My wife, the monster Slayer

[Vodstok]

Bree did a really brave thing this morning. i wont get into the gory details, but she caught one of these from our daughter's room this morning with the vacuum:

http://www.uidaho.edu/so-id/entomology/malehobo.jpg
(I linked it because i want her to see this, but she doesnt need to see the spider pic...)

It was apparently the size of a silver dollar (she said the body itself was a good 3/4 inch). Now, Bree is EXTREMELY arachnophobic. little tiny spiders scare her. She was petrified by this thing, and I couldnt help because i was 5 minutes from work, which meant i was 85 minutes form home.

But she fought through the fear and got that sucker, and now it is in the vacuum on the back deck, waiting for me to empty it. :)

[ItsAlive75]

Yeah, we have wolf spiders around our apartment complex, too. Those things are fuckin' nasty as hell, sometimes we find em' inside... I know spiders are helpful and all, but they're so damn creepy.

[newb]

Thank god....when I saw the title of this thread I thought you were gonna bore us with a sex story.

:D

http://bestsmileys.com/scared/2.gif

[ItsAlive75]

Originally posted by newb
Thank god....when I saw the title of this thread I thought you were gonna bore us with a sex story.

:D

http://bestsmileys.com/scared/2.gif

Well then wouldn't it be called, "Vodstok, the mood killer?"

[VampiricClown]

The only thing I have anything to do with spiders is killing them. I hate the bastards...

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by ItsAlive75
Well then wouldn't it be called, "Vodstok, the mood killer?" only for man-haters like yourself. Man hater.


Manist. i think.

[Miss Olivia]

When I lived in Georgia, a spider came into the house once that was the size of my HAND, I swear. It stood about an inch off the floor too. I forced myself to get close enough to throw a magazine at it, and the evil bastard started RUNNING AROUND THE FLOOR with the magazine still on TOP OF IT. Finally I threw a shoe on top of the magazine and squashed the sucker into spider oblivion. Uh, it makes me ill just thinking about it. I hate spiders so much.

[The Flayed One]

Originally posted by Miss Olivia
When I lived in Georgia, a spider came into the house once that was the size of my HAND, I swear. It stood about an inch off the floor too. I forced myself to get close enough to throw a magazine at it, and the evil bastard started RUNNING AROUND THE FLOOR with the magazine still on TOP OF IT. Finally I threw a shoe on top of the magazine and squashed the sucker into spider oblivion. Uh, it makes me ill just thinking about it. I hate spiders so much.


Was it one of those hug Camel Spiders:eek:

http://p.vtourist.com/1671331-spider_camel-Dubai.jpg

[Miss Olivia]

Holy shit, that's disturbing.....I don't really know why, but eeewww.....

I actually think it was a mutant wolf spider. I've never seen a bigger one before or since....it made the banana spiders look cute and cuddly.:eek:

[Vodstok]

true story that threw me into a near-psychotic state of arachnophobia for close to 10 years:


when i live din germany the second time, i was about 12 halfway through the first year we were there. there was a field with waist high grass across the street from where i lived that i would play in all the time.

i was in it one time cutting the heads off of stinging nettles with a stick when i noticed a HUGE brown spider by my foot, looking at me. it was easily 2 inches across with it's legs bent. i lokked around real quick for a way out wheree i wouldnt get stung (the field was mostly nettles). before i got a chance to move, i felt something on my leg, UNDER my pant leg. i looked down and the thing was so big, my pants were moving as it climbed. Think of Jerry running around under the carpet in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

i dont think anything in my life has ever gotten me to move that fast before or since. I RAN full tilt through the nettles until i hit the road, the dropped my pants off, stomped on them (I had to fight to get them over my shoes) and ran like hell for the house.

Imagine a skinny-ass pasty 12 year old running and screaming, trying not to cry. I had to get my pants to get my keys, because the front door automatically locked when it closed.

from that point on, i would be paralyzed if i saw a spider. And that part of germany is crawling with big-ass house spiders...

[Miss Olivia]

I used to live in Germany when I was a kid too, but I was really young so the only thing I can remember were giant slugs that I would jump on in my Mary Janes and squish. They would sometimes splat up my leg and my mom would yell at me to stop squishing the slugs, she didn't want to clean it up.

[bloodrayne]

We have these outside, mostly around our plants, behind the rosebushes, stuff like that...Seri gets freaked out by them...Probably because they are the BIGGEST spiders we have around here, these things are easily as long as your finger...I just think they look weird because they don't seem to be the right colors for a spider, know what I mean?

Seri makes me kill them...But, they're perfectly harmless...

It's a Garden Spider

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
We have these outside, mostly around our plants, behind the rosebushes, stuff like that...Seri gets freaked out by them...Probably because they are the BIGGEST spiders we have around here, these things are easily as long as your finger...I just think they look weird because they don't seem to be the right colors for a spider, know what I mean?

Seri makes me kill them...But, they're perfectly harmless...

