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Justin Schmidt has allowed himself to be stung 150 times… for science!
Over at the Daily Mail, he ranks his 10 most painful stings. Ranging from the expected, such as the honey bee and fire ant, to the exotic, Schmidt ranks and describes his most memorable stings. He had this to say about a yellow jacket sting, ranked at 2.0 out of 4.0: “Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.”
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Justin Schmidt has allowed himself to be stung 150 times… for science!

Over at the Daily Mail, he ranks his 10 most painful stings. Ranging from the expected, such as the honey bee and fire ant, to the exotic, Schmidt ranks and describes his most memorable stings. He had this to say about a yellow jacket sting, ranked at 2.0 out of 4.0: “Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.”

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    I had heard of the Schmidt Pain Index (one of the first things I learned about bullet ants was that their sting marks...
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    Who the FUCK does that?
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    The King of Stings, of course, is the Bullet Ant. The South American Satere-Mawe tribe, in the Amazonian rainforest,...
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    I freak out whenever I see a yellow jacket. They’re too bad ass.
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