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General Category => The Sump => Topic started by: BlackBedford on May 28, 2009, 10:07:13 AM
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Could be worse Craig..... :-\It could be a BIG HAIRY SPIDER :o :o (Craig hates spiders everyone) lol ;D
Everybody has a Spider story, so how about it?
Heres one to start:
I was sitting on the lounge with the lights out, watching TV and eating grapes out of a bowl. I picked up a grape and it felt a bit furry but I didn't worry about it. As I went to put it in my mouth, the silouhette of big hairy legs poped out in front of my face.
Yes I quickly threw it away and yes I squelled like a girlie.
So Craig don't eat grapes in the dark.
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I feel a Saddle Back story comming on
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There was a bunch of red back spiders living in my bedford when I bought it. I sprayed it every morning for a week.
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MMMMMMM.........
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G'day
I once drove around in a 1963 Datsun Bluebird trayback ute. It was very small with a bench seat. It was fairly stock except of a late model Nissan motor and gearbox. I had a large shiny black pet spider living in a tight white funnel shaped web in the corner of the dash.
One day I had to deliver my large sister-in-law, and her large friend, to a nearby suburb. The 3 of us in the cab was an extremely tight fit.
I was driving on a 3 lane road when my sister-in-law saw the funnel shaped web. I did not know just how scared of spiders she was, but I was about to find out.
"W-What's that?" she said very nervously pointing.
"Oh that's my pet spider's house. He keeps the flies at bay"
"There's no spider in it"
"Well he is probably running around the cab doing his job."
She is madly looking around the cab trying to find my pet spider when I decide to have some fun by running a finger up the back of her leg.
Bad move!
18 stone of fat exploded.
She was sitting in the middle and tried to get out both the drivers door and passengers door. I totally lost control of the ute and took up all 3 lanes trying to stop. Other cars dodged me and it was a scene out of a movie with cars going in every direction.
I finally stopped and she pushed her friend out onto the road and jumped out.
People got out their cars and came runing over to the ute to find out what was wrong.
Picture this:
There is an hysterical women jumping up and down uncontrolably, there is another women standing there looking very perplexed with no idea as to what just happened and the driver is curled over leaning against the tray laughing so hard that he is crying and can not stand up.
We composed ourselves and she climbed onto the back of the ute and we resumed our trip. She has NEVER got back into any of my vehicles.
So Craig don't ride in one of my vehicles.
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Haha Chris - better than a "No Fat Chicks" sticker on your van
Warren
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I had a lemonade spider with two scoops of icecream and the bugger gave me a brain freeze :D :D ;D ;D
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when I was a p plater....long ago in a galaxy far...er hang on :P
I used to play basketball 6 nights a week ...yes its true... >:( but AFTER a rather physical game one night at about 10.45ish in winter I was driving my poor old beddy home in the pouring rain After only having it for a week I didn't have an interior light and the wipers were those usual well worn ones
A flekkkking great huge wolf spider ran across my windscreen ....welll ship dosnt run faster than me :o :o :o :o I mounted the curb up onto the pavement got stuck in the seat belt :( :( :( finally fell out of the drivers door ...and stood there for ten min ..........
I then decided that (in the rain) that was it...I walked the 15ks home!
came back the next day and never found the bloody thing .... so now every time I buy a beddie it gets spider bombed!! :-\ :-\ :-\
however its nuthin till we seen 1 we named saddle back!!! ;D ;D
from another beddie of course 8)
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I found a spider just yesterday in my Bedford it was a yellowish grey and I couldnt get in where it was to whack it so I sprayed it with primer spray ha did the trick..... nomore spider..
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Way back when I was building we found a 75 mm long weta (nz) and at about the same time we had the glaziers putting in some specially made glass, so being smart arses we decided to put it on thier sunvisor, after 15 mins we thought better of it and went to remove it only to find it had crawled into the sunglasses slot in the sunvisor so we left it be.
about three weeks later the glaziers came back and we were busting to find out what had happened, so we asked if they had had a problem with a weta. they replied "did you hear about that" playing dumb we said yeah, some what happened!
well apparently 3 days earlier the apprentice who was shit scared of wetas was driving, and flipped the sunvisor down only to have said weta land in his lap. Apparently he got out of the truck there and then, was a good job they wern't going to fast and that there was someone in the passenger seat to steer the truck and stop it!
Laughed so hard we nearly shat ourselves, glad it didn't happen to me!
