Spider-Man

Doctor finds spiders in ear of boy with earache

ALBANY, Oregon (CNN) May 7, 2007 — 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.

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.”

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This is what happens when people and spiders interact in the real world. Unfortunately, little Jesse didn’t get the sweet superhero powers he had hoped for after the recent release of Spider-Man 3.