>True story (original)...
>
>I once oversaw the management of a small downtown office building in 
>Phoenix which was leased in part to a major regional bank.  The bank kept 
>complaining of scorpions in the building.  Desert scorpions are small
>critters with a nasty sting, much like a bee sting.  And, the bank's
>secretaries would sit on the floor to go through bottom file drawers and 
>sometimes would get stung on the behind.  
>
>So the building manager called the pest control company and they sprayed
>the building.  Still got complaints.  Sprayed again.  Still complaints.
>
>Clearly another strategy was needed.  The pest control contractor 
>pointed out that scorpions are unusual in downtown Phoenix and there were 
>no complaints from other tenants on other floors of the building.  He and
>the building manager concluded that the bank itself was bringing the 
>scorpions into the building from their record center warehouse out in the 
>desert.  They alerted the bank to this source of the problem, but the bank 
>refused to take any counter measures and continued to complain that it 
>was a building problem.
>
>After several more sprayings, we started to get concerned about the 
>risks of putting more insecticide into the building.  Our pest control 
>contractor was adamant that sprayings would do no good if scorpions
>kept being reintroduced into the building with each delivery to the
>bank from its records warehouse.  So I asked the pest control contractor
>and the building manager to look into the possiblity of environmentally
>safer biological controls such as natural enemies of the scorpion.
>
>A few days later I received a copy of a memorandum from the building 
>manager to the bank facilities department.  He had also posted a copy 
>of this memo on the bank employees' bulletin board:
>
>   "Building management recognizes recent employee complaints 
>   of scorpions in the bank's records management areas.  We have 
>   attempted to use pesticides but fear that increasing the level 
>   of pesticide could pose a health risk for some employees.  
>
>   "Because scorpions are native to our desert country and appear to
>   be entering the building in the storage boxes delivered from 
>   the bank's desert warehouse, we have researched safer natural 
>   biological controls such as those which keep scorpions in check in 
>   their desert environment.  We have found that scorpions have only 
>   one natural enemy.
>
>   "Should there be any further complaints from the bank or its
>   employees on this matter, building management will be pleased to 
>   introduce rattlesnakes into the records management areas."
>
>We had no more complaints.
>
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