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conjur

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Originally posted by: Millennium
I saw this thread... I didn't want to click but I did. You are all bastards. Everyone of you. Spiders scare me more than anything. If I saw a spider that big I would make a coat out of it or something. :(

That's why I asked you to do the research!

:D
 

Mill

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Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: Millennium
I saw this thread... I didn't want to click but I did. You are all bastards. Everyone of you. Spiders scare me more than anything. If I saw a spider that big I would make a coat out of it or something. :(

That's why I asked you to do the research!

:D

This thread being on the front page is giving me mental trauma. We need to quit bumping it.
 

AEB

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i hate spiders, the biggest one i saw was about 1/3 the size of that it was a wood spider, i live in alaska so we have like 2 species none tat big!
 

Cogman

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:) I would get a can of hair spray, and spray it till it stops moving, wait a day, then find a nice place to mount it on my wall. (BTW, if any of you want to have some fun, just get some hair spray, and spray some bugs, loads of fun watching them slowly stick to the wall and stop moving :))
 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: Millennium
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: Millennium
I saw this thread... I didn't want to click but I did. You are all bastards. Everyone of you. Spiders scare me more than anything. If I saw a spider that big I would make a coat out of it or something. :(

That's why I asked you to do the research!

:D

This thread being on the front page is giving me mental trauma. We need to quit bumping it.

me too!

oops! :eek:
 

Cougar

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Feb 26, 2000
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Dear Lord, that thing looks like it's bigger than my dog.

I don't like bugs to begin with so if I saw that thing in my room I would probably wet myself, then re-group and come up with a new strategy.

*shudder*
 

Insane3D

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May 24, 2000
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Originally posted by: styrafoam
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Eh. I would just put it in a container of some sort and release it outside...


It's just a spider folks... :)

Even though if given the chance that spider would sink it's fangs into your skull and turn your brain into a cerebellum flavored protien drink? You must be a Drow.

Oh...c'mon. It's big yes...but not THAT big. Yeah...it would jump on me and I would be totally incapacitated while it sunk it's fangs into my skull and drank my soon to be fluid brain.
rolleye.gif


Most spiders, except for a few, are nowhere near venomous to do much damage to a human.. I guarantee that spider would just try to avoid you as much has possible.
 

Spoooon

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Originally posted by: Insane3D
Originally posted by: styrafoam
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Eh. I would just put it in a container of some sort and release it outside...


It's just a spider folks... :)

Even though if given the chance that spider would sink it's fangs into your skull and turn your brain into a cerebellum flavored protien drink? You must be a Drow.

Oh...c'mon. It's big yes...but not THAT big. Yeah...it would jump on me and I would be totally incapacitated while it sunk it's fangs into my skull and drank my soon to be fluid brain.
rolleye.gif


Most spiders, except for a few, are nowhere near venomous to do much damage to a human.. I guarantee that spider would just try to avoid you as much has possible.

In my old neighborhood (yes, in Texas), once every year their would be tarantulas everywhere. It was like a scene out of a horror movie. House walls would have maybe 10 or 15 of them crawling around, they'd be in the streets, etc.

One time, my brother and I were messing around with some of them. Picking them up and letting them crawl on us and crap. There was this one, for some reason, it got mad and wanted nothing to do with it. I heard a hissing noise (which may or may not have been the tarantula) and saw it leap from the ground seemingly toward my face but it landed on my chest. I then screeched like a girl and brushed the thing off me and ran inside my house.

None of the ones I ever saw were that big. Though on occasion I've seen some while driving on the highway that could have been. It's got to be big if you can see it scooting across the highway while you're driving 70mph.
 

JoeKing

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Oct 9, 1999
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ewww ewww eeewww ewwww eeeeeewwww

*throws hands in the air and runs out the house screaming and pulling out hair


<==has been bitten by a black widow before.
 

DanTMWTMP

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Originally posted by: Spoooon
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Originally posted by: styrafoam
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Eh. I would just put it in a container of some sort and release it outside...


It's just a spider folks... :)

Even though if given the chance that spider would sink it's fangs into your skull and turn your brain into a cerebellum flavored protien drink? You must be a Drow.

