cappie Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 What began as a faint popping noise in a nine-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 of Oregon in the US 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 that, when he examined the boy, it looked as if he had something in his ear. 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. AP [url="http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/walking-on-my-eardrums/2007/05/07/1178390197747.html"]http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/w...8390197747.html[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T-Bone Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Yet another reason to fear and hate those eight legged freaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight of the Holy Rosary Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 I'll be sleeping with earmuffs tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T-Bone Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 (edited) It's only the highly intelligent and crafty Oregon Ear Spider ([i]Spiderus Oregonus [/i]) that you have to worry about. Edited May 11, 2007 by T-Bone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldbug16 Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 [img]http://www.unitedspongebob.com/pictures/patrick/scream.jpg[/img] Man, that is creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvu_srfan Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 eww! That's gross. I mean I normally don't mind spiders, but having them inside you ear?...ahh. And then in the article the boy looked all happy and smiley like he enjoyed it. lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T-Bone Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Well, he got to be on TV and everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luthien Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Spiders are creepy. The end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 So he's from Oregon. As in the Pacific Northwest. Like where I live. Yeah, that's consoling. Aren't stories like this supposed to take place somewhere tropical, and far, far away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggyie Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 One of my old roommates from college is studying to become an audiologist. Our university was in Appalachia, and there were a lot of kids with... things living in their ears who would come to the school since it was a teaching institution and the medical care was pretty much free. The one that I remember best was the maggots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 ew... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ora et Labora Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 i watched that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lounge Daddy Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 egh! yikes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlterDominicus Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Minnesota was on a Five Day Spider warning. The only Spider I like is Charlotte, from Charlotte's Web. Otherwise; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jckinsman Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 [quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1271745' date='May 12 2007, 05:08 AM']So he's from Oregon. As in the Pacific Northwest. Like where I live. Yeah, that's consoling. Aren't stories like this supposed to take place somewhere tropical, and far, far away?[/quote] I live in seattle, spiders don't like ears around here.....they like legs, arms and backs!!!!! The hobo spider,ya-hooo! One bite says it all! JC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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