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Boss+Manning=Banning
10-25-2008, 03:37 PM
Imagine living in Australia and going outside and seeing this... If I saw that I would buy a flame thrower and start going to town on this thing! Sad part is I have been to Cairns, Australia when I was in middle school. Thank god I never saw this or I would be been scarred emotionallly!

Giant spider snapped eating bird in backyard near Cairns
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24540399-5009760,00.html






http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6313710,00.jpg








Here is another story of how people don't want pythons and led them go in the Everglades in Florida, and they throw up and try to fight alligators! lol. This picture shows a pyton ingesting an alligator, and the alligator must have been fighting because it tore the python from the inside.


Gator-guzzling python comes to messy end
Incident heightens biologists' fears about Everglades ecosystem

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9600151/







http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/051005/051005_python_hmed_11a.hmedium.jpg
Aftermath
10-25-2008, 03:44 PM
I would **** my pants and faint if i seen that.....
SuperKevin
10-25-2008, 03:47 PM
http://blogs4brownback.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/camel_spider_sm.jpg

Camel Spiders. The real reason the War in Iraq is still going on.
Brent
10-25-2008, 03:56 PM
arent those deadly to humans, Kevin?
SuperKevin
10-25-2008, 04:02 PM
arent those deadly to humans, Kevin?

Not at all. They don't have poison. They essentially paralyze their prey and then have an all you can eat buffet. I've known some guys who have woke up in the morning to see a camel spider chewing a chunk out of their leg.
VoodooMonkey
10-25-2008, 04:32 PM
Spiders are my ultimate fear. I turn girly around them. If I saw that first spider eating the bird or a camel spider, or any spider even close to that size you best believe I'd set the world record for fastest mile running away from those things.
Turtlepower
10-25-2008, 04:32 PM
Not at all. They don't have poison. They essentially paralyze their prey and then have an all you can eat buffet. I've known some guys who have woke up in the morning to see a camel spider chewing a chunk out of their leg.

Dude, that sucks. You should've microwaved one of them.
Go_Eagles77
10-25-2008, 04:40 PM
I have nightmares of seeing those things in my bed, than when I wake up I can't fall back to sleep. lol.
SuperKevin
10-25-2008, 04:41 PM
Dude, that sucks. You should've microwaved one of them.

My buddy caught one and put it in a death cage match with a scorpion. The scorpion didn't stand a chance
P-L
10-25-2008, 04:55 PM
I don't mind spiders, but those spiders are too much for me. Jesus those things are scary.
619
10-25-2008, 04:58 PM
SK, I don't know how you guys dealt with those creepers. OMG.
renegade
10-25-2008, 05:07 PM
If I saw that I think I might call 911 and then run like I've never run before.
Xonraider
10-25-2008, 05:14 PM
Am I missing something about SK and him dealing with those... ''animals''?
Splat
10-25-2008, 05:18 PM
Spiders suck.
Bills2083
10-25-2008, 05:22 PM
Am I missing something about SK and him dealing with those... ''animals''?


SK fought in the war and saw some of those creatures while fighting.
Paul
10-25-2008, 05:24 PM
http://blogs4brownback.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/camel_spider_sm.jpg

Camel Spiders. The real reason the War in Iraq is still going on.

http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/071031/071031_starship_hmed_1p.hmedium.jpg

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Turtlepower
10-25-2008, 06:09 PM
My buddy caught one and put it in a death cage match with a scorpion. The scorpion didn't stand a chance

Youtube that ****!
Gay Ork Wang
10-25-2008, 06:11 PM
Insects and Spiders are the ****
doingthisinsteadofwork
10-25-2008, 06:19 PM
Youtube that ****!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQQp6viOTKc
Brent
10-25-2008, 06:40 PM
I hate spiders...
VoodooMonkey
10-25-2008, 06:42 PM
I just crapped my pants....
TitleTown088
10-25-2008, 06:44 PM
Not at all. They don't have poison. They essentially paralyze their prey and then have an all you can eat buffet. I've known some guys who have woke up in the morning to see a camel spider chewing a chunk out of their leg.

