Wannabe Spidermen

[DrHenley]

https://nypost.com/2020/05/25/boys-let-black-widow-bite-them-in-hopes-of-turning-into-spider-man/
Boys let black widow bite them in hopes of turning into Spider-Man
The Marvel-loving siblings — aged 12, 10 and 8 — found the spider while herding goats in Chayanta, a Ministry of Health official revealed at coronavirus briefing Saturday, according to Telemundo.

Thinking it would give them superhero powers, they prodded it with a stick until it bit each of them in turn, the official, Virgilio Pietro, said.

 

[Jayson]

You can’t fix stupid.

 

[KateMTx]

Kids do some really dumb things. My boss's 4 year old once stuck a hair pin in an electrical outlet and burnt himself thinking it would give him electricity like He-Lectrix from Incredibles.

 

[dirtdiva]

Kids do some really dumb things. My boss's 4 year old once stuck a hair pin in an electrical outlet and burnt himself thinking it would give him electricity like He-Lectrix from Incredibles.

My second son jumped out of the back of my parked Jeep with a red towel tied around his neck trying to be Superman. Yeah that was 6 stitches. I raised 3 stairstep little boys. Oh the things little boys do. They are all sane productive human beings NOW

 

[Jayson]

 

[Maverick]

You would think the 12 year old would have had some sense. Given this day in age nothing surprises me

 

[KateMTx]

You would think the 12 year old would have had some sense. Given this day in age nothing surprises me

Yeah 12 is a bit old for this type of shenanigans. My 12 year old sister, sometimes I wonder. She's very intelligent but doesn't always display a lot of common sense.

 

[Brent S]

Yeah, natural selection at its finest. The worst I’ve heard were two kids that snorted fire ants before an Ozzie ozzborne concert. They weren’t lucky enough to live to tell the tale later on.

 

[KateMTx]

Yeah, natural selection at its finest. The worst I’ve heard were two kids that snorted fire ants before an Ozzie ozzborne concert. They weren’t lucky enough to live to tell the tale later on.

????? How old were these kids? Had they ever been bit by a fire ant before? Fire ants hurt as much as some wasps and bees depending on where they sting you. Just the thought is horrifying.

 

[GaRp58]

When I think back on some of the **** we did as 4 brothers, it is a wonder I turned into who I am at the moment and even survived, Shoulda died about 11 times before I even turned 15...I was happy to see my son doing the things a 13 that I was already trying when I was 9...GP

 

[Maverick]

????? How old were these kids? Had they ever been bit by a fire ant before? Fire ants hurt as much as some wasps and bees depending on where they sting you. Just the thought is horrifying.

I heard that story is fake of two teenagers snorting fire ants. My youngest sister had to be taken to the hospital from Port Bolivar to Houston hospital because she walked through a fire ant nest when she was two, they almost killed her back in 66.

 

[jontte]

back in the days when there wasn't these safety sockets,I remeber my mom was doing the dishes, cliembed up on the top,sat down and inserted to large spikes in the socket,didn't do it again,that must have left me some marks in my brain as I was crazy enough to go to paramedic school later in life

 

[GaRp58]

Must have KNOCKED some common sense into you jontte...

 

[Brent S]

I heard that story is fake of two teenagers snorting fire ants. My youngest sister had to be taken to the hospital from Port Bolivar to Houston hospital because she walked through a fire ant nest when she was two, they almost killed her back in 66.

I saw it on some show about different ways to die. They were pre teen or maybe up to 14 ish. The show said they both went into anaphylactic shock and their airways swelled shut. Honestly I have no clue if it was real although the show presented it as so.

 

[Brent S]

I heard that story is fake of two teenagers snorting fire ants. My youngest sister had to be taken to the hospital from Port Bolivar to Houston hospital because she walked through a fire ant nest when she was two, they almost killed her back in 66.

