Got any spider stories?
I walked out my front door last night and right through a web. I turned around to inspect and found a big spider, bigger than a silver dollar right above the hole my head made. I mean yuck, I hate spiders and this was a close call. I went after it with a broom, knocked it down and stomped it and completely cleared out its web. Took a pic of it first tho, but don't have it to post cuz the wife has the camera somewhere. Anyway, at least it didn't kill a pet like the one in the story. I don't have a pet but still.
'Camel spider'. Reason enough not to go to that part of the world.
The only thing I don't get about this is why the Brit Army didn't send someone over to kill the thing for the wife of a trooper.
Afghan mega-spider bit dog to death
By JOHN TROUP
Published: 28 Aug 2008
A SOLDIER’S wife has told how her family quit their home after a spider from Afghanistan killed their dog.
Lorraine Griffiths, 37, said the creature appeared when Paratrooper hubby Rodney, 32, returned from Helmand.
Pooch Bella died after a bite from the huge camel spider which is still on the loose.
Care worker Lorraine said: “It was the size of a palm. I think it hitched a lift with my husband. He’s back out there now, but I’m petrified of spiders and I cannot live in that house until it’s gone.”
Lorraine has left the four-bedroom Army property in Colchester, Essex – with children Cassie, 18, Ricky, 16 and four-year-old Ellie-Rose – and is living with her mother.
She said: “Ricky was in my bedroom, went into the drawer under my bed and something crawled across his hand. He saw a huge spider and screamed to Cassie.
“They tried to corner it, but it was too big. They poked it with a coat hanger and the spider bit it.
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“The dog came in and barked. The spider hissed and Bella went running out whimpering.”
Eight-year-old Bella was taken ill after the encounter and had to be put down. The RSPCA and Army staff have been unable to find the invader – which can grow up to 6ins, run at up to 10mph and lives in desert regions. Iain Newby, of Essex’s Dangerous and Wild Animals Rescue Facility, said: “It’s venomous, but would not kill you.”
The Sun told in June how British soldier Graeme Boyd, 24, needed seven operations after being bitten by a camel spider in Iraq. His arm swelled to five times its normal size.
I walked out my front door last night and right through a web. I turned around to inspect and found a big spider, bigger than a silver dollar right above the hole my head made. I mean yuck, I hate spiders and this was a close call. I went after it with a broom, knocked it down and stomped it and completely cleared out its web. Took a pic of it first tho, but don't have it to post cuz the wife has the camera somewhere. Anyway, at least it didn't kill a pet like the one in the story. I don't have a pet but still.
'Camel spider'. Reason enough not to go to that part of the world.
The only thing I don't get about this is why the Brit Army didn't send someone over to kill the thing for the wife of a trooper.
Afghan mega-spider bit dog to death
By JOHN TROUP
Published: 28 Aug 2008
A SOLDIER’S wife has told how her family quit their home after a spider from Afghanistan killed their dog.
Lorraine Griffiths, 37, said the creature appeared when Paratrooper hubby Rodney, 32, returned from Helmand.
Pooch Bella died after a bite from the huge camel spider which is still on the loose.
Care worker Lorraine said: “It was the size of a palm. I think it hitched a lift with my husband. He’s back out there now, but I’m petrified of spiders and I cannot live in that house until it’s gone.”
Lorraine has left the four-bedroom Army property in Colchester, Essex – with children Cassie, 18, Ricky, 16 and four-year-old Ellie-Rose – and is living with her mother.
She said: “Ricky was in my bedroom, went into the drawer under my bed and something crawled across his hand. He saw a huge spider and screamed to Cassie.
“They tried to corner it, but it was too big. They poked it with a coat hanger and the spider bit it.
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“The dog came in and barked. The spider hissed and Bella went running out whimpering.”
Eight-year-old Bella was taken ill after the encounter and had to be put down. The RSPCA and Army staff have been unable to find the invader – which can grow up to 6ins, run at up to 10mph and lives in desert regions. Iain Newby, of Essex’s Dangerous and Wild Animals Rescue Facility, said: “It’s venomous, but would not kill you.”
The Sun told in June how British soldier Graeme Boyd, 24, needed seven operations after being bitten by a camel spider in Iraq. His arm swelled to five times its normal size.
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