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Students hit by falling maggots

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Students in a Fairfield High School literature class got a scare earlier this month when a half-dozen of the larvae fell through ceiling tiles onto their heads.

It was the ‘‘grossest experience’’ in the 17 years of David Day, who heard a little ‘‘boop’’ and looked down and saw an inch-long maggot wriggling on the floor.
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I wonder what they were studying at the time. Edgar Allan Poe, perhaps? :D
 
I predict some multi-million dollar lawsuits for "emotional trauma".

In some other parts of the world......they'd call it manna from heaven........
 
An inch long is not that big for a maggot. That's about how big many types of maggots are when they get ready to pupate. My guess is that they were feeding on a dead rat in a vaulted ceiling and were heading downwards, looking for some nice dirt to sleep in for a while.

My maggot horror story is a lot worse than this. *Warning* - if you are a bit easily disturbed by "fear factor" types of activities, read no further.

When I was about 14-15, I lived on a ranch, much as I do now. My father got a frantic call from an elderly neighbor woman. She had a cow that was having trouble trying to give birth. When we arrived, it was apparent that the calf had been dead for some time and the cow was still struggling to get the calf born. Dead for some time was a slight underestimation.

We brought with us a device, known as a "calf puller". It has a brace that goes against the cow and a pole that comes out to a hand winch. You attach the end of the cable around the calf's feet and *gently* crank on the winch. This helps the cow to give birth in a difficult situation.

This time, the calf had come about 1/3 of the way out when it exploded, throwing foul-smelling putrefied flesh and large numbers of maggots all over my father and myself. I was amazed that the cow could live with a rotted calf carcass full of maggots inside of her. The cow lived. My guess is that the maggots cleaned out any infection as well as fed upon the dead calf.
 
Since we're telling gross maggot stories . . .

My little sister had a pet rabbit one time and, in due course, it got very old. One morning it got sick too and wouldn't move. She loved the stupid thing and decided to try and nurse it back to health.

So she puts it in a shobox and keeps it in her bedroom for a few days, feeding it and keeping it clean as well as she could and not moving it too much . . .

After a day or so it was shifting uncomfortably in the box so she decides to take it out for a pet . . .

Something drops off into the box as she picks it up . . .

So she turns it over to find . . .

I'll leave the rest to your imaginations. Suffice to say Mr Rabbit had an urgent meeting with Mr Vet and his friend Mr Needle.

And the shoebox was burned.

Graham
 
A buddy of mine and I were having lunch one time in the market of a small town in the state of Queretaro, Mexico. He is a strict vegetarian. Great cook, too. But how can vegetarians become overweight?

Anyhow, he is spooning through some nice soup that had been whipped together for him. Snacking through Mexico can be a wonderful pastime.

When he came up with the maggot right in the middle of his bowl I started laughing. Such moods are contagious, too. When the cook came over to see what the fuss was, she just shrugged, smiled and then pointed to the ceiling.
 
What in God's name were Harvey Feirstein, Boy George, Quentin Crisp and others doing in the Ceiling?



Oh...... Maggots.

Never mind

:D
 
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