White Tail Spider

[HAWKS HEROES]

thats not good CrazyQ hope the itches go away soon

 

[BigBadCam]

thats not good CrazyQ hope the itches go away soon

Meth Addicts Demand Government Address Nation's Growing Spider Menace

January 30, 2007 | Issue 43•05







WASHINGTON, DC—Following the tragic falling death of 32-year-old methamphetamine addict Phillip Diggs, who was reportedly attacked by spiders while scaling a large construction crane near Palo Alto, CA, thousands of outraged and confused meth addicts marched frenetically on Washington as part of a week of activities urging the federal government to address the nation's growing spider epidemic.
Enlarge Image Harlowe pleads with senators to ask the King of America to do something about "all the goddamned spiders."

"Something needs to be done and it needs to be done soon—these spiders are everywhere," said Rich Harlowe, event organizer and founder of Tweakers' Rights NowNowNowNowNowNowNowNowNow!, in testimony before a Senate committee Tuesday. "The government must address this problem before the situation gets out of hand and these poisonous, acid-shooting spiders develop the powers of mind control or—God forbid—flight."
"America cannot afford to ignore this any crisis any longer," Harlowe added.
The rally drew addicts from every part of the country, many traveling on foot through the night, trading sex with truck drivers for rides, or stealing their brothers-in-law's bicycles. At dozens of rambling public speeches, organizers decried the fact that it took the spider-related death of an innocent meth addict to raise awareness of the issue, while lauding the bravery of meth addicts, and methamphetamines themselves.
A 45,000-word proposal was drafted by members of TRN during a marathon, 72-hour meeting under the Roosevelt Bridge, and presented twice to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. The document, which includes schematics for the development of a giant "spider bomb" the size of Rhode Island, concludes repeatedly that the problem would best be combated with large quantities of methamphetamines and steel wool.
Enlarge Image The TRN proposal closely mirrored the plot of the 1990 horror film Arachnophobia.

"This very morning, I saw a small child completely covered in hairy, bloodsucking, screaming tarantulas while his parents stood by and did nothing," said protester Joe Lopez, pausing to spit out a black and decayed tooth. "I was appalled. I shouted horrible profanities and incantations at them, but they ignored me."
"I, I, I don't—this is just, just, just—I, I, I—guh, ah," he added.
TRN activists claimed that they called for federal assistance only as a last resort, after months of trying to contain the problem with diplomacy, force, cathode rays, and methamphetamines.
"These spiders are unstoppable," meth addict and self-described spider-hater Christine Mitchell said. "We've tried everything from scrubbing ourselves raw with bleach, to burning them off with lit cigarettes, to scrubbing ourselves raw with bleach. We've even tried burning them off with lit cigarettes. We're out of options."
Mitchell urged senators to form an anti-spider task force, but cautioned that the creatures' ability to appear and disappear at will would rule out a bleach-related "quick fix" solution to the infestation.
Several other unnamed addicts who wandered in and out of the hearings described their efforts to establish "an open dialogue" with the spiders, but said the arachnids responded by growing dramatically in size and speaking with the voices of John Goodman, Gene Hackman, and Rosie Perez, bringing the first round of negotiations to an abrupt end.
"We tried talking to them, we tried screaming at them, we tried bursting into uncontrollable crying fits in front of them, but nothing seemed to work," said one witness, who refused to divulge his name, age, or "who sent [him] here." "Even with human heads, they would not listen to reason."
Though most committee members had left the hearings before Harlowe's closing remarks at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, some indicated a willingness to investigate the addicts' claims more closely.
"I believe it is our duty and responsibility to act before we lose even more Americans of voting age," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–CA), who noted that her home state had more meth addicts than any other in the country. "Pollsters tell us that one in five voters is, has been, or will be a meth addict at some point in their lifetimes. That's a voting bloc too big for us to ignore."

These ones are pretty brutal. lol.

 

[HAWKS HEROES]

oh dear that stuff makes you itch so all those red marks are not from spiders it is from themselves bad stuff that meth

 

[krusden]

Try the melbourne museum website ( i think) - there is a live stream on fridays of their spider being fed and it's a good antidote to a boring friday arvo

 

[morell]

The Curse has struck again.

Put my shirt on this morning, thought I saw something move over my shoulder. I then shifter to in front of the mirror and sure e****ingnough there is a black spider sitting in the middle of my back. I'll admit it wasn’t very big but it still wasn’t' something you want.

I started flailing about like an orang-utan on uppers trying to get the ****er off to no avail. The **** KNEW where I could and couldn’t reach to and sat right in the middle. I kept flailing about and eventually I looked back in the mirror and it wasn't there. I couldn't see it anywhere on the ground so now I am panicking thinking that it’s in my hair or down my pants or something.

Somehow it managed to leap into the bath which was metres away. That was its first mistake. I drowned that ****er!

Creeeeeeepy!

 

[adelaide_40]

I havent seen one spider since this thread was started which is a good thing cos I hate the little ****ers.

 

[daddy_4_eyes]

Scary thread. I hate spiders!

