What began as a faint popping noise in a nine-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 of Oregon in the US 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 that, when he examined the boy, it looked as if he had something in his ear.
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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Helen Mirren turns down Dinner with the Queen!
"It is unheard of for her majesty to extend a personal invitation to dinner to someone who has portrayed her in a film," it quoted a senior palace official as saying.
"We did not expect to be told that the date is unacceptable."
Mirren told the paper that she was invited to dinner at the palace on May 1 but could not attend because she was filming and could not change her schedule.
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Subway worker sacked for sharing complimentary Coke-NZ
Managers had found video footage that appeared to show Lang giving some of her cup of Coke to a friend.
Bill Clark from the AWU said Jackie admitted sharing her drink with a friend, who had come into the workplace upset.
"They are allowed endless amounts of soft drink if they work there. Her friend came in all upset and distressed, so Jackie took a break, poured a drink and sat down with her," he said.
According to reports the video footage shows Lang giving some of her drink to a friend before refilling it and leaving it on the table where her friend sat.
She has been charged with stealing the drinks, valued at $4, and will appear in court later this month.
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