Unfortunate Experiences with Parasites

Stuporman · 10-02-2007, 12:20 PM

Does anybody have a memorable experience involving parasites? Ticks, leeches, bot flies, bats, whatever you got. No humans, unless they're supernatural.

One time when I was maybe nine, I was walking around with my sister and we went under a tree. I glanced down and saw about four purpose-minded ticks on my shirt. As I frantically tore them off, my sister behind me screamed, "There are ticks everywhere!" It is at this point that I sprinted toward my house in blind fear, leaving my sister for dead. I felt bad about that for a while.

Underwater Ophelia · 10-02-2007, 02:13 PM

HAH HAH HAH. Leaving her for dead!

But yeah. I've had leeches on me. It's no good.

Graveyard.Crow · 10-02-2007, 04:32 PM

I think I would faint if I had something sucking my blood without my permission that happened to be an scary (to me) as a leech.

††BlackRose†† · 10-02-2007, 05:09 PM

A really concerning thing happened in my high school. This was when the school was brand new and I was in grade 9. In our cafeteria a bat appeared from nowhere and everyone screemed and huddled in one corner. It landed on a really tall girl and she took it outside. Fortunately she didnt have any rabis or anything.

There plenty more where that one came from. More bats, but this time all over our library. Which makes me think... how the fuck did construction workers miss them and where the fuck did they come from? LOL

Graveyard.Crow · 10-02-2007, 05:20 PM

I want to go to your school. NOW

††BlackRose†† · 10-02-2007, 05:30 PM

LOL. They got rid of the bats now

Now we have a light flickering problem so you may witness someone getting a siezure (sp?). LOL.

Graveyard.Crow · 10-02-2007, 05:34 PM

Naw.....seizures aren't fun to look at.
But wow, I can't imagine bats in a school. That is so...strange.

††BlackRose†† · 10-02-2007, 05:36 PM

It is. We were all wondering why they were there since it's a new school. But imagine that as a class pet or something. LOL.

Graveyard.Crow · 10-02-2007, 05:42 PM

That makes me jealous.

††BlackRose†† · 10-02-2007, 06:00 PM

I got jealous at the girl who the bat came to!!!! She touched a bat and it was comfortable on her thumb!!!! I wanted to touch it but the teachers were like "you're gonna get rabis" and shit

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Renatus · 10-02-2007, 06:46 PM

Eh rabis isn't such a big deal anymore, thanks to a Wisconsinite a cure is available for any stage of the disease.

Cicero · 10-02-2007, 09:39 PM

We get bats flying into our house in Malaysia a lot, and occassionally sleep hanging from the roof of our carport. They're so damn cute! They aren't parasites though, only vampire bats are parasites.

I kept two leeches as pets once: Louis and Lestat. I'd feed them only on myself, with the thought that eventually every cell in their body would have been derived from me - effectively making them my 'children', haha. They disappeared though, probably making their way to the jungle next to my old house (I hope).

Then there was the time I was out in the rainforest on one of my mother's expeditions. The rain was pelting down and there were leeches EVERYWHERE. I got back to camp and thought I had my period because there was blood running down my legs, but it was just a leech on my bikini line >_> (and just about every other part of my legs).

About two years ago every pet in my house in Malaysia got ticks. Somehow none of the treatments were working, and they kept getting re-introduced by the wild dogs playing with our own dogs. There were literally ticks crawling up every wall, infesting every bed and every couch. We had glasses of alcohol and tweezers all around the house, to kill them after picking them off ourselves, the pets and the furniture. We got one off one of the dogs that was literally a centimetre in diameter.

I actually really like parasites. They're fun.

Nevan · 10-03-2007, 12:24 AM

Not a parasite, but 13 years ago I bit into a juicy peach, chewed and swallowed and when I was just about to take a next bite I discovered half a worm wriggling where I had just bitten. Yech. I haven't touched a peach since.

