VIDEO IS GRAPHIC. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED
KUALA LUMPUR: A video clip of a live cockroach wriggling deep inside a woman’s ear canal has induced nausea among netizens worldwide.
The ghastly 35-second footage – which was captured via an endoscope camera by a doctor in Hai Duong, Vietnam – shows the adult insect comfortably nestled in the ear of a woman who had felt something moving in her head, the New York Post reported.
After fifteen seconds of immobility, the vermin begins to sense the presence of the interloping camera, and starts to twitch its rear legs.
Perhaps affronted by the intrusion into its ‘crib,’ or realising that the jig is up, the pest then scrambles to flip itself over (a revolting sight) before sprinting beyond the camera’s lens and straight out of the woman’s ear, the Daily Mail reported.
It is not known if it was able to acquire new lodgings.
The doctor, named Thuoc, believes that the creepy crawley had entered the woman’s ear while she was asleep.
According to the New York Post (and terrifyingly for the rest of us) ears are particularly attractive for ‘nopes’ like cockroaches not only due to their warmth and darkness, but because our earwax emit chemicals that ATTRACT them. (Thanks a lot, earwax).
We’re sleeping with champagne bottle corks in our ears tonight.