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Holy crap...we had a spider almost exactly like that in our apartment last summer. It was maybe a little smaller though, its hard to tell with it spread out like that. It was in the bathroom, I heard my girlfriend scream. She says there's a huge spider in there, I'm thinking "Right, usually her huge spiders are just average sized daddy long legs" When I went in there and saw it I about crapped my pants.
I'm not usually afraid of spiders...but that thing was a monster. I thought about sending our cat after it, but then I thought it might get the better of my cat. So I sprayed a boatload of that ant raid all over it, I mean like a TON of it. You know, just in case. Then I flushed it down the toilet.