Things That Bother Dawn
Updated February 7th, 2013
Without question, one of our favorite things about our little radio program is finding news stories about things that go "bump" in the night (or squish) for no other reason than to freak Dawn out and provoke her into some sort of breakdown on the air. Dawn has so many irrational fears that frankly, they wouldn't all fit on this wepbage (some fun examples for openers: finding a snake in her toilet, having large pipes fall off the bed of an 18 wheeler and crushing her, and getting "scabies" from bedsheets, and anything involving maggots). But every now and then, we at the Rob, Arnie and Dawn show find actual news stories that play into Dawn's paranoia. Because Dawn's nightmares are amusing to us, we have decided to create this webpage to chronicle these stories. If you think you've found an actual news story that needs to be part of our "Things That Bother Dawn" feature? Click here to email us with the link to the story.
And now... without further adieu...
"Things that Bother Dawn..."
***NEW*** - Dad, daughter arrested after DNA proved they had child together.
- Restaurant shut down after roadkill brought into kitchen.
- Bob Dyer: One twisted family tree - woman finds out later husband was also her father.
- Snake that slithered inside a car found dead.
- Kailash Singh - Probably the world's smelliest man.
- Spider Found Living In Woman's Ear Canal.
- Mumbai doctors remove 12.5cm-long worm from man's eye.
- Woman chomps spider she says was in Chef Boyardee ravioli.
- Severe turbulence injures five.
- 36 dead cats found in home of retired teacher, 65
- African scientists warn that eating monkeys and apes could cause 'the next HIV'
- Fore! Errant golf ball knocks out Murfreesboro motorcyclist's teeth.
- Very large snake still on prowl in Columbia neighborhood.
- McDonald's customer finds deep fried cockroach on his hashbrown.
- Customer finds human finger in Arby's sandwich.
- VIDEO VERSION OF "THINGS TO BOTHER DAWN" - During a trip to Belize, a botfly decided that it wanted to live underneath her scalp. Grab a snack and watch this video of the removal of the botfly from her head, enjoy!
- Reusable grocery bag carried nasty norovirus, scientists say.
- 75-year-old man bitten, dragged by alligator at a golf course pond.
- Man cowers in bathroom after his home is attacked by tens of thousands of killer bees.
- The 5 Grossest Things You're Eating.
- Starbucks de-bugs its menu offerings.
- Upstate McDonald's employee arrested after phlegm found in tea.
- High winds blamed for one death.
- One person adds 37 million bacteria to a room.
- More huge Gambian rats found on Grass Key.
- Titanoboa: How did a snake ever get so big?
- 25,000 bees make home in Tennessee man's car.
- Staten Island man finds California Kingsnake in his toilet bowl.
- 10 Weirdest Medical Syndromes.
- Women find snake in trunk of rental car.
- Frozen in time: The artist who makes creepy crawlies into part-insect, part-machine masterpieces.
- Puerto Rico proposes iguana eradication plan for Iguana Burgers.
- Houston family sues after taping ants in breathing tube.
- NattO, Maggot Cheese and other food that may repel.
- Baby found playing with a dead mouse in her mouth at pre-school.
- That's McDisgusting! Shocking video 'shows a mouse running riot in a bag of Big Mac buns'
- Wretched wreck: Tanker carrying 7,000 gallons of raw sewage overturns on Essex County highway.
- Snake found under Calgary sink.
- Ann Arbor-area nursing home where maggots infested patient also had more serious violations.
- I chewed a live frog hidden in my Nando's chicken wrap.
- The 8 germiest places in the mall.
- Jason Good arrested for taking secret video of naked mother-in-law.
- Zimbabwean man gets shock of his life when prostitute he ordered ends up being his daughter.
- A taxidermist from England has developed a craving for roadkill during her pregnancy.
- Fort Collins woman hit in face with unsecured sledgehammer while driving.
- Expectant South African couple discover they are brother and sister.
- Adult deer found inside python in Everglades.
- 15 insects you won't believe are edible.
- Hives bigger, killer bees meaner this year, say experts after attacks.
- Insects: the future of food?
- Mom uncovers filth, fecal bacteria, in some fast food restaurant kiddie play areas.
- Widow says eating dead husband's ashes helps her cope.
- Man finds bloody bandaid in Pizza Hut crust.
- A snake crawls out from under the hood of a car traveling 65 mph down a highway.
- Man tries to remove a hernia by using a butter knife to cut himself open.
- Feces-stained man hid in portable toilet tank, escaped chase.
- San Francisco takes grasshopper tacos off the menu.
- Serena Chen finds beetle larvae in airline meal.
- Foreclosing on a bunch of snakes.
