Arachnophobia

[red321]

http://abc7chicago.com/science/this-giant-puppy-sized-spider-will-haunt-your-dreams/358189/#gallery-1

 

Umm...hell ****ing no

 

As Naskrecki describes his encounter with the spider, it truly comes across as the stuff of nightmares. "The spider would start rubbing its hind legs against the hairy abdomen. 'Oh, how cute!', I thought when I first saw this adorable behavior, until a cloud of urticating hair hit my eyeballs, and made me itch and cry for several days." The entomologist goes into further detail saying the spider was "capable of puncturing a mouse's skull, and would try to jab me with the pointy implements," and that it produced a large hissing sound.

 

 

 

[Stradling]

Yea that thing can **** off.

[Glen]

I have no problem with spiders the size of my finger or below.  Bigger than that, though...no.

[red321]

On the plus side...I now know a new term...urticating hair (which is more than I can say for my spell checker)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urticating_hair

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Wikipedia

Urticating hairs or urticating bristles, i.e. irritating hairs, are one of the primary defense mechanisms used by numerous plants, some New World tarantulas

[arch stanton]

Meh. My Filipina wife could still kill it with a slipper without even spilling her mango juice.

[AngelsLongBall]

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

[nate]

I saw a funny comment on Twitter recently that I totally agreed with.  Something like "I don't understand how humans can focus so much energy on hating other humans when spiders still exist"

[Stradling]

I would hit it with my driver. Knowing my luck I would look up at the last second, barely knick the top of it, then it will jump on my face and have sex with my eye.

[mrwicked]

im gonna catch it in my coat...

and smack it with my hammer.

 

[red321]

I would hit it with my driver. Knowing my luck I would look up at the last second, barely knick the top of it, then it will jump on my face and have sex with my eye.

 

this may be my favorite post ever

[mtangelsfan]

I would hit it with my driver. Knowing my luck I would look up at the last second, barely knick the top of it, then it will jump on my face and have sex with my eye.

 

[gotbeer]

 

Just got to make sure that thing doesn't come to the US and mate and create the super species.

[Glen]

I would hit it with my driver. Knowing my luck I would look up at the last second, barely knick the top of it, then it will jump on my face and have sex with my eye.

 

 

[Adam]

 

lol

[ten ocho recon scout]

im gonna catch it in my coat...

and smack it with my hammer.

where the hell' eddie, doesnt he eat these things?

[wopphil]

I camped in Brea last weekend at the Scout Camp facility. Saw 5 or 6 different tarantulas. Had no idea we had them in Orange County.

[IEAngelsfan]

I can honestly and unashamedly admit I would scream like a 14 year old girl if that thing got within 3 ft. of me.

[tdawg87]

Can I unbirth myself?

[Kevin]

And now I'm pretty sure there is no God.

Edited October 28, 2015 by Kevin

[Docwaukee]

I would chop off my foot and give it to that thing to distract it then hobble away bleeding and screaming like Kelvim Escobar's prison bitch.  

[gotbeer]

I can honestly and unashamedly admit I would scream like a 14 year old girl if that thing got within 3 ft. of me.

 

 

I would run too if it got within 3 feet of me.  With my luck, that thing will be able to jump 5 feet.

[Blarg]

Meh. My Filipina wife could still kill it with a slipper without even spilling her mango juice.

Does she cook it with a chili-lime-coconut sauce?

[arch stanton]

Does she cook it with a chili-lime-coconut sauce?

More of a vinegar-soy, adobo style

[Tank]

I would chop off my foot and give it to that thing to distract it then hobble away bleeding and screaming like Kelvim Escobar's prison bitch.  

 

well, yeah, but you'd only be able to do that once.

[LBHalos17]

That monster is within the shooting policy.  At all times.  Unless you're climbing its tree in the rainforest.  Then, you're probably already within the shooting policy anyway.