Ok, so I'm driving to work this morning and i drop my sun visor and a big nasty spider falls down on my steering wheel and is sitting there staring at me, I roll down the window and tried to flick him out and I miss and he ends up on my leg(i was wearing shorts) I'm trying to get him off of me and almost run off in a ditch. Still haven't found him.

 

well looks like he'll be back for more action on your way home be thankful it wasn't a snake. If it were me and a snake i'd flick myself out the window

 

A few years ago I brought home a parts car, parked it in my pole barn with a few other collector cars. A few days later I go in the pole barn, there are small spiders all over EVERYTHING....tools, cars, lifts, rafters. The car I brought home had been sitting outside and was infested with spiders.



I backed out, went to the store, purchased 3 bug bombs, set them off in the garage and closed it up for a few days.

No more spiders.

 

LOL... Sounds like someone was a lil scared of the spider.. I would have just smashed him on my steering wheel.. Buh bye spider man

 

Depends on the size..........I would egress my vehicle in one heck of a hurry of one of these dropped into my lap.

http://www.camelspiders.net/large-ca...er-picture.htm

 

Oh I've ran across those things.. 2 tours in Iraq.. They are freaky.. I had a soldier discharge his M4 in a tent because one was in his sack and he freaked out.. Lets just say that kid never had ammo in the tent again!

I'll be glad to never see one.. Yes those things can jump.. Tho not very far but they can jump.. And boy do they bite the hell out of you.. Like that website says, they are very aggressive.. most times a spider will run from you.. Not this critter.. He'll come after you..

 

I had one of these episodes about a month ago. After transporting a flat of plants on the back load floor, a spider must have decided to get cumfy in the truck. I'm doing 75mph on the highway and I feel something crawling pretty quick up the back of my neck, over my head and down my face. Needless to say he was a quick little sucker and the truck was doing a little weaving as I was trying to smash him. He lost and I managed to keep it on the road.

 

Hey Storm, how are things up in that part of the country? I saw this morning the're expecting lake Travis to hit 699 ft. Thats terrible for all those people up your way. We're praying for you guys.

 

Spiders don't bother me but like Scottie said if it had been a snake, I would need a new truck. I would have ran off the road and probably burnt the truck to the ground. Once had a snake crawl out from under the dash of a parts truck I drug home. Freaked me out.

 

Way back in 'nam, so the story goes, there was this Air Force F-4 Phantom pilot type who no one liked. Someone put a snake in the cockpit ducting of his plane shortly before takeoff.

After the pilot took off, a snake dropped out of the duct and onto his feet. Mr. Pilot decided to un-*** the plane ASAP (a cockpit being the wrong place to exist with a snake) and pulled the ejection seat curtain......well, as you may know them old F-4 Phantoms had 2 seats in the cockpit. The rear seat guy (AKA FGB or F'ing Guy in Back) was unaware of what had happened in the front seat. He has settled in and was filling out his paperwork, as a good FGB should do. What you probably don't know about the F-4 Phantom is that when the front seat guy punches out, it sends the BACK SEAT out first, so the poor guy in back doesn't get deep fried by the blast from the front seat. Also, just before you get ejected, the seat tighets the straps that go to your legs and arms, pulling them to the seat....most unfortunate of you don't know it is coming.

Mr. FGB ended up with a broken back and a 100% disability for that little stunt.

 

I only have one thing to say.

Next time, PULL OVER first, you ninny!

 

That was freaking funny I'da smash his a$$

I remember in Kuwait, we were chasing a big camel spider around the hanger, so we could put him in the ring with a scorpion we caught earlier. They didn't do anything that night, so the next day we checked and they were both dead.

Used to do the same thing with black widows. What Marines do whe nwe get bored hehe.

On a lighter note- about three years ago, my sister was driving my (at the time) 6 yr old daughter somewhere, and a spider fell off the headliner in her Focus, right into her eye. Well while she was trying to fight the thing off, she failed to notice the bumperless Cherokee stopped at the light and rear ended him doing around 30 mph, totalled the Focus. Thank fully everyone was ok, just a little shaken up.

 

Spiders don't bother me much unless they bite. We have those ugly wood-spiders around here that can be about four inches. I run into them when I cut firewood-don't think they bite but they look mean!

Anyway, my fear is(are) bees and hornets. A few summers back we had a windstorm one night and the next day I jumped on my 4 wheeler to check my buildings for missing shingles and wind damage.

A branch about 10" round had fallen out of a tree across a trail and I ran over it and made a mental to come back with a saw to move it. Here there was a hornet's nest in the branch about the size of a watermelon and I busted it wide open. I saw it out of the corner of my eye and for some dumb reason I sorta slowed up and looked back at it.

I think my wife counted 37 stings and they were those big black and white *******s that chase you. I gunned the throttle and they chased me for at least 50 yards. Mostly around the ankles but a few got down my shirt and nailed my back and one drilled me right on top of my head.

I get stung often but not that many times at once. I was puking and dizzy. My wife talked me into going to the ER but I wasn't allergic to them-the docs said I just got enough venom in me that I was sick from it.

That night I paid them nest a second vist. This time I took a half gallon of gasoline, a lighter and a 10' bean pole with a rag on the end.

 

Great story- had me laughin to almost wake up the old lady

 

yeah im the same way about bees....i was in my old truck and 2 yellow jackets come crawling out from inbetween the dash and the winshield...i sort of just kept an eye on them as i was driving down the road with cars behind me....well i hoped they would just fly out the window, but obviously that wasnt the case... they started to buzz around up around the windshield and thats when i said enough was enough...i slowed down and stopped the truck...it was a type of road that the shouldder was really small and a ditch right next to the road...i got as far over as possible and got out and the guy behind me though i was drunk because i was hanging out the passenger door beeting the windshield with my owners manual....mind you traffic was coming in the opposite direction and the people behind me couldnt pass...the guy behind me yelled out the window some f bombs and told me to get the ***** out of the way i gave him the finger and spent the next 5 minutes trying to kill a bee...i got the 1st, the second one i forced back down in the crack and i never found him since....needless to say i got my new f250 about a month later...coincedence...??? probably not