Tiger
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I just found this on another forum I use and really had to show you! I didnt really mind spiders before but now theres a whole new ballgame!
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They run 10 mph, jump three feet, and 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.
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 bastards in your tent!!
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Russ
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can of Raid = sorted
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Davido
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feck me they r horrible
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Mattb
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looks like somthing from 8 legged freaks...
minging
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Pablo
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Originally posted by Mattb
looks like somthing from 8 legged freaks...
minging
I had to stop that film, I hate spiders  Freak shite out of me
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Siberia
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fark! i was in a pet shop the other day and i seen a trantualla for the first time. it ws the size of my hand!.
i'm a grown man but when it come to spiders i'm one BIG sissy. i bloody hate them!
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Mattb
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but what is writen up there is un-true
cut an pasted from some sciency website
SDSTAFF Doug replies:
Doesn't this sound like the perfect topic for today, April Fool's Day? We thought you'd appreciate it.
Urban legends about the camel spider (properly termed a solpugid or solifugid) are as old as the proverbial hills, but they made a huge resurgence when vectored by American troops in Kuwait during Desert Storm. They're not quite as big as your hand (unless you're a five-year-old), and very shy and secretive. They do like to hide in the shadows, and they do run very, very quickly for a critter (they can reach about 10 MPH, the fastest known non-flying arthropod). They make no noise whatsoever, they have no venom whatsoever, and they do not eat flesh--they eat small desert arthropods like crickets and pillbugs. The rumors of their attacking camels, or crawling onto sleeping GIs' faces, apparently stem from one of two things, both of which may be true to some extent: (1) they may use hair to line their burrow when they are about to lay a batch of eggs, said hair being clipped from dead camels or other dead mammals (and a sleeping GI is not much different), and/or (2) dead camels are covered with flies, and crawling over a camel corpse may make for a convenient way to get a good meal of flies.
We have camel spiders in the sandy parts of the southwest U.S. and Mexico (in Mexico they are called matevenados), considerably smaller than the Middle Eastern types, but of the same shy, unassuming habits. Completely harmless and beneficial critters, like the desert equivalent of a praying mantis.
--SDSTAFF Doug
Straight Dope Science Advisory Board
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Mattb
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^^^^ and ill think you will find the picture is not real either
http://www.ecologicproductions.com/video_projects/TSCK/endangered/TSCK_spider.html
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M2RTY
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isnt that a camel spider? they aint deadly them things
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vibrio
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you'll also find that a spider would take a while to drink a 1/2 a leg
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Natalie
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Hate spiders 
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Mattb
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Originally posted by M2RV H
isnt that a camel spider? they aint deadly them things
no read the bit i posted... all urban myths 
they dont do humans, can you imagine if they were as described up there....
they would be the most frightening thing EVER, somthing that chased you screaming, ready to jump on you and eat ya arm........
tis all bollox, they aint even as big as a hand, so as vibrio said, it'd take a long time for it to eat an arm
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M2RTY
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aye like i said, they aint deadly lol
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Mattb
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^^^ i read it wrong.... psml sorry 
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Lynny
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Originally posted by P4UL
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Originally posted by Mattb
looks like somthing from 8 legged freaks...
minging
I had to stop that film, I hate spiders Freak shite out of me
pmls, the name of the film didnt give away to him what the film was about
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