- Lefty's restaurant expects warmed-over welcome in Kinston.
Father and daughter in sexual relationship appear on Steve Wilkos show.
Hidden camera found in women's bathroom at Starbucks.
Alligator finds its way into woman's bathroom.
Woman freed from jaws of python by policeman.
Man dressed as mannequin found in mall toilet.
Man Finds Cockroach Embedded in Throat Lozenge
Man sues energy drink maker after mouse found in can.
Girl finds boa constrictor in toilet.
375-pound shark leaps into Texas fisherman's boat.
Shopper ingested semen-tainted yogurt sample.
Woman 'who wanted to be a grandmother hired man to rape her daughter'
Man admits mailing hundreds of tarantulas.
Colonoscopy reveals incredibly resilient insect.
Officials struggle to unravel tale of 5 children being raised in secrecy by woman and her uncle.
Victorian man Nick Le Souef to live with spiders for three weeks for charity.
- How many cockroaches would you hold in your mouth... for charity?
"Navel fluff" collection weighs a record 22 grams.
Toad-al shock: Couple find frog in bag of frozen veggies.
"Big Snake" comes home after month in nature.
Snake scare: Large python captured in Metroparks.
Man recoils after find: big snake in his home.
Sleeping boy bitten by snake living in family's wall.
Maggots were found in the eye socket of a man staying at a nursing home.
Kirkland woman accused of incest, sexual relationship with long-lost adult son.
Huntington Beach home overrun by rats from nearby landfill.
Family sues Wal-Mart over alleged mouse in milk.
A chef uses his tongue to season his frogs in this Japanese restaurant kitchen.
Kenneth Watson nearly blinded as maggot eats his eye.
Police: Man claims mom put feces on toothbrush.
Study: Cellphones dirtier than bathrooms.
"Death is very hard for me to take", Pa. widow, 91, found living with corpses of husband, twin.
Nicolas Cocaign, real-life Hannibal Lecter, sentenced to 30 years for brutal murder, cannibalism.
Black Widow spider found in Whole Foods grapes.
Snake in SUV's AC vent was no fraternal prank.
Man threw condoms filled with vomit!
An old school story from the 1864, a snake was discovered living in a woman's stomach.
Two arrested for serving monkey meatballs.
Toilet python surprises woman in hotel room.
Owner panics after his pyhton disappeared while staying at hotel.
Motel guest hit in face with snake.
Police did not check motel where missing woman was found dead.
Ants eat patient's eye while in a hospital bed.
"Shaming" her in-laws costs 19 year old her nose and ears.
Mother finds animal head in frozen veggies!
Man bites off snake's head LIVE on TV!
A man said he unwrapped an unwelcome surprise in a candy bar and it made his stomach turn! Read the story!
An 18-foot-long, 400-plus-pound Burmese python was living in a backyard feeding on rabbits now has a new home due to it's size.Read the story!
A diner at an upstate New York restaurant got a little something extra with his broccoli, a severed snake head. Read The Story!
Giant spiders invade Australian Outback town. Read the story!
Rats big enough to put saddles on are running amok in Harvard. Read the Story!
A sexual predator who is a manager at a motel was arrested and charged with video voyeurism after he allegedly secretly placed a camera in the floor to record people. Read The Story!
Domino's Pizza says there is a warrant out for the arrest of two fired North Carolina employees who videotaped themselves passing gas on salami and stuffing cheese up their nostrils. Read The Story!
A black widow was found hiding in grapes after buying them from the store. Read The Story!
A Costco shopper finds a black widow spider in her grapes. Read the Story!
A man finds mouse parts baked into hot dog buns in the package.Read the story!
Castaways lost at sea ate fellow passengers after being stranded.Read the Story!
A man has broken a record for putting 10 Madagascar hissing cockroaches in his mouth! Read the Story!
According to this study, your car is crawling with bacteria. Read the Story!
Chunks of whale carcus are washed ashore in New Jersey after whale demolition. Read the Story!
A woman gets a little extra jolt from morning coffee after a bat ended up in her coffee maker. Read the Story!
A woman in Main finds an 8-foot pything in washing machine! Read the Story!
A warning has been issued in New Jersey where serial drive by "brick throwing" is taking place! Read the Story!
Airport workers are on strike at LAX in Los Angeles because the airlines have a lack of equipment and understaffing to properly clean the airplanes! Read the Story!
A man in Virginia collected a house full of deadly, exotic snakes that were stacked neatly in clear plastic containers. Read The Story!
Employees at a Sonic fast food restaurant have been fired after spitting in customer's food! Read the Story!
A chain restaurant has been busted for storing their bread in the men's restroom! Read the Story!