Oh...c'mon. It's big yes...but not THAT big. Yeah...it would jump on me and I would be totally incapacitated while it sunk it's fangs into my skull and drank my soon to be fluid brain.
rolleye.gif


Most spiders, except for a few, are nowhere near venomous to do much damage to a human.. I guarantee that spider would just try to avoid you as much has possible.

In my old neighborhood (yes, in Texas), once every year their would be tarantulas everywhere. It was like a scene out of a horror movie. House walls would have maybe 10 or 15 of them crawling around, they'd be in the streets, etc.

One time, my brother and I were messing around with some of them. Picking them up and letting them crawl on us and crap. There was this one, for some reason, it got mad and wanted nothing to do with it. I heard a hissing noise (which may or may not have been the tarantula) and saw it leap from the ground seemingly toward my face but it landed on my chest. I then screeched like a girl and brushed the thing off me and ran inside my house.

None of the ones I ever saw were that big. Though on occasion I've seen some while driving on the highway that could have been. It's got to be big if you can see it scooting across the highway while you're driving 70mph.

damn ur giving me goose bumps...u freak :( :p

but damn

i vote this thread to be the most freakiest thread... :(

that spider is gonna give me a nightmare..man why make such a request uncjigga!! :(
 

LordThing

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Jun 8, 2001
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My God, I would be such a woman about that. Not sure if i would be able to even get close enough to it to capture or kill it. Then I would be paranoid for weeks wondering if it had babies or a big brother in the house.
 

idNut

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Jun 9, 2002
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Originally posted by: rgwalt
How do you kill something like that? You can't just grab it with a tissue... You have to st@b the MF.

Hahahaha.

That is the biggest spider I've ever seen, sure that isn't a toy or something?
 

amcdonald

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Feb 4, 2003
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If I saw one of those in my house I'd torture it to death with any aerosol product available just for being so freaky.
Did that come from the amazon?
My luck it would get away from me and I'd be spider-paranoid the rest of my life.
 

idNut

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Jun 9, 2002
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Originally posted by: Joeyman

<==has been bitten by a black widow before.


DAMN! :Q I've done numerous reports on the black widow, what were your symptoms?
 

OrByte

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Jul 21, 2000
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Originally posted by: Flatline
After being bitten by one, this is the spider that scares the sh!t out of me...

Brown Recluse


there was some pics floating around recently of a guy who got bit on his thumb and after like 10 days or so it looked like he needed his thumb amputated. It was seriously gross.

did you have to go thru the same experiance? I am wondering if such a nasty bite is common with the brown recluse or if his was just a horrbily fvcked up reaction to the venom.

I'm hoping that it was an uncommon reaction, his thumb was jacked up!
 

Flatline

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Jun 28, 2001
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It's actually the common reaction. I pulled through without much scarring because I'm a very quick healer (and I was on enough antibiotics to kill the Blob), but I lost about 70-80% of the skin on my foot and had incredible pain and sickness. Not recommended for a fun time.
 

Flatline

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Jun 28, 2001
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My toe looked quite a bit like that thumb actually, except it was darker. Maybe the lighting for the pics?
 

OrByte

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Jul 21, 2000
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omg I love my feet I wouldnt want anything like that to happen to my feet! :D

Brown Recluse are our friends!!

quoted from the article above:

Even where brown recluses do live, people overestimate their risk, Vetter said. In one recent case in Kansas, a family of four collected more than 2,000 brown recluse spiders in their house during a six-month period. The family found spiders on the paper towel rack, crawling up the stairs, and lurking in piles of laundry. "There were four people living in that house for six years," said Vetter, who wrote about the case in the November issue of the Journal of Medical Entomology. "Guess how many bites? None."


remind me to stay far away from Kansas.
 

Busie23

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Jan 24, 2001
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I'm definitely constructing my house out of an all steel exterior that is completely welded everywhere. Then there will be vacum seals at the door so know creatures like that can get in. I hate spiders and seriously would of had that house burned down if it was mine. I hope those people moved out.