Fox News anchorman Bill Hemmer is still wondering how a 6-inch-long scorpion got into his Greenwich Village apartment and stung him on the foot.
Hemmer, who lives on the top floor of a 17-story building, got out of bed in the middle of the night.
As he shuffled in the dark, he felt a sharp pain in his foot.
“I thought I was either electrocuted, or broke a bone,” Hemmer told me.
The mystified broadcaster went to an equally mystified neurologist the next day because he didn’t feel well, but his symptoms subsided. A couple of days later, Hemmer’s brave cleaning lady crushed the huge scorpion on his kitchen floor and sent him a photo of the corpse.
Scorpions are not among New York’s 589 common bugs and insects listed by InsectIdentification.org and mostly live in the Southwest.
“How in the world did it get there?” asked the early-rising newsman.
As for his housekeeper: “She gets a raise.”