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16-08-2008, 1:37 PM
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Just after my close shave with death (please see thread about horrifc accident), I saw this demon from HellBoy II in my garden trying to run off with the shed...
Pics aren't particulary clear as I was trembling in fear and fighting the natural instinct to run... I was also debating introducing it to my 4lb club hammer or sledgehammer but I didn't want it to take them off me and use it against me...
The body is about 15mm long by 10mm wide and it had hairy knuckles...
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16-08-2008, 1:43 PM
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Looks like blood splattered liberally around in the second photo.* Are all the neighbours accounted for or did the nasty spider make a snack of one of them before visiting you?
* or you may have red bricks under some peeling paint
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16-08-2008, 3:35 PM
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Nope its blood. We get grizzly bears wondering into our back gargen so I think it must've had one of them away....
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16-08-2008, 4:17 PM
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Looks like a house spider.
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16-08-2008, 4:21 PM
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God damn you people, I won' be able to sleep for the next week now.
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16-08-2008, 4:44 PM
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These were in Iraq:
Toebiter or Giant Water Bug
Camel Spider
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16-08-2008, 4:47 PM
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That Giant Water Bug is a funny looking thing... I'm guessing by the name 'Toebiter' they can be quite vicious?
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16-08-2008, 4:48 PM
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Disgusting aren't they! No need for them at all!
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16-08-2008, 5:01 PM
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Originally Posted by o Beetlejuice o That Giant Water Bug is a funny looking thing... I'm guessing by the name 'Toebiter' they can be quite vicious? | Can be. You should have seen people move when it flew. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belostomatidae
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16-08-2008, 6:09 PM
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Oh my god! Those things need to be dispatched as soon as possibly! Hideous!
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16-08-2008, 6:39 PM
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Originally Posted by shodan Disgusting aren't they! No need for them at all! | 
I love em.
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16-08-2008, 9:35 PM
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My old folks live in the countryside and my room was in the attic space there was this one wily old beast of a spider about the size of a mans palm I regularly used to grab him and run him downstairs to lob him outa the back door...
Everytime when I got back upstairs there he was already sat there grinning
used to wonder what he got upto when I was asleep
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16-08-2008, 9:41 PM
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OMG, i won't sleep tonight!!!
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17-08-2008, 8:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Sonic67 | Bloody hell...
I like this quote: Quote: |
Occasionally when encountered by a larger predator, such as a human, they have been known to "play dead" and emit a fluid from their anus.[1] Due to this they are assumed dead by humans only to later "come alive" with painful results.
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17-08-2008, 9:02 AM
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What about this one, from my garden, sitting on my hand.
Look how many eyes I"ve got. - All the better to see you with.
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