It's a Garden Spider Garden spider. VERY good to have around. Bree is actually cool with those. We call them "Bertha" whenever we get them because they are, well, big.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by Vodstok
Bree is actually cool with those. Oops...Good thing...Cuz, I just remembered you were doing the link thingy to spare her

[persuasian70]

You might want to vaccum up some bug spray before you open that bag up. I'm sure he isn't dead and he's probably pissed as hell.

[orangestar]

I was outside a couple months ago and saw a HUGE black spider on the side of my house. I called my dad out and he grabbed some Black Flag spray to kill the bastard.

Turns out it was a she. DOZENS of tiny little baby spiders poured out of that fucker as she died. It was like her revenge on us. We had to round up all the little ones and kill them too. Creepiest thing I ever saw.

[The_Return]

There was an article in the paper this morning about some lady finding a big ol' Black Widow in some grapes she bought. Ugh, I hate those stories.

[monalisa]

I hate spiders, scared to death of them. I saw one of those black and yellow things in a field in Illinois once when I was staying there and taking my dog out to pee. Scared the hell out of me. Glad to hear they're harmless, but they sure don't LOOK harmless. *shudder*

I had an experience with a whole 'herd' of wolf spiders in Northern Minnesota once. I don't want to retype the whole thing though, so here's a link to it. http://www.horror.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22577&perpage=15&highlight=wolf%20and%20spider&pagenumber=2

[crabapple]

A cartoon about an encounter with a big frakking spider. This is a couple of years old, and it's a favorite Flash cartoon of mine.

http://www.batemania.com/animation/hfilm.html

While it's loading (if you're on a slow connection), it will play some title cards you can read. Then a brief cartoon story--a TRUE story narrated by Heather herself--will begin.

[VampiricClown]

Originally posted by Miss Olivia
When I lived in Georgia, a spider came into the house once that was the size of my HAND, I swear. It stood about an inch off the floor too. I forced myself to get close enough to throw a magazine at it, and the evil bastard started RUNNING AROUND THE FLOOR with the magazine still on TOP OF IT. Finally I threw a shoe on top of the magazine and squashed the sucker into spider oblivion. Uh, it makes me ill just thinking about it. I hate spiders so much.

Georgia has some pretty damn big spiders....Not fun at all.

We had one in our house the other day, the legs on it could probably stretch the length of my palm.

[Roderick Usher]

pussies;)

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by Roderick Usher
pussies;) Nope... No one has said they were afraid of those yet. no doubt there are some frequent masturbaters out there that look at pictures but scream in fear whenever confronted with one.....

[Miss Olivia]

LOL

[VampiricClown]

Originally posted by trippin_the_rif

Pussy you say? Well I guess I am what I eat.:D

I'll second that. :p

@Roderick
I don't really think anyones said they were scared yet. I don't like them, but I don't run in fright. I can kill the bastards....unlike some of my friends. :rolleyes: I'm usually the one they call to kill the beasts. lol

[Miss Olivia]

Spiders do scare me, but I'll mash them into spider paste anyway. Fear doesn't necessarily make a person a coward. I think a lot of times fear makes me braver....even when confronting horrible mutant spiders.
Unless it's this one.
Then I run and scream.

:D

[crabapple]

Those Denver spiders are scary in all their variations!

[Vodstok]

Both denver spiders got busted for substance abuse and are now dead. Poor spiders. :(

[monalisa]

Don't mess with this one. Aarrrrrrr, he'll bite ye legs off 'n steal all yer money 'n rum he will...aarrrrrrr :p

[monalisa]

Don't mess with his sister either!

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by trippin_the_rif
Issues we have, dont we monalisa? Perhaps, yoda.

[Lala_Sound]

ARGHAGAHAGAGAGAGHAAHAHA
just the picture makes me itch :eek:
I dont like little spiders either I hate them all but my friend did this really cruel thing once because I could never ever kill an animal and my friend boiled one in a kettle and let her sister see it in her tea :( how cruel?
I've got a video of me and my mum basically shitting ourselves over this spider that looks like a fluffy hand haha and I looks so young XD

[monalisa]

Originally posted by trippin_the_rif
Issues we have, dont we monalisa?

Issues? For posting a couple of spider pictures? Um, no, do you? :o

Be a good boy now and go lay by your dish. :p

[monalisa]

Originally posted by trippin_the_rif
My life is a novel of issues. LOL.



GO LAY BY MY DISH?????? Oh you'll pay for that one deary.:p Ya wanna rub my belly?:p :p

If I scratch behind your ear, will you thump your back leg? Oh, sorry, that's not your leg. :cool:

[crabapple]

:eek:

[Miss Olivia]

OH MY GOD.....you know, it would be cool to do an episode of Gilligan's Island with Spider Ginger and Spider Skipper etc....it could be pretty damn funny. I wish I knew how to animate.:(

[crabapple]

That would be funny! "Gilligan's Spiders"