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Old 04-03-2008, 06:04 AM
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I was sitting next to one on one camping trip a long time ago, being chicken shit scared of spiders, I normally panicked like crazy that night
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Wow...wouldnt want to wake up to one of those in my sleeping bag....
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Originally Posted by dr.dirty
we used to catch them in afgan all the time some the size small plate
Oh man, I'm glad the 2 we saw weren't that big... I guess they only come out at night when they are really hungry and they eat like crazy. Apparently, whatever they eat stays in them a while and makes them huge until they have digested.

Originally Posted by DFW Rusty
Ya, you can see like 50 youtube videos of them fighting other insects & lizards! I am not a big fan of spiders, I really think that I would golf club the hell out of one them if I saw one near me! I can't remember really well, but they are actually not even a spider, I think. I think they are actually apart of the scorpion family(I think).
Yeah, the youtube vids are crazy. They are actually not a spider or a scorpion, but they are part of the Arachnid family. I flung it off the tent with my front license plate!
Old 04-03-2008, 08:27 AM
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Exclamation Gads!

That thing is nasty looking.

I don't really have a fear of spiders, but that thing would send me running and screaming like a banshee!
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Spiders don't usually get to me. Unless they are in the house it's a live and let live situation, but THAT thing in the picture underneath....

That would freak the crap out of me. I can handle spiders that look like spiders, but that thing looks like the devil with 8 legs.


Originally Posted by Mark Doiron

(image from Wikipedia):



The body can be about 3-1/2" long.
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damn that looks borderline scorpion
Old 04-03-2008, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by HappyCurmudgeon

As long as it keeps to it's own i'm fine with it, but if it sneaks up on me, or gets into my personal area, it's existance would come to an abrupt, immediate, and brutal end...

...pasted to the bottom of my boot.
I can't lift my leg up that high in my house. (I usually find them on the walls or eves of my house)

...A piece of TP and a ride to my septic tank works here.
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Originally Posted by Dizzyliz
I can't lift my leg up that high in my house. (I usually find them on the walls or eves of my house)

...A piece of TP and a ride to my septic tank works here.


ahhh, need to study Ti-Kwan Leep young Gruberman...
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Originally Posted by SGT. EVIL
Wow...wouldnt want to wake up to one of those in my sleeping bag....
This is the one that scare the shit out of me.

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Originally Posted by Dizzyliz
I can't lift my leg up that high in my house.
Ummm... Uh.... Yeeeaaahhh... I'm just gonna leave that one alone.


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