Here's one for you people who have a "thing" about bugs... especially the blood sucking kind... (Sent by a minion who cites Reuters as the source.)
An Austrian girl was bitten by 150 ticks in what doctors say appears to be a record blood-sucking spree, state television ORF said on Tuesday.
The 10-year-old girl was attacked by the swarm of ticks as she cycled through a meadow near her home in the northern province of Upper Austria. "We've never seen such an invasion," said Dr. Klaus Schmid, head of the internist division at the local hospital.
The girl was lucky to have been vaccinated against tick poison, which can be fatal.
Now... go out and enjoy that hike through the woods...