After an unwanted visitor stayed in his room, a California man filed a lawsuit against a hotel in Las Vegas.
In a lawsuit acquired by a news outlet, Michael Farchi, 62, claimed that he woke up on December 26 at The Palazzo at The Venetian hotel to “a sharp stinging sensation in his groin area” when he and his wife were lying in a bed.
According to the case, which was submitted to Clark County District Court last week, he reached down and felt several stings on his hand.
According to the lawsuit, when Farchi called the hotel’s front desk, the staff members who arrived at the room “merely laughed at him.” He sought medical attention at the hospital. According to the lawsuit, he has allegedly experienced erectile problems ever since.
Farchi’s lawyer, Brian Virag, of the legal firm “My Bed Bug Lawyer,” said to the local news station that the action seeks “loss of consortium,” implying that the incident has affected Farchi’s relationship with his wife.
The hotel allegedly has a “duty of care” to provide a sanitary room that is “free of vermin, bed bugs, or similar things, including scorpions,” according to the lawsuit. Virag further claims that because of adjacent construction, the hotel has previously experienced scorpion problems.
Farchi described the experience as being similar to being stabbed with a “piece of glass or knife.”
When he got undressed from his sprint to the restroom, he saw an orange scorpion stuck to his Reebok boxers. Farchi claimed that the unfriendly scorpion stung him three or four times at the very least.
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In a recent interview, Virag—who is well-known for suing hotel and apartment complex owners with bedbug infestations—said, “Nobody staying in Vegas needs to exposed to deadly scorpions while they’re sleeping, let alone on their private parts, their testicles.”
Although they gave Virag a complimentary room for the night, hotel employees “were very dismissive and unapologetic,” Virag told The Daily Beast. The following day, Farchi and his family left the hotel.
“Scorpion stings are painful but rarely life-threatening,” according to the Mayo Clinic. According to the Seattle Children’s Hospital, bark scorpions, which normally have a length of 1.6 to 3 inches, can hurt, tingle, and produce numbness where they sting.
“The resort has protocols for all incidents and we can confirm they were followed in this incident,” the hotel said in a statement provided to media outlets. Ever since the lawsuit was filed, it has been silent.
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