Spider bites man on plane; his leg 'bursts open'

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/weird/article/Spider-bites-man-on-plane-his-leg-bursts-open-6540557.php

A British attorney is suing Qatar Airways after a spider bite he received on a flight in South Africa nearly cost him his leg.

The flesh-eating venom from a brown recluse spider whose bite caused a "small, sharp pain" turned barrister John Hogg's leg black....

Doctors were able to save the limb, but Hogg had to undergo three operations and a skin graft. An avid kickboxer and soccer player, he fears he may never play his sports again.

"It was a right mess. They told me if I had been any later I would have lost my leg or even died. It was terrifying," the 40-year-old lawyer said.

I am so sick of these motherf*cking spiders on this motherf*cking plane!

[Major Nikon]

1. I'm having a hard time figuring out how the airlines would be liable for this

Spiders can crawl into or onto anyone's luggage. Seems more like a frivolous lawsuit intended to extort money from the airline on the threat of bad press and the airline called them on it.

[NewJeffCT]

2. I think you're right

It could very well have crawled into his own carry on bag, too.

[Special Prosciuto]

3. That spider must have been a frequent flyer.

I thought the Brown Recluse was a central southern US native.

http://www.orkin.com/other/spiders/brown-recluse-spiders/where-do-they-live/

[DFW]

4. There are other questions as well

Did the affected passenger find that he was suddenly able to climb up buildings vertically, had an increase in his strength, and have a tingling sense of warning when unseen danger was approaching? Was the spider tested for radioactivity?

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[nolabear]

5. ...

😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

[sakabatou]

6. Wait, did Stan say hi to us?

[DFW]

7. Indeed he did!

It was a few years ago, actually. I was in his office, and asked him to make that up. I scanned it, and then sent it on to Skinner.

[sakabatou]

9. That's awesome!

[DFW]

10. He made me pay for lunch

I told him he wasn't getting away for free, thus the little card. He keeps a stack of them in a drawer in his desk. It seems I wasn't the first to ask him to do this........

[sakabatou]

11. It was a good deal at the end.

[DFW]

12. Lunch with Stan is always a good deal.

I haven't been to lunch with him for a while now, but should see him when I'm out in SoCal next summer. My immediate superior saw him and had lunch with him just a few months ago when they were both in Boston. I told him to stop pulling rank on me.

[argyl]

13. About '62 or '63 I was a kid living in Temple, Texas. I was also a huge Marvel fan.

I wrote them concerning a question I had " Why can Dr. Doom's facial expressions change when he's wearing a metal mask"?

And I actually got a reply on a three penney postcard. It read " Dr. Doom's facial expressions can change because his mask is made of a special type of rolled steel." And it was signed by Stan Lee himself.
The handwriting was just like the signature , Stan Lee himself. His sig was as recognizable as John Hancock's. Still is,for that matter.

His superhero lineup was just starting to catch on and I now think back upon the idea that at one time the man behind a publishing and motion picture juggernaut took the time to drop a line to a kid in Central Texas with a simple question.

Unfortunately, the card was lost many years ago.

[DFW]

14. Stan really has a heart of gold.

A real Mensch, as he and his Jewish Brooklyn compatriots would put it.

I don't want to get your hopes up, but if you wrote him and told him exactly what you just posted, he might just send you one of those Spidey cards dedicated to you as a consolation prize.

[argyl]

15. I might just do that. Thanks.

[DFW]

16. If you need his snail mail address, let me know.

I'll PM you with it.

[argyl]

17. That would be much appreciated.

[DFW]

18. Check your PM any time 5 minutes after this appears n/t

[MowCowWhoHow III]

8. Ack! Deep Vein Arachnophobia