Shhhhhh! We’re Being Bugged!
The Animal Uprising™ has stepped up its intelligence gathering operations. Now you not only have to worry about whether your pets may be listening and gathering information about you to pass along to the animal overlords, you also have to worry about being bugged. And the real problem, as always with the Animal Uprising™ is that "being bugged" is not just an expression. They use real bugs. Planted in your head.
CARBONDALE, Colo. - Doctors thought the strange, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas' head might be from gnat bites or shingles. Then the bumps started moving.
A doctor found five active bot fly larvae living beneath the skin atop Dallas' head.
"I'd put my hand back there and feel them moving. I thought it was blood coursing through my head," Dallas told the (Glenwood Springs) Post Independent.
"I could hear them. I actually thought I was going crazy."
Dallas said he likely received the larval infestation while on a trip to Belize this summer. Bot fly infections are not uncommon in parts of Central and South America.
Adult bot flies are hairy and look like bees, without bristles. The larvae, which are about one-third the size of a penny, were living in a pit 2- to 3- millimeters wide. They were removed Thursday.
Here's the original article complete with pictures of the bugging devices. Neither Dallas nor the medical professionals were quite ready for all this:
"He called the nurse in to help and she about fainted. The whole thing was traumatic," Dallas said. "It was freaking me out. I actually asked them to stop so I could walk around a bit."
Midge missed the extraction - which required numbing of the infested area before the larvae were removed - but she spoke with her husband's nurse.
"When I walked into the doctor's office, she said, 'You don't want to go back there,'" Midge said. "This woman was as white as a ghost."
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard are attempting to type while dealing with a severe case of the skin crawls. It is not easy, we hope our readers appreciate all these sacrifices we make around here. We would like to point out that many bugs in todays computers happen because of 'bots. Now bot flies have been unleashed on people. Coincidence? We think not.
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Blue Crab Boulevard » Flies, Spiders, Now Bees — Wednesday, 18 July , 2007 @ 12:01 pm
By chuck, Wednesday, 18 July , 2007 @ 11:59 am
Want to see video of Bot Fly larvae being pulled out of a fellow’s back? Go here. Warning, it’s pretty disgusting.
By Greg, Wednesday, 18 July , 2007 @ 12:06 pm
Wow. Just wow. And thanks in advance for the nightmares I’ll be having tonight…
By Gaius, Wednesday, 18 July , 2007 @ 12:22 pm
No charge for those. We’re very magnanimous.