More scary donkey lips: IED or Camel Spider?
ATLDirtyBirds
10-25-2008, 06:47 PM
Not a big spiders guy myself. Can't say I'm too bad though. I'd imagine it'd be cool as hell to fight those things though.
Go_Eagles77
10-25-2008, 06:48 PM
Could have done without that last pic. lol.
d34ng3l021
10-25-2008, 07:10 PM
I hate big spiders. I am okay with small sized ones, but anything bigger than that, I am terrified of its every movement. Its nice to know you can brutally outpower the spider, but still.
VoodooMonkey
10-25-2008, 07:13 PM
I hate big spiders. I am okay with small sized ones, but anything bigger than that, I am terrified of its every movement. Its nice to know you can brutally outpower the spider, but still.

I'm not. They're too well hidden. Not to mention the fact that the smaller ones are usually more poisonous.
d34ng3l021
10-25-2008, 07:17 PM
I feel more powerful in front of the smaller ones.

I was biking the other day and these was this gigantic spider on the bike path. Its body was about the size of a fist. and it was yellow and black. I looked down cause I was about to run something over when I saw it. Nearly fell off after my cognitive process figured out what it was.
BamaFalcon59
10-25-2008, 07:29 PM
Spiders are my ultimate fear. I turn girly around them. If I saw that first spider eating the bird or a camel spider, or any spider even close to that size you best believe I'd set the world record for fastest mile running away from those things.

I would run faster. And longer.
Caddy
10-25-2008, 07:40 PM
I've only seen a spider out here that big once before. It was sitting on my back door so I walked around the house to open the door from outside to lure the spider out, then I promptly beat the **** out of it with a shoe.
renegade
10-25-2008, 07:45 PM
http://tools.cairns.com.au/images/gallery/2008/10/23/117811.jpg

http://tools.cairns.com.au/images/gallery/2008/10/23/117821.jpg

I don't think I would be able to run, I think I would become paralyzed with fear and faint. I get chills just looking at the pictures.
BamaFalcon59
10-25-2008, 07:46 PM
I would have a gun, not a shoe, if I saw a spider that big.
Brent
10-25-2008, 07:48 PM
http://tools.cairns.com.au/images/gallery/2008/10/23/117811.jpg

http://tools.cairns.com.au/images/gallery/2008/10/23/117821.jpg

I don't think I would be able to run, I think I would become paralyzed with fear and faint. I get chills just looking at the pictures.
screw calling pest control, I am calling animal services
Caddy
10-25-2008, 07:48 PM
I would have a gun, not a shoe, if I saw a spider that big.

I've seen my fair share of spiders/snakes so I guess I'm slightly acclimatised to them. I certainly would rather avoid them, but if they are in your house or in your back yard where they can hurt your pets then you have to do something.
giantsfan
10-25-2008, 07:49 PM
Spiders are my ultimate fear. I turn girly around them. If I saw that first spider eating the bird or a camel spider, or any spider even close to that size you best believe I'd set the world record for fastest mile running away from those things.

I've had arachnophobia since I was a kid, still become girl around a lot of spiders. I've never seen anything as big as a camel spider or that bird eater so i don't know how i'd react, although I actually doing mind tarantulas because they're furry and so big that I don't even register them as spiders. I tend to freeze up and arm myself whenever I spot a spider and keep constant track of it so in case it nears me I'll be ready to kill it and that's after years of training myself I used to just get pretty much paralyzed with fear for a few minutes if a saw a spider with a diameter of an inch or bigger (including the legs)
giantsfan
10-25-2008, 07:50 PM
I'm not. They're too well hidden. Not to mention the fact that the smaller ones are usually more poisonous.

Exactly why Tarantulas are like the only spiders that don't creep me out.
giantsfan
10-25-2008, 07:53 PM
http://tools.cairns.com.au/images/gallery/2008/10/23/117811.jpg

http://tools.cairns.com.au/images/gallery/2008/10/23/117821.jpg

I don't think I would be able to run, I think I would become paralyzed with fear and faint. I get chills just looking at the pictures.

If I ever saw one of those I couldn't see myself coming within 2 feet of it, I'd probably grab something much longer than a shoe with which to kill it.
giantsfan
10-25-2008, 07:57 PM
I've seen my fair share of spiders/snakes so I guess I'm slightly acclimatised to them. I certainly would rather avoid them, but if they are in your house or in your back yard where they can hurt your pets then you have to do something.

note to self: amass large gun collection prior to ever moving down under.

