More proof that spiders are dangerous!

[ForeverAutumn]

Like I needed more proof...

"Rice Krispies" noise in boy's ear turns out to be nesting spiders
Sun May 6, 7:05 PM

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

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.

[GMichael]

Spiders are our friends. If yours have all died I can send you more.

[ForeverAutumn]

Spiders are our friends. If yours have all died I can send you more.

Yeah, mine are all dead. BECAUSE I KILLED THEM!!!

[GMichael]

Yeah, mine are all dead. BECAUSE I KILLED THEM!!!

GASP!
Murderer!

[basite]

why does it not suprise me that FA made this thread

but there are too much of them, good news is that they feed themselves with those other annoying creatures: flies

update: just to keep you busy for a while counting dead spiders: each - normal - family house, contains about 1000 to 2000 spiders, dead ones are immediately replaced by new spiders

happy hunting

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

[ForeverAutumn]

update: just to keep you busy for a while counting dead spiders: each - normal - family house, contains about 1000 to 2000 spiders, dead ones are immediately replaced by new spiders

happy hunting

Great. Now I can't go home.

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

Spinning? Like webs? Get it? hehehehe, you didn't even make the connection did you?

[basite]

Spinning? Like webs? Get it? hehehehe, you didn't even make the connection did you?

now you say it

maybe one should also know that during their lifetime, they eat about 3 spiders (tiny ones of cours) while asleep...

but please, don't let this hold you back from sleeping...

[GMichael]

now you say it

maybe one should also know that during their lifetime, they eat about 3 spiders (tiny ones of cours) while asleep...

but please, don't let this hold you back from sleeping...

I thought the number was 300.

That's nothin' compared to what they allow in our foods. Don't get me started.

[basite]

indeed, please, don't start about fastfood stories...

[ForeverAutumn]

I'm pretty sure one bit me while I was sleeping last fall. I woke up in the middle of the night and my arm felt like it was on fire. I had to get out of bed and soak it in cold water. In the morning there was a big red welt on my wrist with a very distinct bite or sting mark in the centre. The welt lasted about three weeks.

As for eating them while I sleep, I hope my stomach acid hurts them as it burns through them.

[GMichael]

indeed, please, don't start about fastfood stories...

Believe it or not, you'll get less "foreign objects" at a FF place than a regular restaurant. The Heath Services watch them like a hawk. But I was talking about all food. Bread, milk, chocolate etc from super markets.

[Rich-n-Texas]

Yeah, mine are all dead. BECAUSE I KILLED THEM!!!

I don't think PITA would appreciate that!!!

Yeah, that story was all over the news this week. They showed a picture of the dead one in a jar of water. Did we REALLY need to see that?

The kid's lucky it wasn't a tic in his ear...

[Rich-n-Texas]

I'm pretty sure one bit me while I was sleeping last fall. I woke up in the middle of the night and my arm felt like it was on fire. I had to get out of bed and soak it in cold water. In the morning there was a big red welt on my wrist with a very distinct bite or sting mark in the centre. The welt lasted about three weeks.

As for eating them while I sleep, I hope my stomach acid hurts them as it burns through them.

Toads eat spiders.

[Resident Loser]

...are the good ones, well except for black widows and the brown recluse...they eat all the others...

You get them outdoorsy spiders with a legspan of a silver dollar or better and a thorax the size of a kidney bean, squattin' on their webs and shine a flashlight on 'em and the eyes glow and you spook 'em by pokin' on part of the web and they scramble on over...way cool...then the next morning the web is all dewey and glistening in the sun...You wanna' get freaky about bugs, take a look at rhinocerous beetles and ones from the rain forests...dem suckers is big...moths the size of small birds...eechhh...

And I don't know about that spider kid...you'd think he might have felt something when they were checkin' into Chateau le Domo...I mean doesn't he ever bathe or at least take up the odd dampened wash-cloth now and again...heck, the ear canal isn't all that deep...

jimHJJ(...eatin' ear-wax...yummmie...double eechhh...)

[ForeverAutumn]

Toads eat spiders.

Yeah, my Toad will come kill them for me if I scream loud enough. But he just cleans up the carcasses with a tissue. He doesn't eat them (I know this because I've watched).

[ForeverAutumn]

And I don't know about that spider kid...you'd think he might have felt something when they were checkin' into Chateau le Domo...I mean doesn't he ever bathe or at least take up the odd dampened wash-cloth now and again...heck, the ear canal isn't all that deep...

jimHJJ(...eatin' ear-wax...yummmie...double eechhh...)

I don't know Jim, spiders are very sneaky. You ever notice how they can just sneak into a room and drop down from the ceiling right on top of you and you never even hear them coming.

[GMichael]

I don't know Jim, spiders are very sneaky. You ever notice how they can just sneak into a room and drop down from the ceiling right on top of you and you never even hear them coming.

There's one now.

LOOK OUT!

[Resident Loser]

I don't know Jim, spiders are very sneaky. You ever notice how they can just sneak into a room and drop down from the ceiling right on top of you and you never even hear them coming.

...many audiophiles have a highly developed sense of hearing...if you listen very hard, you might be able to hear the heavy breathing just before they do...

jimHJJ(...and Ziggy played guitar...)

[markw]

I almost wrecked a car once when one dangled down from the top of the windshield about 3" in front of my face!

Nothing ever happened to cause this irrational feeling. I guess it's just something thats been ingrained in my (and other's ) lizard brain from the begining of time.

In spite of all logic, as far as I'm concerned, the only good spider is a dead one and that ain't gonna change.

[basite]

the only good spider is the one outside, like now, on the outside of my window, it gets food (flies trying to enter my room and annoy me there) and I have less flies in my room

but from of the moment the spider comes in my room, it will no longer be part of the leaving creatures...

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

[markw]

the only good spider is the one outside, like now, on the outside of my window, it gets food (flies trying to enter my room and annoy me there) and I have less flies in my room

but from of the moment the spider comes in my room, it will no longer be part of the leaving creatures...

excellent compromise.