A family was left shocked after discovering a live SCORPION in their kitchen - after it hitched a lift 6,000 miles back from Kenya.<br /><br />Liz Burrows, 50, and husband Ian, 52, arrived home with their 18-year-old daughter Daisy when they encountered the potentially dangerous creature on Sunday (8/10). <br /><br />The mum-of-two said she went to reach for the fridge when she spotted the scorpion in the middle of their kitchen floor with its "tail quivering". <br /><br />Liz said she wanted to get rid of the 3-4cm long intruder but hubby Ian managed to convince her to keep it and he scooped it up into a jar despite the potential risk.<br /><br />The financial planner, of King’s Cliffe, Northants., added: "We'd been out and got home and I went to the fridge and it was just in front of it on the floor.<br /><br />“My daughter looked down thinking it was a leaf at first.<br /><br />“It then became quite clear it was a scorpion. Its tail was quivering so it was still alive but it wasn't moving much, certainly not enough to send us running out the room. <br /><br />"I wanted to get rid of it straight away but my husband thought it was quite interesting and wanted to keep it. <br /><br />"I think my neighbours are quite anxious that we have a scorpion in the house."<br /><br />Daisy recently spent a month in Kenya and recognised the scorpion from her travels, which led the couple to believe it caught an unwarranted lift back to the UK.<br /><br />But with Daisy arriving back to the family home about two weeks ago it means the sneaky scorpion would have been in the house unnoticed for a fortnight.<br /><br />Liz added: "It must have hitched a lift with my daughter from Kenya because we've never had a scorpion in the house before.<br /><br />“I’m just hoping it doesn’t have any other friends. <br /><br />"I didn't share my husband's excitement. My first instinct was to kill it or dispose of it because of the risk to my family and the dogs.<br /><br />"We did some research online and we believe it could be a striped bark scorpion or a pygmy thick tail."<br /><br />The venom in the stings from these types of scorpion are rarely deadly but can be very painful, and in some cases dangerous.<br /><br />Ian used a piece of paper to pick up the scorpion and put it in a jar with breathing holes. However, the family believe it may not have survived.<br /><br />Ian, who is also a financial planner, added: “It’s exciting. You don’t often find a scorpion in the house. I was interested, which is why I put it in the jar.<br /><br />"However, sadly I think it's now an ex scorpion."
