Lessons In Reality The Hard Way

[Anubis]

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Three young brothers have been hospitalised after they let a venomous black widow spider bite them, believing it would give them superpowers like Spider-Man.

 

The boys, aged eight, 10 and 12, came across the spider while watching over their sheep in the village of Chayanta, Boliviaa. 

 

Their mother was out with them but was off collecting wood when they spotted the spider and came up with the idea of letting it bite them, in the hope that it would give them super powers like Peter Parker in Marvel's Spider-Man comics.

 

According to local media, the boys poked the spider with a stick to provoke it before it bit them. 
 

However, they quickly began to suffer severe symptoms from the bites, including muscle pain, stomach cramps, spasms and an increased heart rate. 

 

Their mother returned and found the trio crying and rushed them to the Chayantahealth centre where they were given medicine, but their condition failed to improve. 

 

They were eventually taken to a nearby hospital before being transferred to a specialist children's hospital in the capital.

 

The Head of Epidemiology of the Health Ministry, Virgilio Pietro said the boys were suffering from muscle pains, sweating, fever, and generalised trembling.

 

Fortunately, the boys were given a serum for the bites and their condition improved over the following days, before they were released five days later.

 

Pietro mentioned the unusual case during a press conference where he warned parents 'for children everything is real, films are real, dreams could be real, and they (children) are the hope of our life'. 

 

Black widows are usually not aggressive but will attack humans if they feel threatened. Their bites are not usually fatal in humans. 

 

Earlier this year, a fella from Dudley in the West Midlands, saw his fingers swell up to the size of sausages after a false widow spider bit him. 

Andy Mason, who works in a pet shop, was moving some stock around when he was bit. Initially he thought it was a splinter, but his finger quickly ballooned up and later 'popped'. Grim. 

 

Andy had to take a trip to A&E where medics told him he'd been bitten, and - because false widow bites cause necrosis of the flesh - he had to spend two days with his arm held upright to disperse the infection, before having an operation to remove the necrotic tissue.

 

 

[Guest]

Well, at the very least it got them on the web.

[VladimirIlyich]

18 minutes ago, S.i.t.M aka The Boring One™ said:

Well, at the very least it got them on the web.

No flies on you.

[Bjornebye]

I won't be shedding any tears for them 

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

No flies on you.

Fangs alot.

[Elite]

Coyote Peterson has got a lot to answer for.

[sir roger]

Decent idea for a wider thread this.

 

As a kid I once fell into the trap of believing the oft-repeated mantra that bullies were all cowards at heart, and ended up like a purple panda.

[VladimirIlyich]

3 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Decent idea for a wider thread this.

 

As a kid I once fell into the trap of believing the oft-repeated mantra that bullies were all cowards at heart, and ended up like a purple panda.

Funny now but not so much at the time.

[sir roger]

Indeed , quite a laxative to boast that everybody was not having their shit anymore and turn to find the support had taken on board the Monty Python idea of retreat.

[deiseach]

Many moon ago the Audit Commission came in to run the rule over our company, and I was picked at random as part of a workshop where we offered our opinion on what the company did well and what we did badly. We were assured from the highest authority in the company that we were to be candid, so I was.

 

I have not been candid at work since.

 

The killing part is that we had a departmental seminar several months later and one of the managers who I found out had wanted to fire me was bragging about how the Audit Commission made a point of praising our staff for being willing to admit to flaws, that too many companies pretend everything is hunky-dory. I managed to suppress a guffaw - but only just.

[sir roger]

Aye , I found in work that two of the biggest lies were ' we welcome constructive criticism ' and ' my door is always open '.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Remember as a kid me and a mate kicking fuck out of a wasps nest in a tree stump in warbreck park. Obviously the fuckers came out and stung fuck out of us and we ran home crying our eyes out. Lesson learned about not being a fucking idiot. 

[El Rojo]

Grasping an electric fence as a kid, because there's no way they actually turn those things on.

 

Felt like a sledgehammer falling on my head.

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

Grasping an electric fence as a kid, because there's no way they actually turn those things on.

 

Felt like a sledgehammer falling on my head.

 

To be fair you had more pressing concerns at the time 

 

 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

We had a garden wall with coping stones either side of the gate in the front garden. Being very fit and thinking I fancy a bit of gymnastics I put a hand either side and started swinging both legs back and forth, got good height and momentum. The only thing I remembered in the next 16 hours was a tetanus in my arse, I got 8 stitches in the back of my head. Olympic dream over.

[lifetime fan]

About 6/7 years old, I was ignoring my ol fella who kept telling me to not run in flipflops with my hands in my pockets.

 

He still brings it up to this day, usually followed by 'you never have fucking listened'.

[Elite]

42 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

About 6/7 years old, I was ignoring my ol fella who kept telling me to not run in flipflops with my hands in my pockets.

 

He still brings it up to this day, usually followed by 'you never have fucking listened'.

Me and my mate growing up played a game of kicking a bamboo stick through a tube to each other, I was wearing flips flops and to no suprise I ended up with a huge splinter in my foot that required a trip to A&E.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Elite said:

Me and my mate growing up played a game of kicking a bamboo stick through a tube to each other, I was wearing flips flops and to no suprise I ended up with a huge splinter in my foot that required a trip to A&E.

 

 

[Elite]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

It's not a euphemism, although I did end up with some hard wood inside me.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Had an argument with my ex outside holding my daughter who was about two, as she drove off I kicked the car, I had flip flops on and about a minute later my daughter said dad look at your foot. Three toes damaged one broken one dislocated one fractured. Weeks of work lost and getting a panel popped back as well as a toe.

[Trumo]

I alighted the tube at Covent Garden station one evening. It had been pissing it down and where I was going was a lot closer to Covent Garden than Leicester Square. There's an elevator to take passengers from the platform to the station exit, as well as a flight of stairs. The elevator was rammed so I thought I might as well use the stairs. It's a spiral staircase with about a million steps, and my thighs were burning after the ascent. Since then, I've always made sure to use the elevator after getting off at Covent Garden no matter how busy it is.

[Bjornebye]

11 minutes ago, Trumo said:

I alighted the tube at Covent Garden station one evening. It had been pissing it down and where I was going was a lot closer to Covent Garden than Leicester Square. There's an elevator to take passengers from the platform to the station exit, as well as a flight of stairs. The elevator was rammed so I thought I might as well use the stairs. It's a spiral staircase with about a million steps, and my thighs were burning after the ascent. Since then, I've always made sure to use the elevator after getting off at Covent Garden no matter how busy it is.

I can't remember if its Hampstead or Belsize Park... One of the ones round there anyway. Don't ever try and get the stairs. Far more than Covent Garden. 

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

29 minutes ago, Trumo said:

I alighted the tube at Covent Garden station one evening. It had been pissing it down and where I was going was a lot closer to Covent Garden than Leicester Square. There's an elevator to take passengers from the platform to the station exit, as well as a flight of stairs. The elevator was rammed so I thought I might as well use the stairs. It's a spiral staircase with about a million steps, and my thighs were burning after the ascent. Since then, I've always made sure to use the elevator after getting off at Covent Garden no matter how busy it is.

 

RIP YNWA etc

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

A follow up to my gymnastic post, I was 16 and there was 6 inches of snow.

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

A follow up to my gymnastic post, I was 16 and there was 6 inches of snow.

Stick to volleying cars barefoot mate