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THE REALLY SCARY ATTACK OF THE KILLER GECKO THAT LURKS IN THE HOTELS OF THAILAND One peaceful morning on March 31, 2002, a family of Americans that were staying at a hotel learned a really valuable lesson. They were moving to a different hotel that day partly because the room below them was unoccupied, and therefore had no air conditioning on, and therefore became like an oven, heating their floor and the beds on it so much that they had to move to another room to get some sleep. The two kids, Danielle and Marie, were bidding the cats that lived at the hotel goodbye, while their parents were doing some last minute packing. Or so they said, but it seemed like their father had actually been out hunting geckos, as he came back with a orange-spotted blue gecko that was at least 7 inches long, head to tail. Usually, the geckos that are commonly found on the walls of hotels are only 3 inches or so, and are colored tan or yellow. He brought it down to where the kids were and let Danielle hold it while he went back up to do some real packing. It was really cute, and didn't seem to have teeth. On closer inspection, Danielle saw that it did, but they were just itty bitty ones that looked like grains of sand. Well, after about three minutes of messing with it, it suddenly grabbed Danielle's index finger and bit down with surprising strength for its size! She tried to get it off, but it just ground harder. Finally her dad heard her, came down, and got its jaws open. she rushed up to the hotel room where her mom helped her wash off the cuts in the bathtub. Of course, the doctor's office next to the hotel didn't open until 9:00, and then when it opened, the nurse said it would be another half hour until the doctor actually came. So they drove her to the hospital. The nurses at the hospital cleaned up the cuts and bandaged them, and then prescribed some antibiotics to take three times a day. Danielle's dad, being accustomed to the really outrageous prices at the Misawa Air Base hospital which they usually went to, was slightly surprised at the bill, which was equivelant to about $20. So, the bite wound healed without even the slightest infection, the parents got to keep their $500 (that they probably would have lost if the prices had been like in Misawa A.B.), the gecko died of suffocation because dad put it in a bag to show the doctors to ask if it was poisonous, which it wasn't, and everyone learned a really good lesson about geckos. So, if you see a 6-inch long gecko sitting at your doorstep, please leave it alone. But for me, and for all the people in Australia who have geckos that climb on the ceiling while they are sleeping and then drop down on their faces and bite them (this is true--it is a real problem in Australia), but for me, it is THE END |
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