26 May 2020, 8:30 am
Three young Bolivian boys were hospitalized earlier this month when they were stung by a black widow spider while tending goats in a small Bolivian village, a report Monday said.
Believing a bite by the spider would give them powers like comic book superhero Spider-Man, the boys, aged 12, 10 and 8 from Chayanta, a town in the Andean region of Potosi, approached the spider on May 14 and poked it with a stick, Virgilio Pietro, epidemiology chief at the Bolivian Ministry of health told Telemundo.
The first symptoms appeared within a few minutes. Their mother rushed them to a local health center. Their health did not improve and they were transferred to a hospital in the town of Llallagua.
When the boys failed to improve overnight, they were taken to the Children's Hospital in La Paz, with muscular pain, sweating, fever and general tremors, Pietro explained. After administering a serum against bites, they improved until they were discharged on May 20, Telemundo reported.
Source: Brothers allowed black widow to sting them believing they'd turn into Spider-Man
I think these boys need to bone up on their comic books. Spider-Man acquired spider-related abilities after a bite from a radioactive spider; these include clinging to surfaces, shooting spider-webs from wrist-mounted devices, and detecting danger with his "spider-sense". They definitely showed a lack of spider-sense!
p.s. Definition of the term "bone up" - try to master necessary information quickly; cram.
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27 May 2020, 12:16 am
I'll bet they're going to ban Spider Man because of this because I heard they did that when some kids believed they could fly like Superman. Yeah kid, you're from the planet Krypton, of course you can fly we were were just hiding it from you. 
And they've put warnings on ADULT Superman costumes saying wearing it won't make you able to fly. I guess they'll have to put warnings on Spider Man costumes saying wearing them won't give you the ability to climb up walls or have Spider Sense.
Why would anyone really want to be like Spider Man anyway. An orphan with a bad case of the guilts because he let a criminal who later murdered his believed uncle get away, and has to work for a jerkface with a Hitler mustache who constantly growls about Spider Man being a menace. In fact, just about all superheroes have pretty sucky lives. 
