What’s in the ear! GG2.NET NEWS [12/01/2006] Spider finds the home! A SPIDER that nested in the ear of a Swedish woman was discovered and removed alive after 27 days. The black spider, "the size of a thumbnail", crept into the woman`s ear while she was sleeping and went undiscovered for almost a month, Swedish tabloid reported on Wednesday. The woman, whose name was not disclosed, told the paper that she at first experienced "a slight loss of hearing" and assumed that she had a build-up of wax. But when she heard "a scratching sound" in her ear she decided to go to the pharmacy to buy a cleanser to wash out her ear cavity. When she did so, the spider was flushed out alive and crawled away. The woman recalled having seen a spider on her bed in November, 27 days earlier. http://www.gg2.net/viewnews.asp?nid=214&tid=quirky_stuff&catid=Quirky Stuff Sweet Dreams!
A friend of mine (this happened about 30 years ago) had a small Houston roach (you know the type) crawl into one of his ears while he was asleep. When he woke up in the morning, one of his ears itched, so he casually scratches it. He instantly feels both incredible pain, and something moving in his ear. He trys to grab whatever it is and pull it out, and the thing crawls further in, and he falls to the floor in agony. My friend calls a friend (wonder who??) to take him to the emergency room. The ER doctor trys to pull the thing out with forceps, and my buddy screams. Finally, the doc puts an anestesia into his ear to knock the damn thing out, and pulls out this cockroach. (yuck!!!) The friend tells the doc to put it in a jar of something to preserve it, and I think he still has it to this day. OUCH!!!
Its funny because I actually hated the Brian Fellows skits but this thread made me instantly think of it.
i was watching the discovery channel and came upon a show i believe is called "Going Tribal". anyhow, the premise of the show consists of the host immersing himself into different tribal cultures. he'd participate in all initiations necessary to be considered a member. he would eat what they eat, do what they do. well, one particular aspect of day to day activiites of the tribe was cleaning your earwax. to do this, they'd stick a live maggot to eat away the wax. ugh, i can't imagine what that would feel like. just watching the host squirm gave me shivers. going off a tangent now. another interesting tidbit of the tribe consisted of the grown men having their penises inverted. how you may ask? they'd take hold the foreskin with their middle finger and thumb and push the penis into your pelvis with their index finger. the host almost fainted and that was one thing he could not do. it almost made me faint too.
Yikes... Imagine getting bitten on your eardrum by a spider. I know a few people who had bugs in their ears. I worked with a guy who had a roach crawl in his ear. He had to go to the ER to get it out. I'm sure the details were similar to Deckard's friend. Another buddy was on a trip to Mexico for his 18th birthday. They were driving down a street and he put his head out the window to yell at someone, and some kind of flying bug flew into his ear. He said it drove him nuts buzzing until they went into a bar and poured a shot of tequila in his ear, which either washed it out or drowned it. The worst had to be what happened to my ex-girlfriend. When she was eight, she had a junebug crawl into her ear at night when she was asleep. She said it felt like it was trying to dig deeper and it hurt worse than anything imaginable. They had to break it up to get it out. She was terrified of junebugs when I was dating her. Of course, I would sneak them into wherever we were and put them on her just to watch see her freak out and run away.
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