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♥ · May 7, 2007, 05:59 AM

Spiders were living in this kid's ear.

Never thought I'd read about this, ever. Don't even know how it's possible, but I guess it is.

design219 · May 7, 2007, 06:50 AM

Oh geez, what a way to start the week.

I'm going to clean my ears now.

Wiskedjak · May 7, 2007, 07:14 AM

The size of a pencil eraser? That's rather large to have in one's ear (the opening to the ear canal is about that big) I was expecting to hear they were tiny ...

design219 · May 7, 2007, 08:05 AM

The size of a pencil eraser. That has to be with the legs extended. God, I hope so.

andi*pandi · May 7, 2007, 08:13 AM

oh ewww.

Dakarʒ · May 7, 2007, 08:44 AM

Where's a pic of a Regulan Bloodworm when you need one?

Probably in a basement somewhere, on the desk of some overweight trekkie

design219 · May 7, 2007, 08:46 AM

Creepy Twilight Zone I remember as a kid involved an ear wic that traveled though a guys brain and he survived only to find out it had laid eggs. Gave me nightmares.

zro · May 7, 2007, 09:33 AM

YouTube - WORM LIKE CREATURE REMOVED FROM EYE

It's the sound track that puts this one over the top.

osiris · May 7, 2007, 09:40 AM

I once found an entire Bolivian family living in my left ear canal.

Jawbone54 · May 7, 2007, 10:16 AM

At least he's happy about it.

highstakes · May 7, 2007, 10:19 AM

^

design219 · May 7, 2007, 10:19 AM

Strange kid.

Jawbone, your new sig scares me too.

analogue SPRINKLES · May 7, 2007, 10:34 AM

Yuck afterwards I would need counseling for years to get over that.

James L · May 7, 2007, 10:46 AM

Over the last few years at work I have seen a cockroach stuck in someone's ear twice.

finboy · May 7, 2007, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by osiris

I once found an entire Bolivian family living in my left ear canal.

[Yorkshireman]That's NOTHING! When we were kids we were LUCKY to have spiders living in our ears! Lucky!
[/Yorkshireman]

Dakarʒ · May 7, 2007, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by James L

Over the last few years at work I have seen a cockroach stuck in someone's ear twice.

James L · May 7, 2007, 10:50 AM

And if you REALLY want to be grossed out:

Candirú - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

analogue SPRINKLES · May 7, 2007, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by James L

And if you REALLY want to be grossed out:

Candirú - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I just watched a video on that thing last night.

Laminar · May 7, 2007, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

I just watched a video on that thing last night.

In HD?

olePigeon · May 7, 2007, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by James L

And if you REALLY want to be grossed out:

Candirú - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here's another great one: the Bot Fly.

analogue SPRINKLES · May 7, 2007, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

In HD?

Not quite:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=66f_1178409857

analogue SPRINKLES · May 7, 2007, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

Here's another great one: the Bot Fly.

7 years ago my co-worker told me he saw a show about a lady who thought she was getting bad zits on her face and was popping them. Later she found out they were actually maggots under her skin by the botfly.

andi*pandi · May 7, 2007, 12:55 PM

more reasons to stay home:

Jawbone54 · May 7, 2007, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by James L

And if you REALLY want to be grossed out:

Candirú - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The part at about 1:15 in that video is hilarious.

I read about the candirú a few weeks ago when they talked about how worried they were that the guy that swam down the Amazon was going to become a candirú victim.

*wriggles in imagined pain*

[EDIT] This is the one I meant to reply to...

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

Not quite:

LiveLeak.com - Attacked by a Candiru - The "Willie" Fish

olePigeon · May 7, 2007, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

7 years ago my co-worker told me he saw a show about a lady who thought she was getting bad zits on her face and was popping them. Later she found out they were actually maggots under her skin by the botfly.

I saw that show, it's aired on History Channel or Discovery every now and then. It was some girl and her dad that were flying in Brazil (I think) and their single prop died on them. They managed to jump out of the plane with emergency chutes, but her dad got stuck up way high in a tree and she couldn't get him down, so she left to get help.

