A 34-year-old Iraqi farmer claims that he has been consuming live scorpions every day for the past fifteen years and is addicted to them.
Ismail Jasim Mohammed, a resident of Samarra in Iraq, said he became tired of getting stung by the dangerous creatures.
So, he decided to turn the tables on the creatures and do the biting.
Mohammed has been living on scorpions and snakes for 15 years now, 'New York Daily News' reported.
And after eating scorpions for a decade and a half, Mohammed says that he is now addicted, according to NBCNews.Com.
Moreover, Mohammed says he has been stung by the scorpions so many times in the mouth that he has developed an immunity to their venom.
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