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SPIDER BITE!!!

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Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
Originally posted by: Stumps
do you guys get white tail spiders in the US?, one bite from them and you get to have your arm or leg rot off over the course of a few years, it's bite is generally on curable by surgery to remove the affected area, we get heaps of them over here, I usually kill 4 or 5 a day...bloody things
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Is there anything in Australia that can't kill you or rot an appendage off from just one bite?
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Well, there is this redhead down by Sydney . . . .
 
Originally posted by: junkerman123
haha, air rifle vs spider. awesome.
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it took 3 shoots before the bastard stopped moving, i did try fly spray first but that didn't even phase it
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Good God! These spider threads almost give me anxiety attacks. Especially when I go and google some of these things.
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dude..google white tail spider and have a look at the pics that have the bite on them...
 
Just to calm the heebee jeebies going on in this thread, 99% of spider's fangs are not strong enough, not to mention long enough, to go through human skin.
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Just to calm the heebee jeebies going on in this thread, 99% of spider's fangs are not strong enough, not to mention long enough, to go through human skin.
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the 1% live in Australia😀
 
Originally posted by: Stumps
Originally posted by: captains
Originally posted by: HDTVMan
Originally posted by: Stumps
spider suck, I have been biten by redbacks a few times...they hurt like a muthfvcker, I have had a Sydney funnelweb the size of my hand crawl across my bed and cause me to stain my undies.
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Arent they like the most poisonous spiders in the world?
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daddy long legs are the most poisonous..but they cant break the skin wif deer teef, so the are harmless to us...omg i remembered something from high school😀
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wrong, the mythbusters guy's tried this theory and proved it wrong, the venom from a daddy long legs is a really weak version of the black widow's venom, it causes a bit of itching but no real effects
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true, when i was young and i attended a lions camp. i picked up several daddy long legs and scare other campers. it was a good memory. 😀
 
I remember seeing on Animal Planet that some spider, can't remembe the name (probably one of the ones you mentioned, is responsible for thousands of cases each year. Usually involving youngsters, where the spiders re hiding amongst toys and other things.
 
Originally posted by: Rock Hydra
I remember seeing on Animal Planet that some spider, can't remembe the name (probably one of the ones you mentioned, is responsible for thousands of cases each year. Usually involving youngsters, where the spiders re hiding amongst toys and other things.
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yep, sound like the funnelweb, they come out when it rains to find a mate and because they are only found in sydney, they are very common in peoples backyard, the have a highly venomous cousin called the mouse spider, it's even more common and wider spread..and has longer fang upto one and half centimetres long...I really hate those ones.
 
Originally posted by: Stumps
Originally posted by: Rock Hydra
I remember seeing on Animal Planet that some spider, can't remembe the name (probably one of the ones you mentioned, is responsible for thousands of cases each year. Usually involving youngsters, where the spiders re hiding amongst toys and other things.
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yep, sound like the funnelweb, they come out when it rains to find a mate and because they are only found in sydney, they are very common in peoples backyard, the have a highly venomous cousin called the mouse spider, it's even more common and wider spread..and has longer fang upto one and half centimetres long...I really hate those ones.
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Yep, those are some nasty fangs!

 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Originally posted by: Stumps
yep, now imagine waking up one morning to find that staring at you
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Recipe for an instant heart attack in my case!
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hehe, or stained undies in mine, but aleast they arent brown snakes, I have seen those things take a lunge at cars that drive by them..and they have been known to put up chase..I know from experience
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Originally posted by: Stumps
Originally posted by: Rock Hydra
I remember seeing on Animal Planet that some spider, can't remembe the name (probably one of the ones you mentioned, is responsible for thousands of cases each year. Usually involving youngsters, where the spiders re hiding amongst toys and other things.
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yep, sound like the funnelweb, they come out when it rains to find a mate and because they are only found in sydney, they are very common in peoples backyard, the have a highly venomous cousin called the mouse spider, it's even more common and wider spread..and has longer fang upto one and half centimetres long...I really hate those ones.
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Yep, those are some nasty fangs!
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GAH!!!! That's what you get for living in the middle of WILD FREAKIN' KINGDOM!!!
 
Originally posted by: captains
Originally posted by: HDTVMan
Originally posted by: Stumps
spider suck, I have been biten by redbacks a few times...they hurt like a muthfvcker, I have had a Sydney funnelweb the size of my hand crawl across my bed and cause me to stain my undies.
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Arent they like the most poisonous spiders in the world?
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daddy long legs are the most poisonous..but they cant break the skin wif deer teef, so the are harmless to us...omg i remembered something from high school😀
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Another person let down by public education.
 
Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Originally posted by: captains
Originally posted by: HDTVMan
Originally posted by: Stumps
spider suck, I have been biten by redbacks a few times...they hurt like a muthfvcker, I have had a Sydney funnelweb the size of my hand crawl across my bed and cause me to stain my undies.
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Arent they like the most poisonous spiders in the world?
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daddy long legs are the most poisonous..but they cant break the skin wif deer teef, so the are harmless to us...omg i remembered something from high school😀
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Another person let down by public education.
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Yep, if he thinks daddy long legs are dangerous..maybe I should mail him a funnelweb to play with...or better yet a white tail...those things are tiny..not much bigger than a DLL, but fvck don't they pack a punch...a flesh eating one
 
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