Years go by and you don’t hear a thing about Costa Rica, then suddenly it’s all you hear about. Both Brad and Angelina and our own Randy Barbato were just there over the holidays. And now the Central American country is in the news again because someone boarded a plane bound for Toronto with a stowaway in his backpack. A scorpion apparently found its way into a man’s gear when he was on a camping trip and, during the flight, it crawled out from the smelly socks and fetid underwear and stung the man on his knee. Not quite the tumult of Snakes on a Plane, and it turned out the creature was of the non-lethal variety; still, passengers making the return flight to Miami were kept waiting an hour while a sweep was made for other arachnids. (Source)