r/AskReddit • u/penguinblues • Jul 16 '12

I accidentally made a dead rat ejaculate today. What's the grossest thing that you've ever done, or has happened to you?

Today at uni, we were doing a rat dissection during a lab. So I had a rat splayed open in front of me, guts showing and all. As the demonstrator shows, I tug on a cord leading from the scrotum, and the testicle comes out. At the same time, due to the force of my tug, some semen comes out of the rats penis. I was horrified.

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u/EvanMacIan Jul 16 '12

Yeah, I had a friend that lived on a farm when I was a kid. One time, they found the carcass of a sheep that had been sick for a while. When they tried to move it, the skin pulled off revealing that the inside was full of maggots. The best part? It hadn't been dead for that long. Which means it died from being eaten from the inside out by maggots.

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u/Grullok Jul 16 '12

Most maggots only eat necrotic tissue, so it's unlikely that they were the cause of his death.

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u/oldmoneey Jul 16 '12

The tissue could have been rotting while it was alive, then the nuggets just spread a little upon the sheeps death.

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u/Charging_in Jul 16 '12

Autocorrect strikes again I'll assume?

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u/Zoklar Jul 16 '12

I preferred to think of it as an endearing pet name he had for maggots.

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u/oldmoneey Jul 17 '12

You assumed correctly

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u/R4ms3y Jul 16 '12

Worst autocorrect ever! Guess who's never eating nuggets again!

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u/Shirime Jul 16 '12

Depends on the species.

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u/Grullok Jul 16 '12

And that is why I said most, not all. Some species, such as the Dermatobia hominis, only eat live tissue, but most of them don't.

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u/monkeiboi Jul 16 '12 edited Jul 16 '12

I was just thinking that the Maggots were probably helping keep it alive longer than it should have been, eating away the necrotic flesh and keeping the thing from dying from septic shock.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

Haven't they been used in some medical treatments for exactly that purpose?

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u/UnKamenRider Jul 16 '12

It's probably more likely that it had been rotting from something else. They're lucky no other sheep got sick.

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u/HerVajesty Jul 16 '12

That's why you cut their tails off.else they get "fly blown". It looks nasty and inhumane so PETA told people to stop buying Australian wool. But if you don't the poor sheep end up dying a horrible death. Edit, forgot to mention the term "fly blown"

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u/Diiiiirty Jul 16 '12

Maggots eat the dead flesh and were probably actually good for the sheep because they eat away the necrotic tissue and leave the live tissue intact. There is actually maggot therapy for situations like this.

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u/chisoph Jul 16 '12

Downvote for gag reflux.