining scorpions into the room. They spread across the floor, crawled over the chair and up an artificial tree. A doctor will be on hand, and there's a hospital nearby. "It's very dangerous for someone's who's never been exposed or never been bitten by scorpions," said Dr. Supoj Wateesatogkit of the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital. "But I understand she has been bitten so many times that she has developed immunity, so the most she'll have if she is bitten is some swelling and pain, which isn't serious," he said.
I've been stung by a relatively small (3 inches) Scorpion on my leg before...Let me tell you the pain is excruciating (BIGTIME)...It felt like a large, hot nail being slowly pushed into your leg....It really, really hurt! These critters look even more dangerous and larger! I wouldn't want to be her
Out of curiosity, where does one get 3,000 scorpions. Are there scorpion farms? Do scorpion breeders mate the biggest ones? How do you even tell if one is male or female? Do they collect them from the wild? What do they eat? How much scorpion crap can 3,000 scorpions produce in a month? The logisitics here fascinate me.
I HATE scorpions. They are so creepy. I found a small one, about 1 1/2 inches long, in my apartment on Friday.
you guys know my story about getting stung by scorpions in my sleep, right??? it happened twice!!! this lady is nuts!
a 30-year-old Thai woman hoping to break the world record for the longest stay in a room full of scorpions Why is there even a world record for this? Kanchana will be allowed to leave her room for 15 minutes every eight hours. This seems like cheating.
in a way i thought that. But anyway. Some people can get stung enough times to the point they can become immune to over 100 stings.
