Truth really is stranger than fiction.
SPIDER INSIDE HER
Put this one at the top of your nightmare list: A Chinese woman, only known as “Ms. Lee,” went to China’s Changsha Central Hospital, complaining of an itchy ear. When Dr. Liu Sheng took a look inside, he found…a spider living in the woman’s ear canal. Apparently it had crawled in while Lee was asleep. The doctor feared that extracting the spider with surgical equipment might cause it to drill its barbs deeper. So she washed the spider out with a saline solution.
COLOR ME YELLOW
A roadkill-raccoon got an extra stripe when a Pennsylvania road crew painted a yellow traffic line over its corpse. A biker who came across the roadkill thought the foul-up was some kind of joke. “When I saw it, I almost wrecked my motorcycle I was laughing so hard,” he said. It was no joke: The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation usually has a clean-up vehicle ahead of a paint truck to clear debris—and dead raccoons. But on that day, no truck was available. The striped racoon has since been cleaned up, but a foot-long gap remains where “Old Yeller” used to be.