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http://www.videovat.com/videos/521/camel-spider.aspx
These are called Camel Spiders. Not actually Spiders or Camels but the closest thing I’ve seen thats living on this planet and looks like a facehugger 😯
before you worry about gong in your shed with the light off these buggers are from the middle eastYeeech!
I can’t stand big insects (or sharks). Those things give me the heebie jeebies (a genuine psychological condition). Yet every fuggin’ country the wife makes us visit either has ‘the worlds biggest spider’, ‘the worlds most aggressive spider’ or ‘the worlds most heavily armed spider’. I saw one in Sri Lanka that was the size of my hand, but it didn’t bother the locals as it would ‘only sting’.
When we were in Kenya there was a gecko in our room about 6 inches long. The wife hated it, but I kept feeding him ‘cos he liked eating spiders. My enemies enemy is my friend.
Although I don’t he’d have stood a chance against a baboon spider:
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Bastards.
Just been reading up on these damn Camel Spiders here (although they’re not actually spiders). They’ve got a page dedicated to stories, mostly from soldiers out in the middle east:
This is my experience w/ these damn monsters they call spiders. I was stationed at Bagram Airbase w/ an MP company in Afganistan in 2003-2004, while walking back from the MWR minding my own bussiness daydreaming when I would be going home, I encountered a camel spider, had to have been at least 5 inches big, not including the legs, was walking beside me this scared the hell out of me and I broke into a trot. Well, there and behold, this thing still next to me which scared me even more, but was even more scarier was when it tried to jump onto my leg. I screamed like a little girl ( I AM A 5’10, 180 LBS. MAN) and took off running as fast I could trying to get away from this damn thing, it kept jumping on my leg and I would kick it off, it would jump back on my leg and again I would kick it off this went on for a few moments but it felt like forever ( I thought I was going to have a heart attack) I wanted to shoot it but thought that if I missed it I would really piss this thing off so I didn’t. I kept running. I eventually got away from it and will never forget that nightmare, it’ll haunt me forever. That encounter w/ the spider was worser then when I had a scorpian crawl up onto my foot while wearing shower shoes ( flip flops).
*shudders*
Oh great!
‘He saw a huge spider and screamed to his sister, Cassie. They tried to put a pint glass over it but the spider was too big. They poked it with a coat hanger and it bit the hanger. The dog came in, jumped on the bed and barked at it. The spider hissed and Bella went running out whimpering.’
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