Comments on: Spiders 08

By: Ed R

Ed R — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:04:13 +0000

You know,. I think Cliff lives in that general area. The Monster Of 14-Cubed ( 14cm long, 14 mph runner, 14foot jumper ) might be out to get him!

CLIFF! SAVE THE PUP FIRST!!

By: Katy Newton

Katy Newton — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:49:06 +0000

Ha, it was great the way that was reported. The headline was “SOLDIER HOME FROM IRAQ BRINGS HOME DEADLY VENOMOUS SPIDER THAT KILLED DOG”. The article, however, revealed the following:

1. camel spiders are not, as Ed points out, really spiders
2. they have no venom
3. their bite cannot kill a human being in itself, although obviously a bite could become infected like any other wound
4. although the dog had died shortly after the spider was discovered, there was no evidence that it had died from a spider bite and no post-mortem was planned.

I still wouldn’t want to share the house with a camel spider, you understand. UGH UGH.

By: Ed R

Ed R — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:53:42 +0000

I’d talk about that camel spider that killed the dog in colchester but camel spiders aren’t even really spiders.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:11:56 +0000

All spiders are evil. And out to get me. I used to live in Richmond (Surrey) and the massive creatures appearing in my tiny room were horrific. See, I’m not particular nice, either, because I have them assasinated. Maybe I’m evil, too.

Good god, Scroobious. Tarantulas?? I’d switch countries for that reason alone.

By: scroobious

scroobious — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:06:44 +0000

You English, you know nothing. Nothing. Your idea of big spiders is what, maybe the size of a £2 coin? Try growing up in Cape Town. We have TARANTULAS baby. Try waking up to see a tarantula on the ceiling.

(Except nobody calls them tarantulas, they call them baboon spiders, and claim they’re completely harmless, but it is a lie, they are aggressive jumpy tarantulas and they are venomous and evil. I only discovered this a few weeks ago. I’m not over the shock.)