Possible Earwigs

got a garden hose?

 

Yeah!

 

_STILLWATER, Minn. (KARE) - Jake Asp is a football coach's dream, a senior captain who leads on the field, in the weight room, and more recently in the stat column. In five games this year, Jake has run up more than 1,000 yards against western Wisconsin opponents.

Recently, however, Mr. Asp has become more famous for something else.

The morning after a 362 yard game against arch rival New Richmond, Jake woke up with scratches, pops, and stabbing pains in his right ear. "It was pretty bad, because it's so sensitive in your eardrum. It just hurt really bad," recalled Asp.

He hurried to a clinic in Stillwater, where he was examined and told that a dime-sized beetle had taken up residence in his ear. Problem was, it had burrowed in so deep the doctor couldn't remove it. "My worst vision was having to cut open something alongside the ear and remove it that was, figure stitches, recovery time, and everything else, I thought boy, we're going to be in trouble," said Somerset coach Bruce Larson when talking about his first reaction to the news.

The actual scenario was much better; Asp was sent to United Hospital where the beetle was surgically removed.

It was the end of Jake's pain, but the start of a hailstorm of jokes and nicknames that won't end anytime soon. "I pretty much started beetle juice, but I like Ringo"(A reference, of course, to the Beatles of Fab Four Fame) laughed quarterback Justin Trautmiller. "93X came up with that one so Ringo can be good now too."

 

Night Gallery

"Good evening. I'm your little old curator in this museum which we call the Night Gallery. There are horror stories and horror stories, elements of terror that take myriad forms. But this item has a built-in terror which can refrigerate even the most dispassionate amongst us. It has to do with a little beastie known as an earwig, a small bug that crawls into the human ear. And while inside it doesn't whisper sweet nothings -- it performs quite another function.

Hotwater

 

*Runs to car, flys down road, goes to hospital immediately*

 

I've heard of putting a bug in someone's ear but...