[deL]

The wee ones will prob die without the mum now anyway seeing as they were still hitching a ride.

[Celldweller]

IT BEGINS..

i for one welcome your new spider overlords

[rezyn8]

I saw out of the corner of my eye a huge black spider crawling along my desk while in the middle of a game last night - freaked me out - though it was whitetail but was a house spider - bigger than a 50c piece!

Don't know what the other guy was thinking when I paused the game twice and frantically typed "SPIDER".

Needless to say I lost my mind and the game after it disappeared. Found it after the game near my feet and gave a good Aussie boot thrashing.

[TAEdarus]

<----- farking hates spiders.

Totally living in the wrong country.
But hey, I guess running into a spider face-first down the hallway in the dark as a 6 year old has that affect on people...

[Apth]

Originally Posted by TAEdarus

But hey, I guess running into a spider face-first down the hallway in the dark as a 6 year old has that affect on people...

I watched a documentary on bird-eating tarantulas when I was around 7. I have never been to Australia.

[TAXanT]

I prefer capturing it and letting it outside if I can, the plastic cases on the top of blank cd spindles are actually a really easy way to get them. However if they are in a tricky position that doesn't allow me to get to them and take them outside... they die.

[inFeZa]

why is this a thread?!

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	Maynarde:	Good question
	mGGNemesis:	Good question but it sure made my day reading it. :) lolz

[iM yang]

there was something black covering my door handle and being the blind sonaovabitch i am, i decided to investigate. turns out it moves and it moves quickly, i jumped on the nearest chair and squealed like a girl and then it ran outside..

never underestimate squealing.

[VoxMSI.Rogue]

Originally Posted by SQLTt.yang

there was something black covering my door handle and being the blind sonaovabitch i am, i decided to investigate. turns out it moves and it moves quickly, i jumped on the nearest chair and squealed like a girl and then it ran outside..

never underestimate squealing.

hahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaha

yang you manly man

[faithHunter]

Man up and spray your room with bug spray.

[PiG]

Haha one time i was in the shower and I realised there was an odd shadow across the lighting in the room, glancing up to investigate i realised there was a big mofo of a spider ON the light, DIRECTLY above me. "OH SHIT! Ok, don't worry, it's not going to drop on you, just finish showering and it'll just sit there, it's just as scared of you as you are of it"

Of course 10 seconds later it DROPS ON ME. WTF SUICIDAL SPIDER. I have never destroyed a shower door so quickly and ran screaming. Traumatising, ya know?

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ToRDeathsFang:

I'm actually LMFAO'ING 5 minutes after i read this

[TARane]

solution to your problem at around 2:40

glhf

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[ToRDjvillian]

I put my right shoe on and felt something weird so I quickly removed the shoe and stepped away, Then out fell a massive black spider which I had squished when putting the shoe on. Never have I been more freaked out about spiders.

[ToRDeathsFang]

Interesting how this thread has turned into "Who's got the creepiest arachnid experience?"

Mother dear asked me to take some junk we had in 2 barrels in our backyard to throw away. So, like a good momma's boy i obey and start to remove the crap. While i had my hand in there deep, i felt something crawling on my hand, weird. As i pull my hand out, i see it is a fair-sized spider with a red line on its back. Hmm, RED LINE OH F*CK RED-BACK SPIDER!!!$%^#$^@$#%^#$%^?@#$%@ I then decided to swing my arm so hard the spider squished on the wall of my house. When mother dear came out she saw the remains of an arachnid on my hand and the wall.

Now whenever i step on something small i think it's a spider.

[deL]

I am the spider whisperer never had bad runins with them despite spending most of my childhood seeking them out in the garden and catching them :P

Wasps on the other hand...

[Asrathiel]

Originally Posted by TAdeL

I am the spider whisperer never had bad runins with them despite spending most of my childhood seeking them out in the garden and catching them :P

Yeah I can't remember a bad spider experience either, and I like catching them too... also caught a few scorpions, they were cool, and a little snake one time.

Never been stung by a wasp, and despite playing with bees all the time, have only ever been stung once, and that was because a bee I'd rescued from a pool was on my arm, drying out, and Zara came and put her hand right where the poor bee was. Happy it stung me and not her.

[deL]

Originally Posted by Asrathiel

Yeah I can't remember a bad spider experience either, and I like catching them too... also caught a few scorpions, they were cool, and a little snake one time.

