I was driving behind my parents saturday morning on the way to my gran's 80th birthday. We stopped a traffic light and suddenly see my mom clinging to the roof of the passenger side and what looked like my dad trying to get something out of her ass.

I few second later my mom jumped out of the car and came running to my car. Just as the light turned green for us. She shouted: "Theres a scorpion in my car!" and ran to the side walk. We had to drive off so we don't block the traffic (we were in the main road). We pulled off and started searching the car, with no luck.

When my mom finally caught up with us on foot, she refused to get in her car so she got into mine and we went off to the party. All the way there you could see my dad growing more anxious and fidgeting. When we got there I searched for it again, but couldn't find it.

When we finally got home, I went to work dismantling my mom's BMW 120i in search of the culprit. Funny enough my mom did not object to me taking her car appart I took out the seat, the speaker cover under the seat. I then took out the speaker and its whole mounting and then all of the surrounding upholstery. When I reached the body work, I found the bugger.

Before he found his way there, he was between the sun visor and the roof. When my mom flipped it down to do her make-up. He fell on her lap and panic ensued.

So can anyone ID it? It looks alot like an Emperor, but does not have the shiny finish?

Looks like an Opistacanthus species.
One of the Families/genera that require permits.

Jonathan from Scorpions.co.za said its a Opistacanthus Asper.

Trying to find out what their ranges are now.

Swifty what went through your mind when you saw your mom clinging to the roof?

The people must off wondered what the hell is going on!
But I Must say, something like that is so unexpected, would of loved to be fly on the roof just to hear the conversation that went on when the scorp came out.

It is a good thing it came out on your mom's side and not on your dads side, the drivers side is a bit more tighter to get out fast.

It does look like a Opistacanthus species.
Common name and general term burrowing scorpion.

Honestly, I was dumbfounded. Well & truly a WTF moment for me. Funny as hell seeing my mom with her but just about up against the passenger side window As for the conversation, I think it was rather one sided and, knowing my mom, it went something like this: "Fok! Fok! Fok! Fok!"

Luckily we were stationary when this happend.