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Freelance · May 7, 2007, 07:32 PM

"Rice Krispies" noise in boy's ear turns out to be nesting spiders

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Sun May 6, 7:05 PM

ALBANY, Oregon (AP) - These guys were not exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop.
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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.

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.

Okay, ew. I never knew stuff like that happened in real life. Has anything icky ever happened to you?

How ya doing, buddy?

Freelance · May 7, 2007, 08:05 PM

I've heard lots of icky stories over the years, like the woman who swallowed tons of frog eggs while drinking at the pond, and her stomach got really bloated when they hatched, and the story about cockroaches who was living in someone's gums, but they were all eventually turned out to be urban myths.

This story, though, is like a real-life urban myth. Ugh. Luckily nothing this bad has ever happened to me.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Freelance · May 9, 2007, 05:30 PM

Once when I was a young kid, I had a wasp or related insect fly into my mouth while I was yawning (or something) and land on my tongue. If I was another kid, I'd be screaming right there, but nope. I knew that panicking will only scare it into stinging me.

I left my mouth open and patiently waited for it to fly away. It took quite a while, though, before it left. Luckily it did, for my jaws were getting pretty sore by that time.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.