Paralyzed man bitten by poisonous spider, gets unparalyzed…

…and should never, ever play the lottery again. He’s used up that particular well of luck.

Paraplegic Man Suffers Spider Bite, Walks Again

He has been confined to a wheelchair for 20 years. Now a paraplegic man is walking again, and his doctors call it a miracle. CBS13 went to Manteca to find out how a spider bite helped get him back on his feet.

Fark is waiting for the web-slinging abilities to manifest, but I am going to commit heresy and say that making Spider-Man’s web-slingers biological in origin never suited me completely. I liked the idea of Peter Parker being a gadgeteer, sorry.

Oh, well. Even if he doesn’t get them, Mr. Blancarte’s still ahead of the game.

Moe Lane

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