Posted on 04/26/2005 8:01:14 PM PDT by new cruelty
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch.
Wednesday's Nation newspaper said Anan Temtan, who lives in the tsunami-hit southern resort island of Phuket, had used cotton buds to relieve the itching, but had scratched so hard his eardrums ruptured and started bleeding.
"We believe flies might have gone inside his ears to lay eggs, which hatched into larvae and caused the itching," said Somsak Nonthasri, the doctor who treated him.
Somsak, who used tweezers and a small suction device to remove the maggots, said Anan would be kept in for observation for a while to make sure no more eggs hatched.
Jeez...I don't even want to think about something like this. This is straight out of B-horror movie.
I hate these stories
Can you hear me now? Great!
Pictures please.
Don't they have Q-Tips in Thailand?
He must be one of those dope smokin', maggot infested, FM types I've heard so much about.
Yeah, now if he fries `em, he has dinner!
Was he near the impeached President? Bill Clinton..
Well, apparently he "used cotton buds to relieve the itching, but had scratched so hard his eardrums ruptured and started bleeding".
Ah, you Dittohead you ;=)
Gee Doc...what's the buzz?
Ewwwwww!!!
Jeepers, that guy (or gal) even looks like the Fly!
Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.
Author: Cartman, South Park
The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.
Author: Robert Pirsig
A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
Author: Ronald Reagan.
Okay! That's gross!
You are killing me tonight....
Can you hear me now....
BWAAAAAHHAAAHHAAAAA!!
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