DAVID LYNN: Well I was asleep in bed and my girlfriend was sitting up in bed watching the television and she screamed which woke me up and I moved my hand up from my side and then I screamed.
My initial thought was, why are you sticking needles in my hand, because I was still half asleep. but then when we pulled the covers back we saw the scorpion sat there flailing its tail around. Then my girlfriend took a size six training shoe and battered it to death. Within half an hour, her leg was paralysed and couldn't feel it and my hand had gone numb. I didn't get much of the poison but it was still enough to numb my fingers and it was three hours before we could get to the hospital. No-one in the hotel could tell us if it was a bad scorpion and we only found out at the hospital when my girlfriend was in serious pain at that time. We got back to the hotel at 3.30am and then up for a 4.30am restart. But it didn't stop me. It was quite an experience. Not only did we not sleep much for the rest of the week, I don't think anyone else in the hotel did, either.
Q. Must have been frightening though?
DAVID LYNN: It was all very surreal when it was happening. We were actually laughing in the ambulance when we were doing 100mph with all the sirens going, we were both laughing. It's a good pub story, though.
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