My intolerance of anything that flies with a stinger attached to it’s back end is well-documented here. I’m fine with bees and wasps when they are at a distance doing their own thing. I am not okay with a big-ass carpenter bee, a naturally curious and normally docile bee, flying up to within a foot of my face to investigate the new creature. I’m sure it’s highly puzzled when the creature that’s 100 times it’s own size proceeds to bolt in the opposite direction screaming the kinds of obscenities that would raise Andrew Dice Clay’s eyebrows. But the owner of this car in Australia might just have a trump card on me: while driving down the road, he just so happened to look up at his A-pillar and realized he was waaaay too close for comfort with a venomous Huntsman spider.
…why the hell are you holding onto the spider?!
According to the driver:
I was driving the other day when I looked up and saw this………… I don’t know who was scaredest, me, it, or the cars in the left hand lane, that I hand brake skidded to a stop in between ……
Unless you punched that spider right in the face, mate, I’ll assume the damage done to the seat would indicate you were more scared. Traffic at that point becomes an afterthought.
(Thanks to Moparts member OzHemi for the tip!)
Gotta remember the Aussie cars are right hand drive too, so that would be right on top of him. While nowhere near the biggest example of a huntsman, that’s plenty big enough to have you diving for the backseat at 50mph! They are fast bastards too, I’m amazed he was able to get it out and actually coax it onto his hand without getting chomped!
My story of a Huntsman goes like this; I was in my HR (Holden) wagon and happened to come across a pile of HR parts that had been dumped near a tip gate (rubbish dump). Amongst the bits was a HR tailgate with a widow regulator in it that was better than mine so into the back of the wagon it went.
A few miles down the road the two girls that were in the back seat start screaming, I look back to see what the problem could be and see a Huntsman on the roof lining between their heads, I stopped and they dived out of the back seat, my mate and I fell out of the front seat laughing!
They are venomous but like most spiders only bite people if pissed off.
Caption? “Why I burned my car to the ground on the way to work!”
I think I will pass on holding one of those
The Huntsman spider……….or #417 of things that will kill yo ass in Auz
I Think I’d be hitting that thing with something big and heavy instead of holding it.
I’m not scared of spiders or snakes. That’s because when I see one I kill it.
the huntsman is only mildly venomous a single bit is not gonna put your life in danger other then be moderately painfull with swealing if left untreated
repeated bites will result in nausea,vomiting,mild neurological effects
but unless you have been bitten several times its not life threatening
if you have been bitten repeatedly seek medical attention ASAP
they aren’t overly aggressive spiders either unless you disturb a female near her eggs/babies
they can be easily handled so long as you aren’t a dumbass
Nope!
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