1.   Only last week a scorpion stung you.

2.   So the tortoise took the scorpion on as a passenger -- and halfway across the river the scorpion stung him.

3.   But the scorpion did not sting the man, the daily Al Yawm reported Tuesday.

4.   One Palestinian, Amal Tawfiq, said officials from Egypt and Libya have even refused to treat her when a scorpion stung her while stranded on the border.