I support that this happens and it has happened to me. I don't think that the bristleworm makes deliberate contact with the fish...just that certain fish have habits that put them in the same place at the same time.
In my case, I had a red-head blenny that spent much of it's time inside holes in my LR. Over the many years I had him, he would frequently have bristle worm spines sticking out of his head and sometimes out of his eyes. I never attempted to remove them and they didn't seem to cause any long term damage.
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400 gal reef. Established April, 2007. 3 Sequence Dart, RM12-4 skimmer, 2 x OM4Ways, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown (pair), Blonde Naso Tang, Vlamingi Tang, Foxface Rabbit, Unicorn Tang, 2 Pakistani Butterflies and a few coral gobies
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