Posted on 08/23/2011 9:28:06 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
Moth: 1, Jock: 0.
Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday was forced to leave Monday night's game against the Dodgers in the eighth inning after a moth flew into his right ear and became lodged in the canal.
A trainer had to use tweezers to remove the insect, according to StLToday.com. And yes, he took the moth with him after leaving the park.
Why doesn’t this ever happen to Justin Upton?
I suppose moth balls could plug up an ear.
That was an act of cruelty on the part of Holliday! the moth was just looking for a warm home. Remember what happened to that pitcher that beaned that bird? Whew! Look out for the PETA nuts to go (more) crazy.
Actually Carpenter didn’t leave the game due to the moth. The moth was removed in the 8th inning. He faced one batter in the 9th and when he hit the batter he was removed for a reliever.
They reported this this morning and went into some detail. They first got a lamp and tried to lure it out that way; ended up pulling it out with an ‘implement’ lol. I see they used tweezers. and..it was still alive.
Reminds me of a Twilight Zone I saw (I think it was TZ) anyway this man was captured by an enemy and they tortured him by inserting a worm in his ear telling him that no human being had ever lived after because the worm ‘eats’ its way through the brain and exits out the other ear. IIRC they told him if he lived they would release him. Long story short: through days of the torture of this worm eating through..it exited and the guy was still alive. Of course he celebrated! But he kept getting headaches and went to the doctor and he told him that the good news was that yes indeed he was the first human to live through that experience. The bad news? It was a female and she layed eggs. :O
My grandmother got a moth in ear, she said it was pretty excruciating, like galloping horses right on your ear drum.
Freegards
OK, to start with I am a lepidopterist...I literally have tens of thousands of moths at my house (dead) and I raise hundreds of them alive every year.
However, that has NOTHING to do with this story.
A Similar thing happened to me in the 80’s. While sleeping a “June beetle” - a small brown beetle common around here in summer, climbed into my ear while I was sleeping. I awoke at 3AM to this THING crawling DEEP inside my ear. I had to use a bamboo skewer to get him out. It was, by far, the most disgusting “bug thing” to ever happen to me in a life FILLED with semi-disgusting bug things.
Silence of the Lambs
Randy Johnson. He hit a bird one night and it literally exploded.
Pretty funny stuff. If I were the manager I would have had it stuffed and mounted somewhere in the locker room.
So did a PETA representative make a visit to ensure the safety of the moth?
And *that* is where my Earwig phobia came from....LOL
Wouldn’t have happened in Denver Matt.
An ant got into my ear when I was a kid. I clearly remember the pain...plus it sounded like an elephant stomping around on my ear drum...boom, boom, boom. (Found out it was an ant only after it walked out.)
You're right--it was Matt Halliday, not Carpenter.
It helps to actually read not only the article, but the headline, where it says "Outfielder."
This happened to me a few years back.
It drove me nuts. It was alive and fluttering. Itchy and ticklish at the same time. I was banging my head on the wall, yelling and even tried the vacuum cleaner. No help.
I was panicking because my brain is 90% army surplus wool and I think he was eating it. I was afraid if he kept eating, I’d end up voting Democrat.
Anyway, my wife quickly Asked Jeeves and the fix was baby oil.
Lay on your side, put in some oil, and it will die and float into reach. Immediately, in my case.
I think we killed it in time, I have not voted Left or anything. However, I caught myself coveting a few times since then... so, we’re keeping an eye on it. If that feeling develops into an economic policy... I’m committing myself.
ewwww.
I had a gnat crawl in my ear just a few weeks ago; I went into a full fledged panic! (Kept thinking of that TZ or Night gallery episode-as another poster said it was from). Q-Tips work wonders.
hmmmm have tens of thousands? Kinda like that guy in ‘Silence of the Lambs?... LOL j/k
I guess she tried pouring something in her ear, like rubbing alcohol, but I reckon she couldn’t stand it, and had someone take her down to the doctors.
The ant might have not been as loud as a moth, but moths sure don’t sting or bite like ants do. An ant sting on an ear drum couldn’t be a good thing!!
Freegards
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