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Screw It, Buy A New Car: Removing A Spider From The Door Handle


Screw It, Buy A New Car: Removing A Spider From The Door Handle

I know the picture isn’t great, but let me assure you that the footage is enough that I’ll have shivers up my spine for a week thinking about this. The owner of this HSV Maloo is trying to rid his passenger door handle of an unwanted guest. One with eight legs and the ability to royally screw up a human’s day. Remember, this is Australia…if it’s not a house pet, there’s a damn good chance that it can kill you. A quick blast of something from a can stirs up the arachnid, but the spider is rather reluctant to leave the safety and shade that the ute’s door handle offers. Eventually, though, the spider decides that a retreat is the best option and drops out just as the guy holding the camera tries to get a closer look.

You can say all that you want about spiders being beneficial to the environment and such until you’re blue in the face. Somebody had to try to open up the door to learn that Itsy-Bitsy was camping out there. Imagine if that was your hand…

(Courtesy: Carscoops)


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10 thoughts on “Screw It, Buy A New Car: Removing A Spider From The Door Handle

  1. Rob

    What a pair of PUSSIES – It looks like its just a huntsman and not a very big one either.

    The spider was more scared of them than they where of it – if that’s POSSIBLE. LOL

    1. John T

      Spot on Rob what a pair of sooks….bloody huntsman as well ! Pretty harmless and that ones a baby…I chased one a few months ago around the lounge about the size of a Volkswagen…well not that big but seriously 3, maybe 4 ” across? splattered it with a fist. Hows this? I was putting a gearbox back in my car a few years ago and you know when you wriggle yourself into a position under a car where you just cannot move quickly? Yeh that was me, hands are full of trying to wrestle the gearbox back in and if I just let it go it would either hit me in the head or at least hurt the clutch or input shaft… anyway, a big big redback dropped out of the car into my eye socket. So I closed my eye and waited….panicking was not on the cards , moving was out of the question and as I say my hands were full… had to wait for him to crawl off my face….but then I had no idea where he was, just under my head somewhere….so I had to just keep going with the gearbox….got it in, slid out – then jumped in the shower for a good 30 minutes shaking…..

        1. John T

          cheers Mooseface! unfortunately, common as muck where I live…they are a standard part of every barnfind type car, wrecking yard, hell I even have them under the sink in the laundry…I find that if you give them a full blooded punch they expire pretty quickly. The eastern states get funnelwebs too which are pretty scary suckers. When we lived in Western Australia my mum got bit on the ankle by some kind of spider, nearly killed her – she was sick and getting over it for 2 years. And if the spiders don’t kill ya, theres always the snakes….you can always jump in the ocean to avoid them but then you have to deal with the sharks. Don’t get me started on the drop bears!!!

      1. floating doc

        I don’t know what site I was reading, but I’ve read this story before. Worth repeating!

        1. John T

          I reckon I might have related it before too! As you say, its a story worth repeating..

  2. John T

    PS if you are not Australian maybe look up redbacks…..they are truly dangerous kill you type spiders….

  3. Chevy Hatin' Mad Geordie

    I once visited a friend whilst he was eating his dinner with a flaming great tarantula sitting on his head being fed tasty morsels of roast beef!

    I don’t think he would have screamed like a pussy at the sight of this midget – there again he drove a Fiat Spider……

    I’ll get me coat….

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