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| Spiders, Spiders Everywhere |
| 2007-05-08 |
| A nine-year-old boy heard some strange popping and scratching sounds in his ear. It started bugging him, so Jesse Courtney's mother took him to the doctor. A nurse there thought his ear was jammed with wax, so she flushed it out. And floating out with the ear wash was a spider. And that wasn't the end of it. Another small spider came crawling out moments later. Jesse's mother, Diane Courtney, saw the spiders come out and and says she tried not to act too alarmed, because she didn't want to frighter her son. She might not have needed to worry about that. Jesse is, after all, a nine-year-old boy; a prime age for messing around with spiders, snakes and all sorts of crawly creatures. In his opinion, "It's cool to have two spiders in your ear." Jesse still has them, both now dead, preserved in alcohol. He shows them to his friends, who call him "Spider Boy" and "Spider Man Junior". Jesse is enjoying the celebrity of it all, including the calls from media outlets around the world, and invitations to appear - with his spiders - on national television talk shows. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 I worry about you, Moose... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-05-08 22:32 |
| #1 The tragedy of peehole spiders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-W5rBZr0Bc |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-05-08 20:52 |