3 kids make black widow sting them to give them superpowers

In what can only be envisioned as a pinnacle of the idiocy of youth, 3 Bolivian boys captured a black widow and then harassed it until it stung all of them because they wanted to have Spiderman's superpowers.

I would imagine that it is only a matter of time before the Karens come out of the woodwork to demand that Marvel either not make films like this or explain that this is fiction instead of parents actually being parents, but in the meantime, since the boys did not die, it is ok to laugh at them.

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The Black Widow is one of the most venomous creatures on Earth but despite this impressive defense mechanism, it is not an aggressive creature and will only use its own superpower if you give it no other choice: And this is precisely what the sibling boys aged 8-12 did.

The prodded it with a stick for quite some time before the spider became scared or enraged enough to bite all three of them. Their mother heard them crying and writhing in pain rather than turning into Peter Parker and rushed them to a hospital. They had to be transferred to 2 other hospitals since the first two were not equipped to handle this sort of thing.

According to arachnid specializing entomologists (really smart people who know everything about spiders,) The Black Widow has a sting 15 times as venomous as a rattlesnake's but does not have a reputation for being aggressive. Basically you have to work pretty hard to get it to sting you unless you are the size of a fly or mosquito, which it considers food.

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The boys spent a week in the hospital definitely not gaining super powers and instead were racked with fevers, intense muscle aches, and sporadic tremors.

Personally, I have no idea what has to go on in a kids mind to come up with such nonsense and not being able to separate fantasy from reality and while an 8 year old can almost be excused for such idiocy, the 12 year old should have known better and taken charge.

While these types of spider bites are rarely fatal in humans, it certainly is not a nice experience and I think you have to be a special kind of "special" to think otherwise. Thankfully none of them died or have any sort of lasting issue that has been created because of this: I certainly hope they learned a valuable lesson here but that doesn't make this story, and the people involved in it any less.....