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don't they reckon everyone eats a few spiders in their sleep in their life time?
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Here in NZ we used to have spiders known as Avondale spiders, they were unusual in the fact that they were a native to NZ, but were only found located in one area of Auckland.
Straingley enough it was Avondale, now these spider's were basicly harmless with the exception of being able to almost scare you to death.
The reason was these spider's grew to about the size of an adult hand and with legs fully extended could cover a dinner plate.
I know some of think im pulling your leg, but it dead true, you can google them or ask any Kiwi, my mum grew up around that area and she has seen them as a child.
They are all but extinct now, having been wiped out by shit scared house wifes.
Cheers
Rusty
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they are still around Rusty, not so much in Avondale more in Titirangi way
The "avondale spider" is actually from OZ, it's real name is the "huntsman spider" (I did a paper on this years ago). They can and do grow as big as dinner plates. They were used in that movie aroconda - however you spell it
Another useless fact; did you know the dirty long legs is actually poisonous, the thing is thou their fangs are to small to pierce the human skin
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did you know that the dady long legs is the most venomis spider but the fans are too small to byte people. but the do eat white tail's a good reasion to keep them around.
just some usless info.. oh it was Aracnophoba. i think thats how its spelt?? was a movie & apc game in its time.
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G'day
The huntsman spider is a large beast that can be tamed and makes an interesting pet.
I had a semi tamed one that that lived in an old railway carriage that I have. One end of the carriage is set up as a guest room. We had some friends coming for a vist and my daughter, and her friends, were told to clean the room and make the bed. As the girls walked over to the carriage I had a quiet chuckle. My wife and her friend asked what was so funny. I looked at the pretend watch on my wrist and said "wait for it".
What I had done was to put the large spider into a very small jewelry box and sit it on the bedside table.
Within a few minutes there was a lot of squeeling and jumping followed by a couple of hysterical girls back at the house in record time jibbering on about a spider.
Didn't fool my daughter though.
I have some large plastic spiders with magnets inserted and stuck to the metal walls in the carriage. One day I was in there with a mate and he nervously commented how one of my spiders had fallen off. As I reached down to pick it up it ran away. So did my mate.
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ha ha ha ha thats funny..... the bloooodie spider scared him away.. I ate a spider once for a dare it was dead though.... I must admit live ones creep me out.....
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Come on where are your spider stories?
When I worked from home, I had a large pet huntsman spider running around my bench. It would sit and watch me work. When he was hungry he would run towards me and wave his front legs. I would catch a fly and flick it at him. He would catch it and devour it.
We were mates.
One day I was packing some parts to send back for warranty claim when unknown to me, my mate crawled into the box. I sealed it up and sent it off.
Several days later I rang to enquire as to the status of my box of parts. I got a very frosty reception. "What's wrong?" I asked.
Apparently the box was opened and a "giant funnel web spider" jumped out and attacked everybody. The spider was huge and had no fear of anybody. There was a mass exodus of staff waving their hands above their head, yelling profusely in their native tongue. They went on strike and refused to enter the warehouse until the monster was killed. A pest exterminator was called who eventually found my mate and killed him. The carcass was nailed to the notice board. After several hours, work resumed.
When told of this I was horrified, "my poor little mate" I said.
The receptionist said "what do you mean little?"
I said "he was only a baby, would you like me to send you his mother?"
"Mother? How big is his mother?" she nervously replied.
"Oh about as big as a dinner plate"
"Oh,no,no,please no"
Well a couple of months later the Bogan moths were hatching and big ones can have a 40cm wingspan. I caught the biggest moth I could find and put it into a box of warranty parts and sent it off.
Several days later I rang and was told a story.
Apparently the box was opened and a "giant vampire moth" flew out and attacked everybody. The moth was huge and had no apparent fear of anybody. Again there was a mass exodus of staff waving their hands above their head, yelling profusely in their native tongue. Again they went on strike and refused to enter the warehouse until the monster was killed. A pest exterminator was called who eventually found the moth and killed him. Again the carcass was nailed to the notice board.
When I asked how big the moth was I said that "that sounds like a baby one. Would you like me to send a fully grown one?"
I had several Sydneysiders convinced that monster spiders and moths lived west of the Blue Mountains, and they were never going to visit me.
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;D ;D ;D That's a classic!!! Love it!!! Wish we had real scarey shit like that down here in SA
Cheers Brian O :o