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There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:07 pm
by Cal
Brown Trousers time...
Spider forces family out of homeA soldier's family have been frightened out of their home by a spider thought to have been brought to Essex from Afghanistan in a kitbag.
Lorraine Griffiths and her three children have moved out of their house in Colchester, the RSPCA said.
They are refusing to return until the large sandy-coloured creature, thought to be a camel spider, is captured.
An RSPCA spokeswoman confirmed they had visited the house but failed to locate the creature.
"If it is the spider they believe it is, then normally they don't attack humans, but they could give a painful bite," the spokeswoman said.
Mrs Griffiths believes the spider got to the UK in a kitbag brought home in June by her husband, Rodney, 32, when he returned from Afghanistan.
He is now back there on a further tour of duty.
She said the spider was seen in her bedroom by her two elder children, aged 18 and 16, and an electrician working at their home.
"They identified the spider using the internet," she said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7585391.stmNice. I think even I might have a problem catching this one with a glass and bit of paper...
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:08 pm
by Mockmaster
I actually though Camel Spiders were supposed to be fake. I remember a picture of one doing the rounds that was about the size of a dog. I'm a little disappointed that they are actually much smaller.
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:09 pm
by bigcheez2k3
Cal wrote:"They identified the spider using the internet," she said.
I had to read that bit twice.
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:10 pm
by bigcheez2k3
Also, Tragic is going to gooseberry fool himself, both from the picture and the thought that one of those is in his room.
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:11 pm
by Cal
Mockmaster wrote:I actually though Camel Spiders were supposed to be fake. I remember a picture of one doing the rounds that was about the size of a dog. I'm a little disappointed that they are actually much smaller.
They do grow a tad bit bigger - here's a lucky fella got two for the price of one...
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:12 pm
by Gandalf
10 legs???!!!
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:12 pm
by JV
I heard there is meant to be a bunch of these around the Leicester area, brought back the same way from Afghanistan.
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:14 pm
by Cuttooth
One of those in your bedroom would make for a pretty epic penisspider.
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:15 pm
by Thongings
"They identified the spider using the internet," she said.
Clever bugger.
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:16 pm
by Chris
Gandalf wrote:10 legs???!!!
Two of them are antennae, according to Wiki.
Click
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:17 pm
by Alvin Flummux
With global warming being the way it is, they might just set up permanent residence here.
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:18 pm
by Gandalf
And they can run up to 10mph?!
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:20 pm
by Mockmaster
Gandalf wrote:And they can run up to 10mph?!
They can also surf.
Where is your god now?
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:21 pm
by Cuttooth
Mockmaster wrote:Gandalf wrote:And they can run up to 10mph?!
They can also surf.
Where is your god now?
That's a pretty badass spider right there.
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:21 pm
by Nathanbrains
Did they really need to move out of their house? I mean, I hate spiders, but I'm not sure even that would be enough to drive me from my home.
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:22 pm
by Gandalf
Mockmaster wrote:Gandalf wrote:And they can run up to 10mph?!
They can also surf.
Where is your god now?
God? strawberry float that, size 10 Nike's will do the trick? Just Do It!
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:24 pm
by Hexx
Gandalf wrote:Mockmaster wrote:Gandalf wrote:And they can run up to 10mph?!
They can also surf.
Where is your god now?
God? strawberry float that, size 10 Nike's will do the trick? Just Do It!
Aww. What ickle feet you have.
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:25 pm
by Iron Nan
Saw this in the metro this monring, they had a really creepy side on pic of it. I'm normally okay with spiders and such but this is a really horrible looking thing. Apparently it posioned their dog too, the dog had to be put down a few days after confronting the spider in the kids bedroom.
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:27 pm
by Gandalf
IRON NAN wrote: Apparently it posioned their dog too, the dog had to be put down a few days after confronting the spider in the kids bedroom.
I heard it changed into this:
Re: There's A Camel Spider in Your Bedroom!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:27 pm
by Hexx
ARGHHHHHHHH