Scorpion Hunters

My husband and our neighbor Shane forged a bond early this summer over their mutual dislike of scorpions. Together they are…. the scorpion hunters. On their nightly hunts they kill and collect scorpions saving the neighbors and their children from a fate undeserved. There are many ways to kill scorpions, but my husband’s favorite is smashing them with the end of the screw driver. His second favorite way is to burn them (apparently favorite way of many fellow scorpion hunters) as is necessary when they retreat into cracks. Fortunately, this year it is forbidden to bring the pregnant females into the house and dissect them – apparently a favorite past time for Shane as well.

Like most scorpion hunters Erkan (my husband) and Shane are equipped with the usual gadgets: black light, flame thrower, and squishing device. The area they cover is vast. Not only do these fearless hunters search and protect their own homes, but they survey the walls of all those living near them in an effort to extinguish the vermin. At the end of each night they tally up their kills and in true engineering/nerd fashion my husband enters the number into an Excel spreadsheet for future reference. I don’t know what Shane does, but as an inventor of unique items I am sure he is engineering a device capable of mass scorpion destruction. May they continue to protect those who are unable to protect themselves.