RazMan
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 04:57 PM |
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If you like spiders, then buy a cactus
A true story and its source was the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service in Adelaide.
A bloke and his family were on holidays in the United States and went to Mexico for a week. An avid cactus fan, the man bought one-metre high, rare
and expensive cactus there. On arrival back home Australian Customs said it must be quarantined for 3 months.
He finally got his cactus home. Planted it in his backyard, and over time it grew to about 2 metres. One evening while watering his garden after a
warm spring day, he gave the cactus a light spray. He was amazed to see the plant shiver all over, he gave it another spray and it shivered again.
He was puzzled so he rang the council who put him on to the state gardens people. After a few transfers he got the state's foremost cactus expert
who asked him many questions. How tall is it? Has it flowered? Etc.
Finally he asked the most disturbing question. "Is your family in the house?" The bloke answered yes. The cactus expert said get out of the
house NOW, get on to the front nature strip and wait for me; I will be there in 20 minutes.
Fifteen minutes later, 2 fire trucks, 2 police cars and an ambulance came screaming around the corner. A fireman got out and asked "Are you the
bloke with the cactus?" I am, he said. A guy jumped out of the fire truck wearing what looked like a space suit, a breathing cylinder and mask
attached to what looked like a scuba backpack with a large hose attached. He headed for the backyard and turned a flame-thrower on the cactus spraying
it up and down.
After a few minutes the flame-thrower man stopped, the cactus stood smoking and spitting, half the fence was burnt and parts of the gardens were well
and truly scorched. Just then the cactus expert appeared and laid a calming hand on the bloke's shoulder. "What the hell's going
on?" he says. "Let me show you" says the cactus man. He went over to the cactus and picked away a crusty bit, the cactus was almost
entirely hollow and filled with tiger striped bird-eating tarantula spiders, each about the size of two hand spans.
The story was that this type of spider lays eggs in this type of cactus and they hatch and live in it as they grow to full size. When full size they
release themselves. The cactus just explodes and about 150 dinner plate sized hairy spiders are flung from it, dispersing everywhere. They had been
ready to pop. The aftermath was that the house and the adjoining houses had to be vacated and fumigated: police tape was put up outside the whole
area and no one was allowed in for two weeks.
And here's what one of the buggers looks like sitting on a FULL SIZE dinner plate…..
 
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Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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I love speed :-P
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 05:05 PM |
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If something on the internet starts with "a true story" you know its not 
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hoaxes/hoaxDetails.asp?HName=Spider+Explodes+Out+of+Cactus+Hoax
Don't Steal
The Government doesn’t like the competition
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cadebytiger
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 05:09 PM |
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Good god! That is getting mailed to all the girls i know (still some school boy in me )
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AdamR
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 05:13 PM |
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Great story, but I must p!ss on your fireworks I'm afraid:
http://www.snopes.com/
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Marlon
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 05:15 PM |
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I hope it's true,
I'll have to get myself one of those babys
I love spiders, they're fantastic creatures!
john
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Peteff
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 06:14 PM |
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We have one outside on our front window.
It eats cats so I'm leaving it there.
 
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yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Guinness
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 06:27 PM |
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I have a wing mirror spider.
I guess he's into extreme sports, 'cause he survives car washes, windspeeds in excess of 100 mph and his dinner must come at him very
fast!
Mike
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the_fbi
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 07:26 PM |
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I absolutely hate spiders and I must admit I took great pleasure when I found one on my exhaust manifold.
I'd just spent about an hour working on my Calibra's engine (forget what I was doing) but I suddenly saw this brown and orange spider
crawling over the turbo (exhaust side).
Started the engine and spent 5 minutes watching it run left/right trying to cool its feet down before it eventually turned a nasty shade of dead.
Was a hardy little sod.
I know that was cruel, but they are nasty nasty things 
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Peteff
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 07:55 PM |
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You callous b@stard I feed the one outside, she loves it when you throw a bluebottle onto the web.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Macbeast
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 08:19 PM |
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And tarantulas aren't particularly dangerous to humans. James Bond was just a girly wimp.
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StevieB
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 08:32 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Guinness
I have a wing mirror spider.
I guess he's into extreme sports, 'cause he survives car washes, windspeeds in excess of 100 mph and his dinner must come at him very
fast!
Mike
I have one of these too - the little b*****d is jet wash proof, no matter what I try to get him out of there!
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robertst
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| posted on 10/5/07 at 10:21 PM |
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jesus christ! im arachnophobic and just reading the story made me need to go get a cold shower!...
nothing else in this world makes me become more of a complete pussy than spiders. you can put a gun at me, i can have freddy kruger as a blind date...
whatever... just put a spider near me and i'll shriek like nothing u've ever seen !
Tom
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02GF74
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| posted on 11/5/07 at 07:40 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
You callous b@stard I feed the one outside, she loves it when you throw a bluebottle onto the web.
I used to do that as a kid; they can get quite big you know.
another was galdiator battles - spider vs wasp in a test tube, usually the spider won.
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James
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| posted on 11/5/07 at 10:20 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by robertst
jesus christ! im arachnophobic and just reading the story made me need to go get a cold shower!...
Bit like the shower scene in Arachnaphobia? Where the spider gets on the shower head and washes down the girl's chest?
Just take care next time you're in the shower!
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