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modded_corsa

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7th Jul 04 at 11:57

how cool are these.....wouldnt like to be a soldier in iraq

http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/camelspider.htm

The photo below reportedly comes from a soldier, stationed in Baghdad, who was bitten by a camel spider that was hiding in his sleeping bag. Fortunately, these critters aren't venomous... but they're BIG and FAST (they can run around 10MPH). The photo shows two spiders attached together, and the camera angle makes them look a tad larger than they really are (they're about the size of an adult's hand). They also tend to seek out shade during the daytime, so it's not terribly unusual to see them charging across the desert at you -- only to come to a screeching halt when they reach your shadow.

They run 10 mph, jump three feet, are a nocturnal spider, so only come out at night unless they are in shade. When they bite you, you are injected with Novocaine so you go numb instantly.

You don't even know you are bitten when you are sleeping, so you wake up with part of your leg or arm missing because it has been gnawing on it all night long.

If you are walking around and you bump something that is casting a shadow over it, and the sun makes contact with it, you better run. It will instantly run for your shadow, and scream the whole time it is chasing you.

PS. The one on the bottom is eating the one on the top!

These are Spiders found daily in IRAQ by our troops. Imagine waking up and seeing one of these in your tent!!

TNM

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7th Jul 04 at 12:05

sick.

modded_corsa

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7th Jul 04 at 12:07

the scary thing is tho:

you could be camping out in iraq

and one of these crawls into youer tent/sleeping bag.......numbs you...(you dont feel it biting you)

and u wake up in the morning with an arm or a leg missin

Smiffie

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7th Jul 04 at 12:09

Stuckey

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7th Jul 04 at 12:12

this was posted ages ago apprently its not true

Lynny

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7th Jul 04 at 12:12

cool i want one

modded_corsa

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7th Jul 04 at 12:15

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=137136

S1MON

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7th Jul 04 at 12:25

its all bollocks this story still look pretty mental though

Shelly

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7th Jul 04 at 12:25

thats just not good

Ojc

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7th Jul 04 at 13:56

Sorry but that is just fcuking sick.

I hate spiders.

sxi16vjoe

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7th Jul 04 at 14:02

Camel spider??

Better not give it the hump

M2RTY

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7th Jul 04 at 15:12

it was an april fools prank that STILL does the rounds

not true 1 bit

Shelly

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7th Jul 04 at 15:46

No it is, my boss has a brother out in Iraq and she said he had been talking about them....

Gavin

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7th Jul 04 at 16:14

feck that..... if i was over there and i seen one running about.... i would be like... LATERS and be on the first flight back to England

there MASSIVE

pew pew pew pewwwww

Jules S

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7th Jul 04 at 16:20

quote:
Originally posted by modded_corsa
the scary thing is tho:

you could be camping out in iraq
and one of these crawls into youer tent/sleeping bag.......numbs you...(you dont feel it biting you)

and u wake up in the morning with an arm or a leg missin

reah right, feck me i'd be more worried about my todger

SteveW

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7th Jul 04 at 16:27

spiders scare me at the best of time.. let alone ones that can carry me away

TOO FUKIN BIG THEM

Jules S

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7th Jul 04 at 16:37

when I lived in Nigeria I had an army of ants walking through my bedroom.....they were loud enough to wake me up

so I fired down every bit of ant powder i had and went back to sleep.....

when I woke up in the morning there were three dead spiders about the size of my hand on the floor by my bed. had eaten too many ant powder covered ants

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