Doctors Pull Cockroach From A Man's Ear | PHOTO

Doctors in Australia came to the aid of
a man this week who realized a large
cockroach had crawled into his ear.
Hendrik Helmer, of Darwin, Australia,
told radio station 105.7 ABC Darwin he
first noticed something was wrong
when he woke up early in the morning
with acute pain in his right ear.
Somehow, Helmer sensed a creepy
crawler was to blame, although he
wasn't yet sure exactly what it was.
"I was hoping it was not a poisonous
spider," Helmer told the station. "I was
hoping it didn't bite me."
As the pain worsened, Helmer
attempted first to suck the creature out
with a vacuum cleaner, and then to
flush it out with water.
"Whatever was in my ear didn't like it
at all," he noted.
Helmer eventually gave up and rushed
to the Royal Darwin Hospital, where he
was forced to wait 10 extremely painful
minutes for the creature to die before a
doctor could extract it.