I'm sort of an obsessive shoe shaker. But, the only time I have ever found a scorpion in my footwear was a few years back when I shook a dead bark scorpion out of a pair of shoes that had been in my bedroom closet unworn for at least two years. Of course my feet don't smell, so the wee beastie must have been drawn by the scent of roses. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I called in the local exterminator for a spray job.