News, Doctor finds spiders in ear of boy with earache. (sleeping, broken)

[JD59]

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.(Watch how an earache led to the creepy discovery )

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.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/07/spiderboy.ap/index.html (broken link)

[JasmineRose]

OMG that gives me the creeps!

[PinkString]

I wonder was the kid sleeping on the floor? Yikes! Creepy is right.

[iamnotwhoyouthinkiam]

i hope those spiders went str8 to hell! nasty critters

[phonelady61]

I had a friend one time who had a roach in her ear and she lived in a really nice house too . But she did end up suing the landlord because he refused to get an exterminator in the house to spray so she called one and this woman was very clean . She lived in Louisianna and was told they are very common in Louisianna and also Florida . I know they are common in Florida . I guess anything can crawl in your ear nowadays . Im glad the dr found out what it was and I hope that mother went home and had her house sprayed .

[tickyul]

Lucky it wasn't earwigs, they have very strong, sharp claws and can dig their way to your delicious brains.