Anyway, I found one of these hanging outside my window about 12 months ago:

A 'St Andrew's Cross Spider' according to Museum Victoria. Its meant to be harmless, but I didn't know it at the time. Saw the f&cker and nearly pooped myself from the fright it gave me. I emptied half a Mortein can on the thing, but it just sat there unmoved. I didn't have the balls to try and squish it. This things body looks almost plastic, and I had this weird (irrational) feeling that if I tried to squish it the thing would just casually bench press the shoe/newspaper off itself.

So I grabbed some deodorant, a lighter, and fried the little bastard with my flame thrower!
Take note kids: Half a can of mortein stuck to the web & house wall + flamethrower = big focking fire! Probably lucky I didn't burn down the house in the end.

 

[Thrawn]

So I grabbed some deodorant, a lighter, and fried the little bastard with my flame thrower!
Take note kids: Half a can of mortein stuck to the web & house wall + flamethrower = big focking fire! Probably lucky I didn't burn down the house in the end.

You silly man.

The things people do due to an irrational fear...

 

[Watto]

I havent seen one spider since this thread was started which is a good thing cos I hate the little ****ers.

Have had 3 huntsman spiderlings found only in my room in the last 3 or so days, not sure if they came in through the gap in the flyscreen or there is a mother/eggsack somewhere in my room. Thing is you can't let them get away and hide otherwise there is the chance the next time you see them they'll be 20 times bigger.

Tis what sucks about opening up our windows and main doors after a hot day in the evening to let the cool change through. It's a gamble because you know the kind of things that will get through (even though we have fly screens).

Summer brings em all out

 

[Essendonfc_4_lyfe]

Have had 3 huntsman spiderlings found only in my room in the last 3 or so days, not sure if they came in through the gap in the flyscreen or there is a mother/eggsack somewhere in my room. Thing is you can't let them get away and hide otherwise there is the chance the next time you see them they'll be 20 times bigger.

Tis what sucks about opening up our windows and main doors after a hot day in the evening to let the cool change through. It's a gamble because you know the kind of things that will get through (even though we have fly screens).

Summer brings em all out

Mhmm. The problem being..... im lacking the fly screens.

 

[Thrawn]

We have fly screens but a couple of huntsmans still manage to sneak in. Of course, not as bad as before we had them though.

 

[betterthanu]

I go with the theory that if you have daddy long legs around it keeps other spiders away. Got about 7 daddy long legs chillin in my room atm. I wouldnt even really care if one of them crawled on me. Spiders arent really that big a deal for me though.

Though i did wake up one morning to a huntsman on my chest and in half a second i moved about 7 meters both in the air and away from my bed once i flicked him off

 

[Schism]

The best thing is to live right by the sea. My mum lives a few metres from the beach, i've never seen a spider at her place. Same with the grandarents holiday home, hardly ever see anything nasty inside. Get a few orbies outside though. Not like suburban Adelaide (especially near creeks), where giant wolfies and hunstsmans seem to be in plague proportions at the start of every summer.

I reckon i've killed about 4 white tips since i got bitten, mostly in the lounge at night as they switch to hunting mode. The upside of getting bitten is i now have a 6th sense about smaller spiders like the white tip. I seek and destroy. The downside is my family calls me Peter Parker now."Heya pete!".It's wearing thin already.

 

[Thrawn]

The upside of getting bitten is i now have a 6th sense about smaller spiders like the white tip. I seek and destroy. The downside is my family calls me Peter Parker now."Heya pete!".It's wearing thin already.

But wouldn't that make you Spiderman's arch nemesis?

 

[Schism]

But wouldn't that make you Spiderman's arch nemesis?

I don't know, i haven't seen any of the spiderman movies. That's just what they call me, i thought it was spidermans real name? Eh who cares, it's giving me the shits either way

 

[Macca19]

The best thing is to live right by the sea. My mum lives a few metres from the beach, i've never seen a spider at her place.

Ive had the opposite experiences. The biggest spiders ive ever seen were when I was a kid living at Tennyson about 10 metres from the beach. Huge ****ers.

 

[Schism]

Ive had the opposite experiences. The biggest spiders ive ever seen were when I was a kid living at Tennyson about 10 metres from the beach. Huge ****ers.

Yeah?strange. My mums is at Seacliff. None of us have ever seen a decent spider inside. One or 2 that hang around outside,near lights at night bug hunting, but apart from that it's an arachnaphobes dream.

 

[Schism]

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Nature/Spiders/index.html

I know,dodgy name, but it isn't a pr0n site.

 

[warney7]

Thanks to this bloody thread I'll be stripping my bed before I get into it tonight....thanks!

 

[CrazyQ]

I saw a spider, pretty small. It was greenish, I've actually never seen it before. I killed it though.

 

[And_ROOS]

Redback crawled over my foot 2 days after reading, it acted like i wasnt even there. When it eventually wandered off my foot i obliterated it with a nearby brick.

The cracking sound it makes made me think i just killed a peanut.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

I prefer not to kill spiders, unless they're 1) dangerous (ie white tails and red backs) and 2) inside, in fact I'd only ever kill a white tail or red back, outside or inside. And maybe a window or black spider which I can't tell if it's got a white dot on the back, don't really want to take the risk.

 

[Schism]

Kill 'em all

 

[warney7]

Haha!

Inded, Schism!

 

[fryingpan]

Man why did I read this thread, now I'm worried.

Now I'll be checking every inch of my bed tonight, and tomorrow night and so forth.

****in hate spiders.