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Arachnophobia..

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:42 pm
by Lyion

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:32 pm
by Lueyen
I can see the attraction to exotic, even dangerous pets, however letting them run around your home? Quite an odd story though.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:49 pm
by Tossica
I call bullshit.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:52 pm
by Iccarra
Spiders are evil. That is all.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:14 pm
by Narrock
Tossica wrote:I call bullshit.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:05 pm
by The Kizzy
Iccarra wrote:Spiders are evil. That is all.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:39 pm
by Lueyen
Narrock wrote:
Tossica wrote:I call bullshit.


I found some articles on it citing dates in 2004, might be.

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:24 am
by Narrock
I'm not saying it's impossible... it just sounds kind of far-fetched and hard to believe. We all know that Black Widows are venomous, but people who get bitten by them hardly ever die. They just get sick as hell for a couple weeks and have some intense pain for a while at the bite site.

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:31 pm
by Gaazy
I hate annoying flies more than spiders, and spiders kill annoying flies. gogo spiders

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:03 am
by araby
don't hate on spiders. I think this is the go-zillionth spider thread.

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:35 am
by ClakarEQ
I call BS as well, I think it woul take several bites from a BW to kill a grown person unless there was an alergy or something to the venom.

Even if remotly true, sort of gross either way and I like bugs LOL

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:52 am
by Tossica
My dad has been bitten many times over the years and despite never going to the hospital for the bites, the only long term issues he has are stiff joints, almost like arthritis.

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:52 am
by Lyion
The only good bug is a dead bug.

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Would you like to know more?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:32 am
by Tacks
wtftit

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:51 am
by kinghooter00
that made me shiver.... i Remember i had a pet turantula along time ago and while i was feeding it, it pounced at me... Scared me so bad, i bagged it up and dumped it in my town somewhere down the street.... fuck that...

I'm scared of them till this day....

saying one made a nest the size of a swallows in the corner????


ewwwwww....*shiver*

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:03 am
by Trielelvan
Tossica wrote:I call bullshit.

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:31 am
by kinghooter00
well, i guess thats what insects would do....
Black widows kill people... its not unheard of... i'll believe it and feel uncomfortable about it for the rest of the day.

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:59 pm
by 10sun
kinghooter00 wrote:well, i guess thats what insects would do....
Black widows kill people... its not unheard of... i'll believe it and feel uncomfortable about it for the rest of the day.


Considering the range of habitats for black widow spiders, I consider the number of deaths to be quite low at 63 deaths in a 39 year span.

Compared with shark bite victims at 39 in the same 39 year span and the habitat / encounters with humans to be greatly different, I would consider black widow spiders to be relatively harmless.

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:00 pm
by araby
did you watch shark week??! hehe.

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:03 pm
by Lyion
I did. Great stuff. I even watched the Mythbusters doing their Jaws special.

Animal Planet, Discovery, & Science channel represent the bulk of my non movie, non sports background noise viewing pleasure...

On the flip side, I couldn't watch a Spider Week. Sharks aren't creepy. Hairy lil bastards are...