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post #1 of 36
4/7/04 at 7:28pm
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CAMEL SPIDERS:

They pull hair off of humans and animals to make there nests!
They live in the deserts of Iraq.
Footage of the beasts can be found here.
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post #2 of 36
4/7/04 at 7:31pm
Holy Fuck is right. They should have had some of those in Arachophobia.
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post #3 of 36
4/7/04 at 7:39pm
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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post #4 of 36
4/7/04 at 7:51pm
Looks like the handywork of Bill Johnson.
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post #5 of 36
4/7/04 at 7:55pm
that movie is scary
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post #6 of 36
4/7/04 at 8:05pm
How big are those fuckers?
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post #7 of 36
4/7/04 at 8:20pm
They can also run 30mph, flip over a Humvee, eat your face, spit poison and perform a tax audit.
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post #8 of 36
4/7/04 at 8:23pm
They already made a movie about those.......its called Alien
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post #9 of 36
4/7/04 at 8:27pm
Quote:
Originally posted by soultaker
They can also run 30mph, flip over a Humvee, eat your face, spit poison and perform a tax audit.


BBrrrrrrrr - tax audits.........

Goddamn I hate spiders......
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post #10 of 36
4/8/04 at 1:48am
*shriek* I'm not afraid of spiders but that puppy would be the source of instant arachnaphobia(?). *shudders*
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post #11 of 36
4/8/04 at 2:03am
I don't care how irrational this statement is, but every spider on this planet needs to be eradicated. Except for daddy long legs. Keep them around to eat the other bugs, but get rid of all the rest.

There.
My sissified fears are now public, thanks to that fucking picture.
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post #12 of 36
4/8/04 at 2:10am
Someone please tell me exactly where these things can be found, so I will never ever ever ever ever ever EVER go there.

i think im freaking out :|
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post #13 of 36
4/8/04 at 2:15am
They say their in Iraq. So don't join the military or you might be assign there. Which this get me another excuse not join the military.
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post #14 of 36
4/8/04 at 2:18am
Btw are there bird spiders in South America post to be these size or a little bigger?
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post #15 of 36
4/8/04 at 2:29am
Australia has the deadliest spider and they're also common spiders that most people have on their properties. That's enough for me not to go there either. If fact, what's with all the unique species of animals in that part of the world? It's like fucking Monster Island down there. If Godzilla or Mothra exist, they're Aussies.
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post #16 of 36
4/8/04 at 3:17am
Hell... I'm supposed to be moving to Australia next year for school, the northern territories. Probly the worst spot for spiders in Aussie-land too, I'm assuming.
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post #17 of 36
4/8/04 at 3:44am
Apparently we have them in the U.S. too, but they're really not as bad as they look.


In reality, camel spiders aren't some mysterious Arabian creature -- we have them in the United States and in Mexico, where they are called matevenados. They are slightly smaller than the human hand, and while they do run quickly, their top speed is 10 miles per hour, not 25. But they also make no noise, they excrete no venom, and although they can be voracious nocturnal predators, they don't eat camels. They eat delicious crickets and pillbugs, and sometimes scorpions.
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post #18 of 36
4/8/04 at 6:59am
fuck me, that's crazy!
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post #19 of 36
4/8/04 at 8:01am
Ugh, I'm itchy all over now...they're creeping up on me.
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post #20 of 36
4/8/04 at 8:17am

One night in Arizona (true Story)

I had my window open in my computer room. The screen has a huge hole in the bottom. I'm surfing the net with the lights off with just the light of the moon filling have the room with a dull light. I notice something run on the wall flash by REAL fast. I look up and it looks lke a human hand is crawling on my wall. I just sat there and stared at it. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I got up and turned on the light and theres was that spider that is pictured at the beginning of this post. I had lived in AZ all my life and I had never seen anything like this before. My heart was pumping cause I fucking HATE spiders. lol

Anyways I got a towel and caught it and let it go in my front yard. I told a bunch of people the next day and knowone believed me! after six long years I have identified my spider
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post #21 of 36
4/8/04 at 9:39am
i would have run out of that room and never went in again!
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post #22 of 36
4/8/04 at 10:29am
Quote:
Originally posted by Sacrilicious Supersucker
I don't care how irrational this statement is, but every spider on this planet needs to be eradicated. Except for daddy long legs. Keep them around to eat the other bugs, but get rid of all the rest.
Here here! Let's get started, got a lotta work to do....


Johnny showed me this last night, knowing full well my hatred of these vomitous creatures and the first thing I thought of was Alien, the second thing I thought of was "wow, my skin just twitched itself off my body in one piece, how strange...
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post #23 of 36
4/8/04 at 10:53am
Oh shit... must be nice for target practice....
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post #24 of 36
4/8/04 at 12:20pm
FYI: That's a pick of a live one hanging onto a dead one.

http://www.manningjames.com/pics/psa...%20spider1.jpg
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post #25 of 36
4/8/04 at 12:30pm
i saw a video of those bastards yesterday, if you piss one off and chases you down you are fucked
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post #26 of 36
4/8/04 at 12:59pm
The only explanation for the existence of a creature like that is that there is no God.
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post #27 of 36
4/8/04 at 1:24pm
My wife was in Costa Rica while she was in college -- and one place she stayed told her that if she saw the giant-ass tarantulas that live around there in her cabin room, it was not unusual. Take the broom provided and sweep them out your front door.

