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Spiders don't usually bother me but...

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A tradesman got the fright of his life when a huge bird-eating spider crawled up his arm at work.

He was pumping concrete on a property in Oyster Bay, south of Sydney, on Wednesday when the spider, believed to be an Australian tarantula, crawled onto his shoulder.

'I felt it crawling up my arm and seen it when it was near my shoulder. I'm not easily scared but was a little freaked about the size of it,' he told Daily Mail Australia

- [url= http://www.****/news/article-5175185/Sydney-tradesman-finds-giant-spider-crawling-arm.html ]Daily Mail link (sorry)[/url]


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 8:21 pm
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Nope 😯 ftfagos....


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 8:30 pm
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Seems like a reasonable response..

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Posted : 14/12/2017 8:33 pm
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Posted : 14/12/2017 8:35 pm
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If you turn it upside down it looks like a cute sleepy alien


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 8:53 pm
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If you turn it upside down it'll have yer arm off


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 8:59 pm
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Size a them fangs!!


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 9:09 pm
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I can think of umpteen reasons why it's called a Nope spider.

Go on, pick it up...Nope

Go on, stroke it...Nope

Would you like one for a pet...Nope


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 9:10 pm
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2 bullets... Just saying what we are all thinking


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 9:13 pm
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Dust off and nuke it from orbit I say!


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 10:02 pm
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2 bullets... Just saying what we are all thinking

that you're a lousy shot?


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 10:14 pm
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that

thing

there are no underpants known to man that could contain the reaction if I saw that crawling up my arm


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 10:23 pm
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I'd just saw my arm off at the shoulder with a panel-saw. The face of the saw acting as a face/spider blockade until the marrow is breached, gravity takes over and arm and spider fall to the floor as I run away squealing.


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 10:26 pm
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Nope I am a good shot - just need to make sure


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 10:32 pm
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Posted : 14/12/2017 10:33 pm
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Situations like this call for an anti spider dog.

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Posted : 14/12/2017 10:40 pm
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It's not really called a "nope" though is it? Surely that was just Graham's joke name...


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 11:06 pm
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It's not really called a "nope" though is it?

I think you’ll find that from now on any large spider is going to be a ‘nope’, if past experience is anything to go by...
(Baby robins, etc...)


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 11:10 pm
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For funkmasterp . ha, not so scary now 🙂

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Posted : 14/12/2017 11:11 pm
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2 bullets... Just saying what we are all thinking
that you're a lousy shot?

Nah, first one through the head, second was because a leg twitched.
It never hurts to be sure.
For funkmasterp . ha, not so scary now

Not so sure, it’s obviously been feeding, and burped up something, but just [i]what has it been feeding on?[/i]
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I'd be more worried that that was the little one.

Yeah, just wait until it wakes up and starts crying for it’s mummy and daddy!


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 11:12 pm
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I'd be more worried about what the little ones were up to while this one was doing the distracting.


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 11:13 pm
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I'd be more worried that that was the little one.


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 11:15 pm
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there are no underpants known to man that could contain the reaction

I know, phwoarr!


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 11:19 pm
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so
wrong


 
Posted : 14/12/2017 11:29 pm
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For funkmasterp . ha, not so scary now

Thanks Dez 😀


 
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@ DezB any chance you could 'shop a joint into the 'mouth' of Mr Alien Spider there? I'm facing a crap day at work today and it would really get me through.

Also, are tarantula's 'bird eating'? im sadly not an entomologist, and far be it for me to question a Mail article for authenticity- they're normally always bob on- but can we fact check that?


 
Posted : 15/12/2017 8:44 am
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far be it for me to question a Mail article

The original article said "flesh-eating" 🙄


 
Posted : 15/12/2017 8:50 am
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Bird eating spiders belong to the same family as the tarantula, I think.


 
Posted : 15/12/2017 9:26 am
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[i]any chance you could 'shop a joint into the 'mouth' of Mr Alien Spider there?[/i]

Not easy with the crap software I'm allowed at work! Here ya go. Someone should "meme generate" it, I reckon... 🙂

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2 bullets... Just saying what we are all thinking
Surely the 2nd is for yourself if you miss the spider with the first...


 
Posted : 15/12/2017 10:09 am
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Posted : 15/12/2017 10:15 am
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So wasteful though - it was all "kill two bird(eating spider)s with one stone" when I were a lad. You should be saving that second bullet for the one thats in your slippers.


 
Posted : 15/12/2017 10:17 am
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Weirdly i find that less disturbing than aragog that lives in my flat which is only like 3/4 the size of that monster.


 
Posted : 15/12/2017 10:18 am