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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/08/spider_ears_boy/

Oregon boy in double spider ear blockage horror
Arachnophonia
By Chris Williams → More by this author
Published Tuesday 8th May 2007 13:47 GMT
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A doctor in Oregon flushed out the aching lughole of a nine-year-old boy to find two spiders had set up home inside his ear canal.

The Albany Democrat-Herald reports that one of the arachnids was still alive. Traumatised juvenile aural spider blockage victim Jesse Courtney said: "They were walking on my eardrum and I kept hearing this popping sound like Rice Krispies."
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Jesse's mother Diane told the Democrat-Herald she thought the bugs had landed in his ear when he was helping her with gardening some a week earlier. "The dirt was really flying," the paper reports.

The first, dead, spider was flushed out with little difficulty, but doctors said the live arachnid took a second dousing.

Like any sane mother, Diane Courtney revealed: "My first thought was, I’m going to go home and bomb the house."

Happily, Ms Courtney decided not to napalm the family home, and has since taken the spider corpses to show off to amazed work colleagues. ®


Worse thing I had was a pea stuck in my ear. My mom did not threaten to blow up the local supermarket.

Is there something odd in the water in Oregon?

That's weeeeeird.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/08/spider_ears_boy/




Worse thing I had was a pea stuck in my ear. My mom did not threaten to blow up the local supermarket.

Is there something odd in the water in Oregon?

To answer your question: Yes.

She was probably referring to bug bomb, although blowing up your own house would be kinda fun...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/08/spider_ears_boy/




Worse thing I had was a pea stuck in my ear. My mom did not threaten to blow up the local supermarket.

Is there something odd in the water in Oregon?

Its right below Washington which is insane. Maybe theres a connection with the fact that the two states are adjacent and the general populace's sanity. Hmmm.... *ponders*

forget firebombing the house, if i found spiders living in my ears i'd be of on a mission with a flamethrower and a madness in my eyes. evil fuckers. there was an episode of CSI i saw ages ago where a huge spider crept into this woman's ear while she was sleeping and laid eggs, freaked me out no end.

...

and now my ears are itching. great.

:(

Worse thing I had was a pea stuck in my ear. My mom did not threaten to blow up the local supermarket.
Obviously not, what she probably did do was petition the government to have nuclear weapons used against the farm where the pea was grown.
How do you get a pea stuck in your ear anyway?

Its right below Washington which is insane. Maybe theres a connection with the fact that the two states are adjacent and the general populace's sanity. Hmmm.... *ponders*

Hey! Washington's not insane...it's the rest of the y'all that's bonkers! :p

Obviously not, what she probably did do was petition the government to have nuclear weapons used against the farm where the pea was grown.
How do you get a pea stuck in your ear anyway?

It was when I was a kid. I think it was either a birthday or Christmas or something.

On of the toys was a factory kind of thing with trucks and a silo. So we (I) put peas in the silo to download into a truck. I guess I must have just put one in my ear...as you do when you're like 5 LOL

Well damn thing actually got stuck and therefore had to go to the docs to get it syringed.

I guess I must have just put one in my ear...
0.o

. . .

I guess this is just one of those questions where the obvious answer more suprising than some bizarre, one-in-a-million chance involving a hand built catapult and a pet octopus.

and now my ears are itching. great.

:(

QFT. Heck, as I think of it, my whole head begins to itch. And my back.

Bet she wishes she lived in Texas now.

Not because their are no spiders in Texas, but she'd have a wider selection of things to blow the spiders to hell with.

0.o

. . .

I guess this is just one of those questions where the obvious answer more suprising than some bizarre, one-in-a-million chance involving a hand built catapult and a pet octopus.

Actually its all coming back to me! I was wargaming Trajan's Dacian invasion and had a mishap with a onager!

Perhaps she meant that she was going to fumigate the house. As in a 'bug bomb':rolleyes:

Perhaps she meant that she was going to fumigate the house. As in a 'bug bomb':rolleyes:

...She was probably referring to bug bomb...

See, the rest of you are insane! :p

Great, now I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight.

See, the rest of you are insane! :p

err... then explain the last line of the quoted article...

Happily, Ms Courtney decided not to napalm the family home

err... then explain the last line of the quoted article...

Fortunately for her if she changes her mind, the United States is not part of whatever treaty bans napalm. We figure we don't need it, since we don't use napalm. We use Mark 33 Firebombs (Or some name like that.)

Which are totally different.

We swear.

Is there something odd in the water in Oregon?
Of course there is. You can't get out clean being between California and Washington. Though I would assume bug bomb here...

ZOMG WE MUST ELIMINATE THE SPIDER MENACE!!!!!!

We must eliminate them now before they evolve into this


http://www.diarioadn.com/media/0000025500/0000025988.jpg

err... then explain the last line of the quoted article...

Poetic license? Hopefully?

Poetic license? Hopefully?

That was how I was viewing the entire thread....LOL!

http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/spider.gif Hehehe. That's really fragged up!

*waits for WYTYG to see the thread and go nuts by the thought of spiders living in her ear*

lol That's a new one...

Aww, that's just so cute. Lil' spiders makin' themselves at home right inside his head.

*goes all giddy*

To answer your question: Yes.

She was probably referring to bug bomb, although blowing up your own house would be kinda fun...

I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit...it's the only way to be sure...