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Title: Found something interesting while working
Post by: muebe on August 11, 2013, 05:28:51 PM: I was working yesterday at a bank owned repo house and when I walked into the kitchen I found this creepy collection of bottles on the counter...

(http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx169/muebe/Album%202/20130810_081212_zpsed72c328.jpg)

Upon a closer look I found that this one was still alive...

(http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx169/muebe/Album%202/20130810_081315_zps674dc389.jpg)

At first I thought it was the biggest Black Widow I have ever seen but it did not have an hourglass on the belly and it was really big! And no I did not take it home with me :o
Title: Re: Found something interesting while working
Post by: UWFSAE on August 11, 2013, 05:43:21 PM: There's only one way to fix that ...

(http://www.slapcaption.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Fire-Caused-By-Spider.png)
Title: Re: Found something interesting while working
Post by: smokeasaurus on August 11, 2013, 06:08:39 PM: I wouldn't go back in that house...maybe the tenants are still there..... ???
Title: Re: Found something interesting while working
Post by: muebe on August 11, 2013, 06:29:59 PM: Quote from: smokeasaurus on August 11, 2013, 06:08:39 PM
I wouldn't go back in that house...maybe the tenants are still there..... ???

No it was empty except for the critters ???
Title: Re: Found something interesting while working
Post by: teesquare on August 11, 2013, 07:05:00 PM: Buffalo Bill's (from Silence of the Lambs...) old digs?
Title: Re: Found something interesting while working
Post by: pz on August 11, 2013, 07:09:15 PM: Reminds me of a friend I had when I was a teen. I'd go over to his house and he had two Styrofoam cups on his window sill - when I looked in I found fly heads in one, and their bodies in another. I asked him the story, and he said that he liked to cut off fly heads with a razor blade and then collect the heads and bodies separately.

You know what is truly frightening? Today he is a psychiatrist practicing in Los Angeles.
Title: Re: Found something interesting while working
Post by: muebe on August 11, 2013, 08:20:20 PM: Found a link where someone found one. This is the same spider for sure...

http://bugguide.net/node/view/273695

It is called a Black House Spider.

And this person is crazy! They actually picked one up! Their bite is venomous but not deadly. No thanks :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kqvHOTObvk
Title: Re: Found something interesting while working
Post by: Jaxon on August 11, 2013, 09:28:30 PM: Looks like the Black Widow's boyfriend

He doesn't have an hour glass OR a watch
Title: Re: Found something interesting while working
Post by: sliding_billy on August 12, 2013, 05:02:09 AM: What a bizarre thread. ???
Title: Re: Found something interesting while working
Post by: Keymaster on August 12, 2013, 08:00:51 AM: I don't like spiders. Got bit by a brown recluse onced. Arm swelled up the size of my leg and took six months to heal.
Title: Re: Found something interesting while working
Post by: smoker pete on August 12, 2013, 10:38:25 AM: Quote from: UWFSAE on August 11, 2013, 05:43:21 PM
There's only one way to fix that ...

(http://www.slapcaption.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Fire-Caused-By-Spider.png)

X 2 !!!! I know, I know ... I'm a puss but when I see a spider I call my wife to kill it :-[
Title: Re: Found something interesting while working
Post by: pz on August 12, 2013, 01:42:37 PM: Quote from: smoker pete on August 12, 2013, 10:38:25 AM
X 2 !!!! I know, I know ... I'm a puss but when I see a spider I call my wife to kill it :-[

I fully understand; my youngest son is the same way. When asked why he fears spiders and not other insects, he replied that it is because spiders have 8 legs rather than 6. Evidently the two extra legs makes all the difference ;D