F*@# i hate spiders

[fryerfighter94]

According to southpark, the invasion has already begun.

[clutch-monkey]

That shit's small fry.
Haven't even mentioned the fucking Salties yet.
Is there a scarier animal on the planet?

need bigger boats

[NeoMishMoo]

Holy shit I can't believe I forgot to refrence one of the greatest awful episodes of southpark ever. I guess I was still thinking of coconut crabs as spiders...

"crab people crab people..."

[dirtysix]

need bigger boats

I actually saw a guy fishing on the Daintree in a tinny about that size, and the crocs were bigger than that little fella.
He had his kids with him.

[mrsleeve]

if you look up their relatives the 'robber crab' - there have been instances of them dragging rubbish bins, camp supplies and - wait for it - barbecues into the sea (hence the name robber crab i guess). so they've already started!

correct me if I am wrong here but aren't the coconut and robber crab the same thing. The "robber" crab is just the more common/slang name for them.

[clutch-monkey]

^ probably man, i thought robber crab was the name given to them up on some northern islands. definately similar anyway.

I actually saw a guy fishing on the Daintree in a tinny about that size, and the crocs were bigger than that little fella.
He had his kids with him.

no way i could do that! :crazy:
i did do tag and release of bull sharks in the brisbane river for a PhD study being done - several hundred swim past the university everyday, mostly small though. however we did catch one that was just over a 1.2m long. not big for a shark, but enough to send the people swimming in the river (we were in a boat just off a park) scrambling out of the water when they watched us wave at them, tag it, and put it straight back into the river.

[mrsleeve]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Just watched a show about bulls in some river in South Africa last night, and these were BIG like 500+ lbs (sorry 225kg+) and 9 feet long (sorry again 3m).

Seems there has never been a human attack, and they think its because the sharks have plenty of fish to eat, they steal them from fisherman as the reel them it. The sharks were actually shadowing fishing boats.

here it is

http://animal.discovery.com/fish/river-monsters/bull-shark/

[NeoMishMoo]

but enough to send the people swimming in the river (we were in a boat just off a park) scrambling out of the water when they watched us wave at them, tag it, and put it straight back into the river.

Wow I just imagined people seeing you pull that shark out and being like oh wow look at that good thing they're taking it out of the... oh shit.

[clutch-monkey]

Wow I just imagined people seeing you pull that shark out and being like oh wow look at that good thing they're taking it out of the... oh shit.

wish i had a camera zoomed in on their faces... realistically the shark was no danger to anyone, but still big enough to alarm people!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Just watched a show about bulls in some river in South Africa last night, and these were BIG like 500+ lbs (sorry 225kg+) and 9 feet long (sorry again 3m).

Seems there has never been a human attack, and they think its because the sharks have plenty of fish to eat, they steal them from fisherman as the reel them it. The sharks were actually shadowing fishing boats.

here it is
http://animal.discovery.com/fish/riv...rs/bull-shark/

thanks for the link, will watch it when i get home.. i find sharks very interesting :)

[bataangpinoy]

coconut crab is great :)

[tg318is]

hahaha fuck you bird

[Reap3r]

if you look up their relatives the 'robber crab' - there have been instances of them dragging rubbish bins, camp supplies and - wait for it - barbecues into the sea (hence the name robber crab i guess). so they've already started!

Like to see them try to steal my bbq and drag it into the fucking sea. It weighs more than my fucking car.

[Heysüß]

I had to look one of these threads up but since there's more than one I figured I'd share it twice.

I was cleaning my dog's house and when I moved it to see how dead the grass was underneath it, I figured I'd flip the house and rinse it on the bottom as well (It's one of those plastic igloo ones). When I did I saw two big fuckers crawling away as fast as possible and while I was screaming like a little girl my eyes had enough time to focus and realize that there was a bunch of little baby lucifiers crawling away too.

I looked 'em up and turns out they were black widows. While I was cautiously putting everything back together another black widow (smaller) was crawling through the grass and I grabbed my acetylene torch and burned it back to hell.

Pictures of the spawns of satan coming up soon.

[Sailor37]

A few years ago, I worked at shop that made black 4" corrugated plastic drain piping that you can buy at Lowe's. We had stacks of it out in the yard that hadn't been touched in months, and one day we got to moving some of that pipe around, and you wouldn't believe the number of black widows up inside just about every single joint of pipe (and there were hundreds of joints).

Everyone was scared to be digging around and handling that stuff with all them creepy crawly little shiny ass spiders friggin everywhere! Before that I had only seen maybe one or two, but we were seeing them a dozen at a time in those stacks.

The boss at the time was kind of like "just put some gloves on, and you'll be alright." He was always the kind that would go the easiest, cheapest way, and it would always be more difficult in the end for him.

One of the guys eventually got bit on the forearm and didn't bother telling anybody, and about 20 minutes later, his arm was swollen up like John Holmes, and was sweating like a hooker in church. I saw him and the yard, and told him he should think about getting that looked at. They took him into town and got a shot which fixed him up.

I forgot how we ended up handling that pipe afterwards, but now, everytime i see a stack of pipe, i'm looking before i'm touching.

[cale]

I always look before I touch big black pip....wait a minute.