I would have dropped a rock on it, myself. After wetting my pants.....
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post #28 of 36
4/8/04 at 1:31pm
In a thread last year these Camel Spiders showed up. A Chewer who's name I cannot remember was in the first Gulf War and talked about them. When the soldiers got bored theywould put one of these critters in a container with a mouse and watch the spider take it out. I found that disturbing. Poor little Fifle.

Somewhere out there....OH GOD NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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post #29 of 36
4/8/04 at 4:18pm
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Found this on SNOPES.COM

From someone stationed in Baghdad. He was recently bitten by a camel spider which was hiding in his sleeping bag. I thought you'd like to see what a camel spider looks like. It'll give you a better idea of what our troops are dealing with. Enclosed is a picture of his friend holding up two spiders. Warning: not for the squeamish!

With a vertical leap that would make a pro basketball player weep with envy (they have to be able to jump up on to a camels stomach after all), they latch on and inject you with a local anesthesia so you can't feel it feeding on you. They eat flesh, not just suck out your juices like a normal spider.
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post #30 of 36
4/8/04 at 5:16pm
I just did a google search and found out the truth about these creepy critters:

Urban legends about the camel spider (properly termed a solpugid or solifugid) are as old as the proverbial hills, but they made a huge resurgence when vectored by American troops in Kuwait during Desert Storm. They're not quite as big as your hand (unless you're a five-year-old), and very shy and secretive. They do like to hide in the shadows, and they do run very, very quickly for a critter (they can reach about 10 MPH, the fastest known non-flying arthropod). They make no noise whatsoever, they have no venom whatsoever, and they do not eat flesh--they eat small desert arthropods like crickets and pillbugs. The rumors of their attacking camels, or crawling onto sleeping GIs' faces, apparently stem from one of two things, both of which may be true to some extent: (1) they may use hair to line their burrow when they are about to lay a batch of eggs, said hair being clipped from dead camels or other dead mammals (and a sleeping GI is not much different), and/or (2) dead camels are covered with flies.
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post #31 of 36
4/8/04 at 5:39pm
My dad to this day collects Black Widow and I was always scared that it would escape and kill someone in my family but over the years I've been tolerant of them and not scared of them. But this mofo....just thinking of it I get the shakes!!
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post #32 of 36
4/8/04 at 5:47pm
That is some scary shite. And I thought I knew about a lot of spiders. Not about these crazy camel killers, though.

10 mph?? If I see that thing coming towards me, I'm running like it's Judgement Day.
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post #33 of 36
4/9/04 at 5:12pm
It's been said before and now I'm saying it. I'm not scared of spiders but that fucker scares the shit out of me. I need to shower, I feel like it's on me. Christ.
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post #34 of 36
4/9/04 at 6:35pm
Quote:
Originally posted by Hellraiser666
Found this on SNOPES.COM

From someone stationed in Baghdad. He was recently bitten by a camel spider which was hiding in his sleeping bag. I thought you'd like to see what a camel spider looks like. It'll give you a better idea of what our troops are dealing with. Enclosed is a picture of his friend holding up two spiders. Warning: not for the squeamish!

With a vertical leap that would make a pro basketball player weep with envy (they have to be able to jump up on to a camels stomach after all), they latch on and inject you with a local anesthesia so you can't feel it feeding on you. They eat flesh, not just suck out your juices like a normal spider.
Read on.

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According to most spider experts, these claims are all false. Camel spiders (so named because, like camels, they can be found in sandy desert regions) grow to be moderately large (about a 5" leg span), but nowhere near as large as dinner plates; they can move very quickly in comparison to other arthropods (a top speed of maybe 10 MPH), but nothing close 25 MPH; they make no noise; and they capture prey without the use of either venom or anesthetic. Camel spiders rely on speed, stealth, and the (non-venomous) bite of powerful jaws to feed on small prey such as other arthropods (e.g., scorpions, crickets, pillbugs), lizards, and possibly mice or birds. They use only three pairs of legs in running; the frontmost pair (called pedipalpa) is held aloft and used in a similar manner to the antennae of insects. Camel spiders shun the sun and generally hide during the day, coming out at night to do their hunting.

Although whatever is depicted in the photograph above appears to be far too large for camel spiders, the creatures might just look unusually large because they were held close to the camera, creating an illusion of exaggerated size. However, since we don't know the source of the picture, we can't yet rule out the possibility that some other misdirection was involved (e.g., digital manipulation, a misdescription of what the photograph depicts, some soldiers goofing around with plastic figures or something else spider-shaped, etc.).
http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp#photo
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post #35 of 36
4/9/04 at 11:04pm
Ah, good ol' Snopes.

The designated driver at the all night internet kegger.
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post #36 of 36
4/10/04 at 10:47am
That's Snopes.com. Making you remember that there is nothing overly special about your world since 1999.

Still wouldn't want one of them fuckers in my sleepbag. God bless our troops for having to put up with that.
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