Yes, your right, the story was bogus. Ozzie was rumored to have snorted fire ants once but never actually did it. He did snort a small spider however..... just another reason to avoid drugs. The show about the two boys doing it was based on rumor as well. Even though it was presented as a documentary and looked legitimate, it was just entertainment. It supposedly happened in California in 2001 but Ozzie never toured there in that year. I’m beginning to think the whole world is full of crap.....

 

[jontte]

You BET it did GaRp,after that I've always been very,very careful of electricity,a lesson learned.

 

[DrHenley]

The story about Ozzy snorting ants may be false, but it is more than just a rumor. It is in the Mötley Crüe biopic movie The Dirt and in the book the movie was based on. The members of the band say it's true, but Ozzy says he doesn't remember it happening. In the story, it does not say they are fire ants however, so they could have been just pissants.

Here is Nikki Sixx's "eyewitness account" of the incident:

I handed him the straw, and he walked over to a crack in the sidewalk and bent over it. I saw a long column of ants, marching to a little sand dugout where the pavement met the dirt. And as I thought, “No, he wouldn’t,” he did. He put the straw to his nose and, with his bare white ass peeking out from under the dress like sliced honeydew, sent the entire line of ants tickling up his nose with a single, monstrous snort.

He stood up, reared back his head, and concluded with a powerful rightnostriled sniff that probably sent a stray ant or two dripping down his throat. Then he hiked up the sundress, grabbed his dick, and pissed on the pavement. Without even looking at his growing audience—everyone on the tour was watching him while the old women and families on the pool deck were pretending not to—he knelt down and, getting the dress soggy in the puddle, lapped it up. He didn’t just flick it with his tongue, he took a half-dozen long, lingering, and thorough strokes, like a cat. Then he stood up and, eyes blazing and mouth wet with urine, looked straight at me. “Do that, Sixx!”
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https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/03/the-dirt-movie-ozzy-osbourne

 

[Mountain trapper]

You mean it doesn't work that way?!? Dang. Guess I can stop looking for black widows now.

 

[DrHenley]

You mean it doesn't work that way?!? Dang. Guess I can stop looking for black widows now.

They need to be irradiated first.

 

[Jayson]

Fire ants hurt as much as some wasps and bees depending on where they sting you. Just the thought is horrifying.

I had a single fire ant get into my boot and bite me on that flesh flap between the toes. It burned like napalm and it felt like my toes were in a steel vise.

 

[Kevin L]

I saw people do increadibly stupid s---t when I was a medic.

A patient once took a .357 magnum revolver and--on nothing more than an impulse--put the muzzle against the palm of his hand and blew a hole clean through.

The wall of the kitchen looked like a Jackson Pollock painting, and there were bone fragments imbedded in the mess like thumbtacks . . . or minature Japanese shaken throwing stars.

This idiot did this to himself because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

My partner (at the time) told me to "stay professional" when I slipped and called him a dumbass . . . and after I apologize to the patient, she then told him that he would look kind of funny trying to play with himself with a hook.

I guess you would have had to have been there.

 

[GaRp58]

I had a soldier in Göppingen at the firing range back in 1979. He had used his M-16 to assemble his folding cot and bent the barrel. (we did not know that and only found this out later) At the range he could not hit the target. (we did not know this either till later) He decided that he must have loaded BLANKS into the magazine( the US Army has LOTS of blanks, but those are usually called OFFICERS) Since he thought there were blanks and there was only one way to find out if BULLETS were even coming out of the business end of the M-16, he decided to hold two fingers up on the muzzle and FEEL the bullet grazing by on its way downrange...(at 2700 feet per second and a breach pressure at 55.ooo PSI... (ByTheWay) All we know was, after the fact, he had started screaming and holding his hand. We went to see what had happened and found that he had LOST THOSE TWO FINGERS is a sudden and unawaited manner.......GP

 

[Kevin L]

