[jonrick46]

My son pulled a wild panic on my wife and I. He told us that he planted a bean in his ear to see if it would grow out in a planat. He didn’t anticipate that the bean would expand as it went through the germination process. I turned into a pain he would not forget. Thankfully the ER doctor had a gripper appliance that grabbed that plant and pulled it out of his ear. It was very much like a bean sprout.

[Battle Axe]

AS a honeybee inspector back in the 90’s, I had a client who wanted to take his blind, elderly father out to the bee yard while I did the inspection. We left him standing by the vehicle and could suddenly hear him hollering. A bee, complete with stinger, was lodged in his ear. We could see her flailing about but could not reach her for fear she would sting him. That close to his brain and he could have been a goner.

I wanted to drown her in water but we had none. The son did have a nice bottle of vodka under the seat. So we poured his ear full of vodka and drown the bee, she semi retracted her stinger and we got her out without stinging him.

It was a close call and the old man had one clean ear.

[MayflowerMadam]

Many years ago I had a co-worker who was investigating schools for the deaf for her 5-year-old son. Then the doctor discovered the kid had put beans in his ears a couple years earlier. They’d been covered with wax. Extracted the beans and no more deaf school.