Just the idea of one of those ever being in my yard terrifies me. Especially because I love the night time and growing up our yard had these wooded areas around because my neighbors were loaded on both sides and I'd go out walking through the neighborhood sticking to the woods, I don't think I'd be able to walk out of my house to have a cigarette without a at least a handgun with a flashlight attached to it if I thought one of those things might be out there.
Paul
10-25-2008, 08:13 PM
Just out of curiosity, I Googled "Spider bite", just to see what it would look like... bad idea. The very first result was horrifying.
Caddy
10-25-2008, 08:17 PM
note to self: amass large gun collection prior to ever moving down under.

Just the idea of one of those ever being in my yard terrifies me. Especially because I love the night time and growing up our yard had these wooded areas around because my neighbors were loaded on both sides and I'd go out walking through the neighborhood sticking to the woods, I don't think I'd be able to walk out of my house to have a cigarette without a at least a handgun with a flashlight attached to it if I thought one of those things might be out there.

If you live in a highly metropolitan area you will be fine. I've been living in the heart of Sydney for a while now and I don't think I've even seen a fly the last 3 months. It's only when you go out a little further you occasionally encounter the bad guys like red back spiders, huge ass huntsman and the occasional snake.
CroomDawgs
10-25-2008, 08:46 PM
http://tools.cairns.com.au/images/gallery/2008/10/23/117811.jpg

http://tools.cairns.com.au/images/gallery/2008/10/23/117821.jpg

I don't think I would be able to run, I think I would become paralyzed with fear and faint. I get chills just looking at the pictures.

Holy mother of god, If i saw that thing i'm taken a shotty and blowing that thing to kingdom come.
giantsfan
10-25-2008, 08:47 PM
If you live in a highly metropolitan area you will be fine. I've been living in the heart of Sydney for a while now and I don't think I've even seen a fly the last 3 months. It's only when you go out a little further you occasionally encounter the bad guys like red back spiders, huge ass huntsman and the occasional snake.

No offense to sydney, can't wait to visit that city and I've heard good things and liked the natives I've met in my life, but if I moved to australia it'd be to some ranch when I retire to have just gorgeous landscape around me every day, if I don't end up in New Mexico that is.
SuperKevin
10-25-2008, 08:50 PM
No offense to sydney, can't wait to visit that city and I've heard good things and liked the natives I've met in my life, but if I moved to australia it'd be to some ranch when I retire to have just gorgeous landscape around me every day, if I don't end up in New Mexico that is.

New Mexico is beautiful. Albuquerque is the prettiest city I've ever been to
MichaelJordanEberle (sabf)
10-25-2008, 09:51 PM
Holy **** that is scary. I'd die if I saw that. I'm terrified of spiders. And roaches. When I was in the Dominican Republic on a school trip, our group lived in people's houses with them. And at night, the roaches came out. First time I saw them, I was PARALYZED with fear.
giantsfan
10-25-2008, 10:27 PM
New Mexico is beautiful. Albuquerque is the prettiest city I've ever been to

Perfer Sante Fe and Taos cause they're further north and more in the mountains. Plus Taos is my favorite Ski resort in this country.
CJSchneider
10-26-2008, 12:05 AM
I ******* hate snakes and spiders.
619
10-26-2008, 12:07 AM
I ******* hate snakes and spiders.

This thread is not for you.

http://www.adamspestcontrol.com/pestid/Jumping%20Spider.jpg
Caddy
10-26-2008, 12:07 AM
I ******* hate snakes and spiders.

Snakes and spiders are alright, it is sharks that I'm more scared of for some reason.
SuperKevin
10-26-2008, 12:08 AM
Snakes and spiders are alright, it is sharks that I'm more scared of for some reason.

Odd. I figured you'd be more afraid of stingrays
CJSchneider
10-26-2008, 12:09 AM
Let me rephrase that, snakes 10 + feet long and spiders that can attack and kill birds, I ******* hate.
Caddy
10-26-2008, 12:14 AM
Odd. I figured you'd be more afraid of stingrays

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2006/10/toonirwinSPL_350x450.jpg

Just a little..
Brent
10-26-2008, 12:33 AM
it is sharks that I'm more scared of
do you surf?
Caddy
10-26-2008, 01:46 AM
do you surf?

Occasionally. Not so much now that I live in the city but I did a bit when I live up the coast. Most of the sharks that are around the coast are pretty timid and you won't usually see them, but if you do it is incredibly scary. Particularly because Australian waters house pretty much all of the man-eaters ie Tiger, Great White, Bull etc.