While driving on a busy road, a power pole slides off of a moving truck and crushes multiple cars. Read the Story!
A woman went under anesthesia and was left behind and forgotten during a dental procedure! Read The Story!
A couple who moved into a colonial house in Massachusetts learn that their house may have been built on top of a dump. Read The Story!
This hospital in Australia was overrun by poisonous spiders and was forced to close! Read the Story!
After sitting down on a toilet, a disabled woman was bit in the ass by a rat! She tried drowning the rat with a plunger when more rats came out of the toilet! Read the story!
A woman had a 6-foot long snake living with her for 2 months before the snake exposed itself. The snake had been left behind from the previous tenant. Read the story!
A rattlesnake was found in a man's luggage after he reached in and was bit by a footlong rattlesnake! Read the Story!
This man, who is a grocer in some other country, has the longest ear hair in the world! Read the Story!
A cook has been accused of putting facial and pubic hair in the middle of a customer's steak: Read the Story!
A woman dining at a fast food restaurant in central Florida claims that she found the head and bottom of a frog in her food: Read the Story!
Burmese pythons are migrating from Florida towards the Bay Area!Read the Story!
Vietnamese eat rat as a regular meal, cooked on the streets by street vendors, recipes attached to the following link: Read the story!
A big rig went under an overpass and didn't fit, it toppled over onto an SUV, killing the driver instantly: Read the story!
A hospital attendant accidentally dropped a human tongue into another patients mouth: Read the Story!
This woman boarding a plane sits down in a urine-soaked seat from the previous flight: Read the story!
A logging truck loses some of its load, and a log rails through the passenger side of a driver following close behind: Read the story!
A couple punk teenagers pulled up to a Walgreens and threw a bag into the store filled with human shit, and it splattered on a pregnant woman: Read the story!
A cow fell off of a cliff and crashed ontop of a van driving on the nearby highway: Story
This Texas man sat in a tub with 87 rattlesnakes for 45 minutes: Story
A 7-foot-long python made it's way up the plumbing pipes to the toilet of a Brooklyn woman's home: Story
The police found these 2 kids in the back of a car covered in trash and cockroaches: Story
This 10 year old got run over twice by his cousins: Story
This Modesto family lived in a house with seven dogs and a horse... and lots of horse shit. Seriously: Story
Giant snakes on the loose in Pennsylvania: Story
A four foot long alligator was pulled out of the Sacramento River:Story
This guy found a snake head in his can of green beans: Story
Do you like your cheese with Maggots?? Then we've got the perfect cheese for you: Story
A giant pile of Shit saved a lady from her death: Story
This lady was blinded by an eye eating bacteria: Story
A giant bee hive housing 135,000 Africanized bees was removed from the walls of a town house: Story
Four workers fell into a fish tank that was drained for cleaning, submerged in more than 2-feet of fish waste: Story
A police officer found some sort of bodily mucous in his hamburger:Story
A man moons cars passing by on overpass. There's a catch, he was on medication which causes diarrhea, and he was trying to relieve himself off the overpass: Story
Pranksters working at a restaurant put a used condom in customers Iced Tea: Story
Florida is now the home of some cat-sized African rats: Story
A man pays parking ticket, and puts a little dog waste in the envelope for extra payment: Story
A New York couple has 3,500 pounds of Bat Droppings in their attic:Story
2 spiders nested in a 9-year-old boy's ear for over 2 weeks: Story
This guy is being charged with performing amateur dentistry in his dirty garage: Story
This lady had a sausage explode in her face (not as cool as it sounds): Story
This lady was found alive in her house under an enormous pile of her own garbage/filth: Story
This guy was having surgery to have his gall bladder taken out. The anesthesiologist screwed up. He was paralyzed and seemingly unconscious... but was awake the whole time and felt the whole thing. The patient went insane because of the incident and killed himself: Story #1: Story #2:
This lady stood up after her C-section operation... and her bowels fell out of the wound (wasn't stitched up properly by doctors): Story
Probably not healthy if you ever find this in your mouth: Story
This is why Dawn doesn't drive behind trucks carrying cargo: Story
The invasion of the rats: Story
If you are a responsible gun owner, stories like this will drive you nuts : Story
Wanna see a 24 foot python? Story
This girl found something in her cupboard (and it wasn't an Indian):Story
This little girl got choked by a corn snake at a pet expo: Story
This city sewer worker was sprayed with a fountain of blood while on the job: Story
This lady thought the stranger behind her at the book store was just an innocent guy trying to learn how to read. What happened next might be the nastiest thing you can imagine: Story
Found a news story that YOU think needs to be part of our "Things That Bother Dawn" feature? Click here and email us with a link to the story.