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An Australian man was forced to seek medical help after an inch-long cockroach burrowed into his ear while he was sleeping. Hendrik Helmer said he was awakened by a sharp earache, and tried to suck out the intruder with a vacuum cleaner. When that strategy failed, he rushed to the hospital, where doctors yanked out the cockroach with forceps. “They said they’d never pulled an insect this large out of someone’s ear,” he said.