Cyntrox · 10-03-2007, 12:53 AM

What's worse than finding a worm in an apple...? =P

Nevan · 10-03-2007, 12:57 AM

... realizing that the other half of that worm is in your stomach!

Necropolis · 10-03-2007, 05:52 AM

Cicero, that tick story of yours makes me sick. I hate ticks.

Well, I've had leeches and ticks on me before; not terribly exciting.

Corpsey · 10-03-2007, 06:20 AM

My only experience with parasites has been with Mosquitoes.

Damn those creatures right to Dragonfly Heaven.

Smile · 10-03-2007, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Corpsey

My only experience with parasites has been with Mosquitoes.

Damn those creatures right to Dragonfly Heaven.

Totally agree, Corpsey. Both my legs are covered right now, and I mean covered, with red mosquito bites. I'm like a mobile buffet. *Sigh* And an itchy one too now.

Amarantha · 10-03-2007, 09:22 AM

>.<

Once, stuff happened....in the woods....and there were mosquitoes.

43 BITES.

(Then again, that's not so hard to believe, once one factors in my considerable state of undress...)

If only they weren't a main food source for bats. *sigh*

Underwater Ophelia · 10-03-2007, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Cicero

I kept two leeches as pets once: Louis and Lestat. I'd feed them only on myself, with the thought that eventually every cell in their body would have been derived from me - effectively making them my 'children', haha. They disappeared though, probably making their way to the jungle next to my old house (I hope).

Are you serious? What is with people? Leeches are DIRTY. You can get horrible infections from that! Why do people just allow themselves to be put in harm's way?

Renatus · 10-03-2007, 11:47 AM

Depends on where you get the leeches, they still are used for medical purposes even in this day and age, though not as freely as they did hundreds of years ago ("go on eat the little boy"- Dr. Nick Riviera treating Mozart).

Underwater Ophelia · 10-03-2007, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Renatus

Depends on where you get the leeches, they still are used for medical purposes even in this day and age, though not as freely as they did hundreds of years ago ("go on eat the little boy"- Dr. Nick Riviera treating Mozart).

Yeah, I'm guessing she didn't get her leeches from a hospital.

††BlackRose†† · 10-03-2007, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Corpsey

My only experience with parasites has been with Mosquitoes.

Damn those creatures right to Dragonfly Heaven.

Yes I know I really do hate them. They even attacked my face before!!! Its really weird walking around with swollen red bites on your face. LOL.

gothicusmaximus · 10-03-2007, 02:32 PM

Once, I was sitting in a park looking at the stars with my girlfriend when some bizarre black substance from a distant world fell from the heavens and immediately attached itself to the back of my scooter. I awoke later that night to find myself dressed in a black version of my ordinary costume, overwhelmed by a feeling of europhia and an ecstatic sensation of invincibility. I began to wear this strange black costume with great frequency, even as my physics professor, with whom I had provided a sample of the strange substance by which it was composed, warned me, "I'm not a biologist, but this seems to possess the characteristics of a symbiote. It enhances its host's aggression and desire to wear emo bangs to dangerous levels- if I were you, I wouldn't make a costume out of this a wear it." Ultimately, after the symbiote caused me to beat the shit out of my girlfriend, I retreated to the tower of a cathedral and banished it from my body forever using the intense sonic vibrations produced by the church bell. Mary Jane and I made up, I forgave Sandman, my best friend died, and everyone's friends now.

Cicero · 10-03-2007, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia

Are you serious? What is with people? Leeches are DIRTY. You can get horrible infections from that! Why do people just allow themselves to be put in harm's way?

You can't get diseases from leeches - they don't feed often enough for diseases to survive in them, and are not a known vector for any pathogens. My mother's colleagues are leech experts, I discussed these things with them before proceeding with my 'experiment' (though it was mainly just for laughs anyway).

And I got the leeches from the middle of the rainforest in Taman Negara, the biggest national park in Malaysia. Probably one of the cleanest places on earth when you consider how 'unclean' most human-inhabited places (and indeed most HOSPITALS) are.