Check your ears for spiders ASAP

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ALBANY, Oregon (AP) -- These guys were not exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop.

What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear -- "like Rice Krispies" -- ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.

"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.(Watch how an earache led to the creepy discovery Video)

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear -- "like Rice Krispies."

Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.

When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.

Jesse was given the spiders -- now both dead -- as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/07/spiderboy.ap/index.html


This is my nomination for disgusting story of the year.

 

[Masquerouge]

I understand how this could be the most awesome moment in a 9-year-old life

 

[Godwynn]

He looks so happy for having arachnids in his ear.

 

[Kozmos]

**** I would have been traumatized.

 

[Moss]

Hence why it is good to not have ears...

 

[Stylesjl]

Ghastly buisness that is.....

 

[Mirc]

Wow, I certainly don't want to be in that guy's shoes. I just hate spiders, and having one in my ear...

 

[Tee Kay]

That has to be my worst type of nightmare. I can imagine my reaction seeing spiders crawling out of my ear.

SPIDERS!!!!!!!! ARGGGGHGHGHGHGHGHGHHHHH10010101010101!!!!!!

 

[Tykinruoka]

There's lots of spiders in my house, but they've never went into my ear. Having a spider living in your ear could be a interesting experience. As long as it doesn't burrow any deeper.

 

[ArneHD]

Thank the second law of thermodynamics he isn't aracnophobic.

 

[Golden Touch]

that is sick. I remember watching a star trek programme as a kid where they had these massive worm things in their ears. it freaked me out for years. ewwww *shudder*

 

[soul_warrior]

groovy

can we cultivate these?
we could start selling this to 9 yr olds, they get stay at home days, we get thier lunchmoney

 

[Prince_Imrahil]

I read somewhere once that the average person eats about 800 spiders during their lifetime while they sleep, let alone some crawling in the ears of some random kid...

 

[cthom]

yeah, i read this story this morning. don't forget, you *swallow* many more spiders in your life-time

 

[Mirc]

I read somewhere once that the average person eats about 800 spiders during their lifetime while they sleep, let alone some crawling in the ears of some random kid...

What? How? How small are they?

 

[Prince_Imrahil]

...actually it was an urban legend type thingy I remember now...

 

[IglooDame]

Earache... arachnid... can't be a coincidence that the two words sound so much alike...


Particularly if you can't hear well because of... ummm...

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

weird people :shakehead:

 

[Leonel]

I like spiders but not inside me!

This is my worst fear manifested.

 

[Catharsis]

They Put Creatures. In His Ears!