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Old 21-04-2016, 12:33 PM
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Damn Alex! Red backs are creepy bloody things. I don't mind if they stay outside, but inside no way, I dont want that crap crawling on my face in my sleep! If there is one there might be more - under the bed If I was in your position I would've screamed, swore and the previous evening's KFC hot n spicy would've exited the other end with more violence than Krakatoa.
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Old 21-04-2016, 12:51 PM
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I have had lots of interesting encounters with spiders.

I was working on a trail bike I had one night in an enclosed patio area (quite small) when I saw a palm sized Huntsman casually strolling toward me on the ground. I got up and thought if I stamp my foot in front of it, it will run away. To my amazement, it only move back about it’s own body length, turned back to face me, and then charged at me along the ground. It got to within about half a metre of my foot before I became the one being chased out of the room.

A few years ago I was under one of my (many at the time) project cars doing some work when I could feel something biting my leg. Having lots of ants around I thought that’s what it was. When I got out from under the car my leg was feeling a little sore so I pulled up my tracky pants leg to reveal a line of bite marks from my ankle to my knee, and much worse than what an ant might do. Upon further investigation I found the remains of a red back in my pants. It was really sore and swollen for a week or more and the first day or two, I was not feeling good at all.
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Old 22-04-2016, 07:17 AM
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Let me get this straight. You're an astronomer, you observe in the dark, you walk around observing fields in the dark, yet you use a light to walk around your own house. I'd have been in the dark and walked straight into the web.
Yeah, yeah... I know, I know...

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Alex mate, I almost wet myself laughing karma is a ...?
Oh, blast! YOU! of all people just HAD to see this thread...
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Old 22-04-2016, 10:10 AM
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Oh, blast! YOU! of all people just HAD to see this thread...
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Old 22-04-2016, 10:47 AM
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I did the whole flick and wave the arm frantically in random directions and jumped up from my chair !!!

You got to love the dance of the hairy spider, no two are the same.

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Old 22-04-2016, 01:49 PM
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I don't mind spiders & even spent a night in hospital when a Redback bit me on the neck. I had the anti venom and all was good. However I don't like standing around on warm nights when Joe Blake is about.
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Old 22-04-2016, 02:34 PM
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The spider dance is a thing to behold, I did a ripper of a spider dance when I rode up on my motorbike to work one morning, took off my gloves to discover a spider enjoying the warmth and darkness. The dance to shake it off must have been a sight to behold by some of my students who were at school early wondering why their teacher lost his mind.
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Old 25-04-2016, 05:13 PM
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Wow......that must have freaked you out Alex !!!!

I just read this entire thread, and now I have the heebie-jeebies.

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