Never been stung by a wasp, and despite playing with bees all the time, have only ever been stung once, and that was because a bee I'd rescued from a pool was on my arm, drying out, and Zara came and put her hand right where the poor bee was. Happy it stung me and not her.

Haha yeah I remember catching scorpions too, there are some big ones in Tasmania! Wouldn't have guessed. Yeah bees are usually friendly I like them - though that might just be because they die if they sting you, pretty good reason to be nice.

I have an impressive list of stinging insect encounters. I've stepped on bees at the pool a bunch of times, I've ran face-first in to a paperwasp nest and got stung over my scalp and neck (lucky not my eyes), I've been throwing rocks at a tree and turned around to realise that when I cocked my hand back to throw I hit a paperwasp nest haha, I had a wasp go down my shirt as I jumped in the pool and it stung me while I was under water, I had a hornet sting my leg at a school track and field day and my leg went numb when I was in a running race, etc. etc.

Also when we lived in Queensland there were a bunch of large jack jumper or bullant nests around so I have a bunch of stings from those little bastards.

Never had snake problems, pretty scared of snakes after living in Townsville near a dried creek bed where death adders and red belly black snakes were (we found them dead on the driveway - presents from the cat) and in Queensland finding myself about a metre away from a taipan.

[Rockstar]

I stood on a 6 foot snake the other week... I was carrying an esky at night, over to the lakes edge.. saw a big thick stick on the ground and cos the esky was filled with beer, just decided to wear it rather than step over it or cut my stride short... just as my foot hits the stick my mate who's behind me swings the torch around just in time to illuminate the 6 foot snake :-O scared teh living shit out of me. I didn't know what type of snake it was until i got back to the car to get the torch off my mate who'd done the bolt lol.. Turns out it was a carpet.. In my mind I was convinced it was a brown lol.

He was worse, has a phobia of snakes... Locked his ass in the car and didn't leave it teh rest of the night hahaha.

Anyway the spider story... My girlfriend gives me heaps of shit because I never kill them and always relocate them... Anyway about 6 months ago my relocation attempt on a giant huntsman failed and ended with me spending 3 hours trying to track the bastard down in my room... Eventually I ended up finding him on the back of a bookcase completely out of reach and the bookcase went to the roof which makes it extremely difficult to move without 2 people.. I sprayed him.... I felt bad afterwards cos he truly was a worthy adversary...

However after this incident and the 1000 extra spiders I'm probably going to have to deal with at some stage.. I think relocation may be back on the books or maybe just go straight for the spray an not the squish...

[Rage]

One night the wife and I (girlfriend at the time) were chilling in the house. I was laddering, she was sitting on the couch playing with the ipad. The couch is right next to the curtains in our house, and where I sit at my PC I can see over my monitor to the couch and curtains. After a game ended I happened to glance over and see a giant spider sitting on the curtains. I pointed it out to her and I don't think I've ever seen her move so fast.

I cracked up for a good 5 mins.

This is a story a friend of mine wrote on the Penny Arcade forums about his encounter with a scorpion.

I woke up once with a scorpion in my bed.

I woke up and ran my hand across something. I was in a sleepy daze and confused as to what it was, thinking it may be one of my dog's toys that I was unfamiliar with. I then gazed upon the black beast, the scorpion. I grabbed one of my dog's chew bones and I slammed down on the scorpion. Thinking it dead, I lifted my weapon and checked to see if it was real or a dream.

It was a nightmare, its tail wrapped in a mortal coil, black heart still beating.

The beast was not slain.

It scurried off, desperate to find shelter, uncoiled tail lashing black death at its unseen attacker. I knew I had to strike again, failure here meant a spurned beast yearning for vengeance beneath my hearth and home. Never again would sweet sleep carass me gently into the night while this abomination lurked in the shadows.

STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! Still it moved! STRIKE! Still but not dazed, it scurries more! STRIKE! Its impenetrable shell curses my every move, the black obsidan absorbing each blow into its dark abyss. Its freedom, my doom, lay inches before it. In an act of desperation I lunged, all of my might flowing through the chew-bone, and I pressed forth on the black demon.

I put all of my power, the weight of the world, into breaking the blackened armor of the beast. I held still, never relenting the force, keeping constant, crushing power and holding my entire weight on top of the bone.

*snap*

The armor had broken.

The needle tail lay still.

The beast did not stir.

I was victorious.

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