I had a soldier in Göppingen at the firing range back in 1979. He had used his M-16 to assemble his folding cot and bent the barrel. (we did not know that and only found this out later) At the range he could not hit the target. (we did not know this either till later) He decided that he must have loaded BLANKS into the magazine( the US Army has LOTS of blanks, but those are usually called OFFICERS) Since he thought there were blanks and there was only one way to find out if BULLETS were even coming out of the business end of the M-16, he decided to hold two fingers up on the muzzle and FEEL the bullet grazing by on its way downrange...(at 2700 feet per second and a breach pressure at 55.ooo PSI... (ByTheWay) All we know was, after the fact, he had started screaming and holding his hand. We went to see what had happened and found that he had LOST THOSE TWO FINGERS is a sudden and unawaited manner.......GP

Yikes!

In EMS, we called that "job security".

It makes me wonder how our ancestors even managed to live.

 

[DrHenley]

It makes me wonder how our ancestors even managed to live.

Our ancestors weren't taught that nobody should suffer any consequences for their bad decisions.

 

[Kevin L]

Our ancestors weren't taught that nobody should suffer any consequences for their bad decisions.

Or maybe they were more intelligent?

Really, really stupid people weren't enabled in the way they are now.

You saw the movie Idiocracy, I assume?

They never acknowledge it, but this movie was based on a classic, very famous science fiction novella called "The Marching Morons", by C. M. Kornbluth.

 

[KateMTx]

I had a single fire ant get into my boot and bite me on that flesh flap between the toes. It burned like napalm and it felt like my toes were in a steel vise.

Yep - fingers and toes are the worst place to get bitten.

Yikes!

In EMS, we called that "job security".

It makes me wonder how our ancestors even managed to live.

I think there's some idiocracy at work. Common sense seems to be more and more a thing of the past. Then again there have probably always been stupid ones but they just died quicker back then because there wasn't the medical care needed to save them.

 

[Kevin L]

Yep - fingers and toes are the worst place to get bitten.


I think there's some idiocracy at work. Common sense seems to be more and more a thing of the past. Then again there have probably always been stupid ones but they just died quicker back then because there wasn't the medical care needed to save them.

You should read "The Marching Morons" by C. M. Kornbluth. You can find it for free on line. It's a very famous novella from the Golden Age of science fiction (early 1940s to early 1960s, depending upon whom you ask)

Idiocracy was a rip-off of this novella.

 

[DrHenley]

Then again there have probably always been stupid ones but they just died quicker back then because there wasn't the medical care needed to save them.

I went to high school with one in the sixties.

First, he threw his father's car in reverse at 60 MPH to see what would happen.

Then he really pulled a doozy. He dumped 10 gallons of gas down the sewer and threw a cherry bomb in.
The cherry bomb didn't go off.
So he threw another cherry bomb in.
It didn't go off.
So he threw a third cherry bomb in, and stood there looking down into the manhole to see if he could figure out why the first two didn't go off.
It caught his clothes and hair on fire. The next manhole down the street blew off and two girls caught on fire.
The two girls rolled over in the grass to put it out.
Dumbass ran all the way home fanning the flames.

 

[Kevin L]

I went to high school with one in the sixties.

First, he threw his father's car in reverse at 60 MPH to see what would happen.

Then he really pulled a doozy. He dumped 10 gallons of gas down the sewer and threw a cherry bomb in.
The cherry bomb didn't go off.
So he threw another cherry bomb in.
It didn't go off.
So he threw a third cherry bomb in, and stood there looking down into the manhole to see if he could figure out why the first two didn't go off.
It caught his clothes and hair on fire. The next manhole down the street blew off and two girls caught on fire.
The two girls rolled over in the grass to put it out.
Dumbass ran all the way home fanning the flames.

So Dr. Henley, I have one question: was he a flaming *******?

 

[DrHenley]

So Dr. Henley, I have one question: was he a flaming *******?

No he was a flaming pie hole, LOL.