Spiderman!
No, not the movie that shattered box office records over the weekend, this is about a real spiderman. Or rather, a spiderboy. As in a 9-year old boy who had two spiders living happily inside his left ear.
ALBANY, Ore. - These guys weren't 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.
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.
Of course, this just proves that spiders are always listening. They are the prime intelligence agents of the Animal Uprising™. But this does mean that Snopes will have to revise their entry on insects entering people's ears to eat their way through to the other side! While there is no evidence that the spiders in question were actually trying to eat through the lad's head, they may have been running a profitable earwax mine.
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Blue Crab Boulevard » Killer Bugs — Monday, 7 May , 2007 @ 8:13 am
By BlogDog, Monday, 7 May , 2007 @ 8:19 am
Spiders are the ninjas of the Animal Uprisingâ„¢ - quiet, stealthy, deadly. Two legs - good. Eight legs - bad!