holy crap! what kind of spider is this?

[straycat]

South east Asia has some big ass spiders that like to crawl up your pant leg while you're trying to hide from Charlie.We called them Caddilac spiders because they were about that big!

[lerxstcat]

Wait. They're not dangerous, but they'll chase you around your house?
If they're not dangerous why would anyone run away? Unless they're like me and the very sight or even thought of a big spider makes me cry.

Well, they're not dangerous in that their bite won't kill you, but it would hurt like hell and you don't want that!

[SEEGERMANY]

Back in the early 1990s, I was doing some pipeline inspection in North Arkansas around Russellville. I was taking a break with a co-worker and we sat down on a rock ledge looking out over the right-of-way. Over the course of about 30 minutes, I bet we saw 10-15 tarantulas that looked identical in size. They looked to be about the size of a golf ball. I had no clue that they could survive the cold winters, but apparently they can.

[Annah]

Awwww! You've made it's mate a widow! Get it? WIDOW? HAHAHAHAH! LOL

If you guys ever heard of the band Icon, one of the guitarists, Dan Wexler whom I knew back in the 80's, got bitten by a Brown Recluse recently. Icon and a number of other bands were going to play a big show next week, but I guess Icon's out for now. Those are pretty nasty, from what I've seen.

[Spivonious]

Just looking at that clock picture gives me the creeps

[shadowcat]

Gotta love this pic:

I saw that last pic as a motivational poster once... the caption was something like "Welcome to Australia - where spiders are so big they have health bars"...

The first one too, but I forgot the caption... something about curiosity.

[Rsmacker]

South east Asia has some big ass spiders that like to crawl up your pant leg while you're trying to hide from Charlie.We called them Caddilac spiders because they were about that big!

Charlie would have no problem finding me, I'd be the one screaming and crashing about in a panic. I would not be able to let a big (or little, come to that) spider crawl up my leg. I'd have to do a Rambo and take on the whole NVA single-handed rather than hide quietly while that happened.

I saw a program once where one of those fucking huge Australian things fell out from behind a car sun visor onto the driver's face. I have no idea what happened after that, my tea tray went flying as I jumped 7' into the air from a sitting position. No fucking way am I going to Oz, even if I could overcome the fear of VitG's Wolf Creek Theme Park, spiders are a deal breaker for me.

Oh, and Wilksy-baby, who says there aren't big spiders over here? (Not making any jokes about big hairy things full of venom, no, not me) What about the Chilean tarantula in some Sainsburys grapes last week? Apparently the petshop said they get calls every couple of months about little visitors in fruit consignments, and that's just one small part of the country.
I know I have been veeeeery careful opening the crates of Mangoes I've been getting in, just in case there's any hostiles inside.

Check this out, my little gimp, but have no fear, I'll hold you :

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/Tarantula-on-the-loose.4084405.jp

[Jack Napalm]

When I was overseas in the shit hole we call the middle east we used look for creepy crawly things. It was a game we would play on unsuspecting Marines to see if we could get each other to squeal like a little girls. I never squealed but they got me good one day putting some nasty looking spider on me. I never knew what kind it was but it was big and ugly.

[wilkinsi]

Rsrimmer you goof, there's no actual photo..

[Maximum_Crunch]

Those things come in my house all the time. I usually just ignore them unless my wife starts screaming about them. The smaller ones i will pickup barehanded and pitch em outside. Larger ones i'll scoop up with a magazine or something. I don't mind them because i haven't ever been bitten by them and maybe they will kill a black widow in hiding or a irritating cricket that stops making it's noise as soon as i turn on the light to find it.

[StukaJU87]

If I went to check the time and saw this, I'd shit myself.........then, I'd have a hard time picking between a hammer or the 870.

[EDIT] ...and no, I wouldn't have the balls to move the clock. The clock and wall would be collateral damage.

[VitaminG]

I saw a program once where one of those fucking huge Australian things fell out from behind a car sun visor onto the driver's face. I have no idea what happened after that, my tea tray went flying as I jumped 7' into the air from a sitting position. No fucking way am I going to Oz, even if I could overcome the fear of VitG's Wolf Creek Theme Park, spiders are a deal breaker for me.

I've never had one drop onto my face, but have been merrily driving along when I've noticed one resting on the A pillar or the sunvisor. I'm not much of a squealer, but by the time I've had my silent panic & thrown the car into a spin and pull screeching up to the curb, the little buggers usually disappeared up under the dash board or squeezed out through the door seal. The little fuckers can squeeze through the most ridiculously small gaps.

If I went to check the time and saw this, I'd shit myself.........then, I'd have a hard time picking between a hammer or the 870.

[EDIT] ...and no, I wouldn't have the balls to move the clock. The clock and wall would be collateral damage.

Fortunately, as big as they might get, they aren't deadly. So worst you'll get is a bit of swelling and irritation where they bite you. Maybe you'll feel a bit sick. And they're not particularly aggressive, which is why if a lot of folks see them living in the top far corner of a room, they'll happily leave them there to keep the bugs down.

[m2pmd70]

Gotta love this pic:

Didn't that thing have a role in those Aliens movies? Eek.

[OnlineStageGear]

Can we get a few more people to quote the clock pics? I only saw it like 8 times scrolling down through this thread

[bibz]

My aunt had a bad experience with a huntsman in the car, she pulled out of her drive, got up to speed, went to pull the sunvisor down and it dropped onto her, she paniced and shook it off but went into a 60km/35mph head on collision because of it. Broken ribs brain damage all that good stuff. On my sisters birthday no less! She recovered ok though.