A California man is planning on suing The Venetian hotel in Las Vegas after a scorpion stung him on his testicles during a stay in December. (Image via mybedbuglawyer.inc)

A California man had an unwelcome visitor in his bed during a stay at a luxury Las Vegas hotel.

“I woke up with sharp pain in my private area,” Michael Farchi, 61, told Los Angeles ABC affiliate KABC. “Didn’t know what it was. I reached my hand to see what was happening under the covers and got another sharp pain.”

Farchi told Vegas CBS affiliate KLAS that it felt like somebody stabbing him with a “piece of glass or knife.” He ran to the bathroom and undressed to see an orange scorpion hanging on to his Reebok boxers. Farchi said the not-very-nice scorpion stung him at least three or four times.