The electrical and electronic engineering student said: “I unzipped the outer packaging and saw something move and was like, what’s this?”
After realising it was a scorpion, Ms Alonso-Mossinger, 18, rezipped the bag containing a pair of boots, got it out of her room and called her flatmates.
“I thought I was dreaming,” she said. “I feel like I am all right with spiders and things but it was scary being in my room with a random scorpion.”
Phoebe Hunt, 18, said she heard screaming and rushed out to find her flatmate with “a live scorpion in a bag on her boots”.
She said they were “not exactly buzzing to have a scorpion in the flat”.
“At first, I’ll be honest, I said we should kill it and then everyone pointed out that wasn’t the most humane thing so we scooped it up and put it in a Tupperware.”
Oliver James, another flatmate who is studying zoology, transferred the scorpion into a plastic container with kitchen tongs.
“It was a bit nerve-wracking,” he said, as no one knew how venomous it was.
