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Subject: Urban Myth..But how true are they?????
As with probably almost everyone, I tend to take these kind of stories witha pinch of salt....or should we???
There either the by product of an imaginative mind, or is there some grain of truth behind them?
I'm sure all of you have your own versions of this, or perhaps I'm about to start off another long thread by asking you to relate your own!!
GR
1)In March 1997, Brian Crenshaw, a chemical engineer from West London, returned to the UK after spending the previous six months overseeing work at a petrochemicals plant in Nigeria. During his first week back, his wife complained that he seemed to have difficulty listening properly. Brian suggested that his ears had not fully recovered from
the air pressure changes experienced during his flight. Over the next two weeks, Brian's condition worsened as he started to feel tickling sensations deep in his ears. Thinking the trouble was caused by loosened ear wax, he attempted to clean his ears with a ballpoint pen. When he pressed it into his right ear, he heard a cracking sound and saw the pen covered in a yellow goo.
Next day, he went to his local GP claiming had punctured his ear drum.The GP reached into Brian's right ear with a pair of tweezers and pulled out what appeared to be an insect antenna. During the examination Brian was horrified to learn that he had a total of 5 African cockroaches living in his head. Four were alive and one was dead, presumably crushed by Brian s pen attack.
An investigation revealed that when Brian was in Nigeria, a female African cockroach must have laid numerous eggs in the toiletries bagwhere he kept his cotton buds. When he was cleaning his ears, he was also transferring the cockroach eggs to his inner ear where they started to hatch.
Subject: Re: Urban Myth..But how true are they?????
I don't know if it is true...but I just have to say eeewwww!
Subject: Re: Urban Myth..But how true are they?????
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In March 1997, Brian Crenshaw, a chemical engineer from West London, returned to the UK after spending the previous six months overseeing work at a petrochemicals plant in Nigeria. During his first week back, his wife complained that he seemed to have difficulty listening properly. Brian suggested that his ears had not fully recovered from
the air pressure changes experienced during his flight. Over the next two weeks, Brian's condition worsened as he started to feel tickling sensations deep in his ears. Thinking the trouble was caused by loosened ear wax, he attempted to clean his ears with a ballpoint pen. When he pressed it into his right ear, he heard a cracking sound and saw the pen covered in a yellow goo.
Next day, he went to his local GP claiming had punctured his ear drum.The GP reached into Brian's right ear with a pair of tweezers and pulled out what appeared to be an insect antenna. During the examination Brian was horrified to learn that he had a total of 5 African cockroaches living in his head. Four were alive and one was dead, presumably crushed by Brian s pen attack.
An investigation revealed that when Brian was in Nigeria, a female African cockroach must have laid numerous eggs in the toiletries bagwhere he kept his cotton buds. When he was cleaning his ears, he was also transferring the cockroach eggs to his inner ear where they started to hatch.
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Heh heh. You know, they used to call these 'old wives' tales'. Like how if you didn't wash behind your ears, potatoes would grow there. Only now they're more elaborate. Everyone knows you shouldn't stick things in your ears, not even cotton buds, as it tends to push any blockage further into the ear rather than removing it. So why not illustrate the point with an imaginative and disgusting story? Of course, if you really did have cockroaches inside your head, you'd know about it before you accidentally squashed one with a pen. There would be a tremendous amount of pain as you felt them borrowing into the flesh to get to the warmth underneath, and you'd be dead quite quickly after that.
Subject: Re: Urban Myth..But how true are they?????
This is similar to the story where the girl dies when she "pleasures herself" with an egg-laying lobster and larvae swim out of her a couple days later...or the one where a girl has what appears to be a pimple but when she tries to pop it spider babies come out.
Probably unlikely to happen, but these stories are probably why I hate insects and arachnids so much.
Subject: Re: Urban Myth..But how true are they?????
For Urban Legend Info check out- http://www.urbanlegends.com/
Some of the things I've heard crack me up, I ask myself, does it make any sence? If not I conlude that it isn't true.