She started to get boils on her arms, legs, and face. She was popping them only to find maggots in the boils. She'd pick them out on a daily basis. *shudder*

Her dad died, but she made it to a small villiage where the natives helped her to a town where they got to a hospital.

design219 · May 7, 2007, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

some girl and her dad that were flying in Brazil (I think) and their single prop died on them. They managed to jump out of the plane with emergency chutes, but her dad got stuck up way high in a tree and she couldn't get him down, so she left to get help.

She started to get boils on her arms, legs, and face. She was popping them only to find maggots in the boils. She'd pick them out on a daily basis. *shudder*

Her dad died, but she made it to a small villiage where the natives helped her to a town where they got to a hospital.

If you had to pick one moral from that story, which would it be?

olePigeon · May 7, 2007, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

more reasons to stay home:

A subscription for $10 to view a New England Jounal of Medicine article? I'm shivering in fear.

BlueSky · May 7, 2007, 01:29 PM

andi*pandi · May 7, 2007, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

A subscription for $10 to view a New England Jounal of Medicine article? I'm shivering in fear.

oh, oops, I'm logged in. thought it was an old (free) article.

here, have the ugly pic that was there:

Figure 1. Common Dermatologic Lesions in Travelers Returning from Developing Countries.

Panel A shows a petechial rash around the ankles of a patient with dengue. Panel B shows linear and grouped papular lesions due to bedbug bites. Panel C shows seabather's eruption in the area around the breast in a woman who vacationed in the Caribbean; the distribution of the eruption corresponds with the area that was covered by a bathing suit. Panel D shows lesions of swimmer's itch, a type of cercarial dermatitis due to penetration of exposed skin by cercariae in fresh water; similar lesions may be seen in clam digger's itch, a cercarial dermatitis associated with coastal water. In Panel E, furuncular myiasis caused by Dermatobia hominis is manifested as a lesion on the arm of a traveler recently returned from the rain forest of Central America; the fly larva is protruding through a breathing pore. In Panel F, tungiasis, caused by Tunga penetrans, appears as a tender nodule on the sole of the foot of a traveler who has returned from West Africa. Panel G shows a transient Calabar swelling due to Loa loa infection around the wrist of a traveler who has returned from Central Africa. Panel H shows the typical shallow, painful, purulent ulcers of ecthyma (pyoderma) caused by group A streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus. Panel I shows a cutaneous lesion in a traveler with leishmaniasis after returning from Peru. Panel J shows an eschar on the leg of a man with African tick typhus (due to Rickettsia africae) after a safari in southern Africa. In Panel K, cutaneous larva migrans is evident on the foot of a person who had recently visited the Caribbean. Panel L shows lesions of phytophotodermatitis on the leg of a traveler after contact with lime juice.

Dakarʒ · May 7, 2007, 01:32 PM

Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers

His Dudeness · May 7, 2007, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

7 years ago my co-worker told me he saw a show about a lady who thought she was getting bad zits on her face and was popping them. Later she found out they were actually maggots under her skin by the botfly.

Excuse me. I'm gonna... step in to the bathroom and vomit.

Jawbone54 · May 7, 2007, 01:44 PM

This thread is stimulating my gag reflex.

Dakarʒ · May 7, 2007, 01:46 PM

Gotta give props to andi though...

How often does a chick gross out a group guys? And even then, how often is that chick not grossly overweight?

olePigeon · May 7, 2007, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

oh, oops, I'm logged in. thought it was an old (free) article.

here, have the ugly pic that was there:

Panel K looks a tad worse than the bot fly, because the larvae leaves that trail as it crawls under the skin.

design219 · May 7, 2007, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

the larvae leaves that trail as it crawls under the skin.

The next great thing in body modification.

zro · May 7, 2007, 02:57 PM

Casu marzu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not a parasite, but sounds real damn gross if you ask me.

analogue SPRINKLES · May 7, 2007, 03:14 PM

Not a parasite but I read about how somewhere in the east they mummify people with honey and eat them a hundred years later. I could never figure out if it was true or not.