A MAN has filed a lawsuit against a Las Vegas Strip resort, claiming his sex life was ruined after being stung in the groin by a scorpion during his stay.
Michael Farchi, 62, was vacationing at The Venetian Resort last Christmas when he claims he woke up in excruciating pain when a scorpion crawled into his underpants and stung his testicles.
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“I just felt like somebody stabbing me in my private area,” Farchi told CBS affiliate KLAS in March.
When he went to the bathroom, Farchi said he saw a scorpion hanging by his underwear.
Farchi, who is from Agora Hills, California, said the sting felt like a “sharp glass or a knife.”
But now, ever since that harrowing day last December, Farchi said he’s suffered from PTSD, and it ruined his sex life with his wife.
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“I can also indicate, as you saw in the complaint, we’re also making a claim for loss of consortium for Mr. Farchi’s wife,” Farchi’s attorney, Brian Virag, told KLAS.
Virag is suing the hotel on half of both Farchi and his wife, who claims the couple’s sex life has suffered dearly since the incident.
In the lawsuit, filed on August 27, Virag said the hotel owed “a duty of care to Plaintiffs to provide a clean, safe, and sanitary room… that was free of vermin, bed bugs, or similar things, including scorpions.”
The lawsuit included a photo of the yellow-colored scorpion hanging on to Farchi’s blue underwear.
“It really doesn’t matter so much how it got there,” Virag told the outlet.
“The fact that it was there and they were on notice that there was prior issues of scorpions at the subject property, that’s obviously that main point here.”
The Agora Hills resident also claimed that when he informed hotel staff that he was bitten in the groin by a scorpion, they didn’t take him seriously and “mocked him.”
“They were just holding their groin area and laughing about it,” Farchi told the outlet.
“It was really embarrassing.”
Farchi said when he went to the hospital, he was diagnosed with poisoning: scorpion sting, according to the suit.
In fact, between September 2023 and January, Southern Nevada Health District inspectors confirmed multiple reports of bed bugs found in rooms at the Venetian, Excalibur, Encore, and the Mirage.
The first bed bug spotting was at the Venetian in September 2023 after a guest complained to housekeeping and contacted the health district for an inspection.
A pest control company inspected the room, and it was found to have bed bugs.
The room was treated and returned to service within a few days, according to the complaint.
Farchi’s looking for a jury trial to decide whether the hotel should compensate him for his damages, including suffering from erectile dysfunction.
“Many effects on my family, my work, everything, he added.
The U.S. Sun has reached out to The Venetian Resort for comment.
