Posted on 07/04/2009 8:13:58 PM PDT by Morgana
IRONTON, Ohio (WSAZ) -- It's not what Amy Darby expected when she woke up Friday morning.
She thought it was a string or a blade of grass--but then she noticed it start moving.
"It looks like a piece of grass that's alive," Darby said outside her place of work Friday.
Darby claims at 4:30 a.m., a brown worm came out of her kitchen faucet. She called the city's water department. Darby said she was referred to the health department.
"It's beyond creepy," Darby said. "It looks like a tapeworm that would be inside of a human. And this is coming out of my tap water at home."
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A result of 6 months of the Obama economic plan (well I’m sure the MSM would have connected to Bush a year ago).
Call King Obama. He’ll prolly fly out in Air Farce one and personally kill that phucking worm.
Brita is Betta.
I knew it would not take long for the obama jokes to start! Truth be told...crap like this never happened under Bush...even after Katrina. You know what this means? OBAMA’S FAULT!
I hope nobody killed it until they made sure it was not an endangered species.
Wow, what a busy guy. Just after honoring the Troops and before flying to a summit in Russia!
Well water is so much better. No worms or mind altering fluoride.
It isn’t a tapeworm, not even close. That lady could stand to lose some weight anyway, LOL
OK, it is a “horsehair” worm, and they do not infect humans, but I’d still be freaked out. They do infect animals (bugs, not pets), and while humans aren’t part of their normal life cycle, I’d be very concerned about how long one might survive and grow inside a human if directly ingested.
Of course, if they DID infect a human for a while, I’m sure they wouldn’t do the damage they do their normal hosts (such as grasshoppers). They grow so large they burst out of their hosts back into the streams where they reproduce. How do they get into the streams? Amazingly, THEY TAKE OVER THE BRAINS OF THEIR HOSTS, driving them mad with thirst!
Well, you are a wealth of information. I just wish I didn’t read it. Never heard of such a thing.
I'd be more freaked out if a dead worm lopped out of the faucet.
She should put a screen on the faucet to prevent more worms from escaping.
lopped = plopped
Get ready for lots more third-world stories in the months and years to come.
“she’s a nurse....you can tell by the uniform.”
Bah! That’s not a nurse’s uniform IMO. Sure, it may be easier to launder and all, but IMO a nurse should dress like Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. Somehow, scrub suits escaped from the operating room and became standard clothing for nurses and quite a few doctors!
Saw this ID in a comment, and it seems to check out. You learn something new everyday.
+1
I wonder if it got in via pipe repairs, or there is a backflow problem in a neighbor’s house or her house. Normal filtering of municipal water should eliminate anything the size of a worm egg, let alone a worm.
Works for me!
Works for me!
I have seen almost peanut (shelled) sized rocks in faucets because of that and countless BB sized pebbles.
I don’t want to know!!!!!!!!!!
Watch out...you'll get the anti-enviro FReepers all upset that you might care about protecting groundwater resources!
Water taste like tequila, by any chance?
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