Real-life Horror: Spider Web Nearly Kills Boy
There are monsters and goblins and things from the underworld that are unmentionable. Then, there is the horror we wreak upon ourselves, sometimes so surprising, it's scarier than anything imaginable. Along those lines, a young boy recently nearly died from choking in a Halloween decoration in central Florida.
According to Local 6 News, "The Hampton family built a fake spider web out of nylon and draped it inside their Tampa home for Halloween this year. Dawn Hampton said her son, Cade, became entangled in the web and was unable to breathe.
"She said she will never forget finding her son in the web.'His little face, I saw it around his neck and his face is completely reddish purple,' mother Dawn Hampton said.The spider web was so tight that Cade's parents said they were not able to get a finger between it and his neck. The couple quickly cut the nylon with scissors and saved the child.'All I was doing was wrapping it around my shoulders and it caught up to my neck and I couldn't breathe,' Cade said." Cade is OK now.
Has something you bought for Halloween ever turned on you, like the spider web that nearly killed the Cade boy?
Aww, that's so scary! That poor little kid. Good thing he has quick-thinking parents.
The closest I have come is zapping myself when plugging in a very old light-up pumpkin, which unbeknownst to me had a frayed cord. Oww.
That and getting sick from eating too much candy.
This is going to sound really lame, but keep in mind I was only about nine. It was October and I lit two dimestore Halloween candles I'd bought. They decorated my desk with their ghost and pumpkin shapes. It was actually the first time I'd ever struck matches my entire life and had gotten permission to do so. The lame part: I was actually playing Little House On The Prairie in my bedroom (had an antique iron bed, patchwork quilt from Grandma, etc.) The candles tumped over and I practically hyperventilated blowing the desk surface out that briefly caught fire. To this day, I refuse to light birthday candles, strike matches and as a youth was the most reluctant church acolyte you'd ever seen(except for extinguishing the flame). Sometimes I can just stand a few feet from a candle and it mysteriously goes out now. During some college church retreats we had to burn letters to God/confessionals to symbolize purification and three consecutive years the whole trash can of burning letters would just snuff out when I dropped mine in. My assessment:Fear can be a powerful thing.
great stories, both. thanks ax and court!