Ants in His Pants

These ants are smart enough to know that a diet of fruits and vegetables is a one-way ticket to the funny farm.

An elderly man was bitten hundreds of times on his legs and genitals by a swarm of flesh-eating ants as he lay in his hospital bed.

Cornelius Lewis, 76, was in the intensive care unit at Gulf Coast Medical Center in Florida, recovering from an operation to fit a pacemaker the day before the ant attack.

Remarkably, because he was attacked beneath the bed sheets, medical staff didn't even notice the ants were literally feasting on him until they pulled back the covers hours later.

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'He was supposed to be monitored every 10 minutes,' Neil Lewis told Florida website Newspress.com.

'My mom was there, and they didn’t give her any information.

'They said, "Let’s just get him out of the room." And my father was so exhausted he didn’t have the ability to complain.'

[Daily Mail]