Spider nests in Swedish woman's ear for 27 days (Ooooh!!!)

[underpants]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060111/od_afp/swedenhealthanimalsoffbeat_060111122728

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - A spider that nested in the ear of a Swedish woman was discovered and removed alive after 27 days.


The black spider, "the size of a thumbnail", crept into the woman's ear while she was sleeping and went undiscovered for almost a month, Swedish tabloid Expressen reported Wednesday.

The woman, whose name was not disclosed, told the paper that she at first experienced "a slight loss of hearing" and assumed that she had a build-up of wax.

But when she heard "a scratching sound" in her ear she decided to go to the pharmacy to buy a cleanser to wash out her ear cavity.

When she did so, the spider was flushed out alive and crawled away.

[matcom]

1. .

:thumbsup:

[underpants]

3. Is that a thubnail?

YIKES!!!!

[LynneSin]

2. Hasn't the woman heard about a damn Q-TIP

:eyes:

I use em everyday!

[bleedingheart]

4. ewwwww!!! ewwwwww!!!!

[underpants]

5. I just emailed the link to my wife

CNN should report on the scream heard around the world in 5...4...3...

[bleedingheart]

6. I am going to wear earmuffs to bed tonight....

I am still creeped out by it...

[mikeytherat]

7. Americans INHALE, on average, six spiders each year while sleeping

nighty night, ya'll

mikey_the_rat

[underpants]

8. Oh man

I fmy wife ever calls me I will NOT tell her that

[kick-ass-bob]

9. That one will go to the grave with me.

Wife. must. never. find. out.
:yoiks:

[kay1864]

19. I'm calling BS on the "inhale six spiders" thing

"the average number of spiders swallowed at night per person per lifetime is probably less than one"

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mspidereat.html

[Maine-ah]

10. eeewwww

I hate spiders. When I was a kid, I woke up with a daddy long legs on my face. Nope, don't like 'em.

[AlCzervik]

11. i hate when the words "nest" and "Spider" are together, that is so creepy

[radwriter0555]

12. How do they know how long it was in there for????

This makes no sense.

[IcyPeas]

13. There was an old lady who swallowed a fly......

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die.

[Beetwasher]

14. It Was Bound To Happen Sooner or Later

n/t

[pdx_prog]

15. It's official...

I have a full blown case of the heebie jeebies....

[Sannum]

16. Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

Did you hear a scream from Chicago?

[underpants]

17. NO and my wife was unable to open the link I sent

otherwise everyone would have heard the scream coming from Richmond

[underpants]

18. NO and my wife was unable to open the link I sent

otherwise everyone would have heard the scream coming from Richmond