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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: HeroHog on May 13, 2023, 05:33:07 AM
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Throw the car away, set fire to it, whatever works. >:D
I've had that happen a few times - I try to look at it as a test of my ability to remain calm during a crisis and not run the damn thing into a wall.
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Sort of like hot brass going down your shirt. Can you set the pistol down before reacting?
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Been remodeling my bathroom for the last forever, and in the last 24 hours I've had black widows and scorpions grace my company from the activity.
Should have saved pics of them for Amy.
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Okay, dumb question but, WHO is "Amy"?? ???
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^ See PM.
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Okay, dumb question but, WHO is "Amy"?? ???
I AM!! =D
Been remodeling my bathroom for the last forever, and in the last 24 hours I've had black widows and scorpions grace my company from the activity.
Should have saved pics of them for Amy.
No. I'm good. But you can leave your toys to me when those little creepy bast@ards eat you.
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7 or 8 years ago we had a big uptick in the number of blackwidow spiders around the area. My shop was full of them. I even found several at various work offices I travelled to.
The tipping point for me that initiated full on chemical warfare came while I was working on my M715. I had to change the right front brake backing plate. (getting one was an interesting evolution in itself)
Spent a couple of hours working pretty much blind with fingers and wrenches behind the plate between the plate and the leaf spring pack. When I finally get the plate off I see a big shiny blackwidow spider and her egg sac pretty much right where my fingers had been a few moments before.
I squished the spider and decided it would be OK to torch the egg sac. Grabbed a BBQ lighter and lit it up.
About 10,000,000 baby blackwidow spiders came boiling out of it, all over the truck and, all over me!
I expended a full can of brake cleaner killing the little monsters, I had the creepy crawlies for 3 days after that.
The next morning I went to war.
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Something tells me this would be unacceptable.
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This one is worse to me.
https://www.amazon.com/MOUMOUHOME-Tarantula-Bedding-Microfiber-Comforter/dp/B093DFFNV3/ref=asc_df_B093DFFNV3/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=563658290610&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4526818060344974078&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9059623&hvtargid=pla-1599213322681&psc=1
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Oh! Joo gonna die...
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Oh! Joo gonna die...
Just posting some products form Amazon.
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I squished the spider and decided it would be OK to torch the egg sac. Grabbed a BBQ lighter and lit it up.
About 10,000,000 baby blackwidow spiders came boiling out of it, all over the truck and, all over me!
I expended a full can of brake cleaner killing the little monsters, I had the creepy crawlies for 3 days after that.
The next morning I went to war.
Nope. Nope. Nope. I don't kill spiders anymore unless all body parts are well clear of any potential offspring.
Few years ago, was coming home one afternoon with Charlie on his leash and a drink in one hand, a bag of groceries and my house keys in the other. As I approached the door, I saw what I thought was a fiddler crab sitting square in front of it. On closer inspection, and while trying to keep Charlie from eating it, I saw it was a huge spider. And by huge, I don't mean "Amy's idea of huge" I mean huge by anyone's standard, at least two inches from front to rear. And fat. Having no free hands and nothing I could be sure would kill it in my hands, I had no choice but to step on it because I sure as hades wasn't going to risk it jumping on me as I stepped over it or let it eat my dog.
So I worked up my courage and stomped, which resulted in a sickening crunch, followed immediately by 10,000,000 babies swarming out from under my flip flop, across my toes, and spreading out from there in every direction.
Never. Again.
Not two weeks later, opened the same door and was about to step out when I saw another spider, roughly the same size, in the same spot. This time, I slipped on a pair of boots (just in case), grabbed my can of spider spray, and doused it good. Turns out, spider spray does not prevent the spontaneous birthing of 10,000,000 babies. But at least that time my feet were protected and I could slam the door.
I used the back door for two months after that.
As to you, HeroHog, watch your back.
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And of course, you shook out your boots before donning them.
I got out of the habit of doing that but it alwys seemed kike a good idea. Maybe I should start again.
Boy scout training. My Scoutmaster was a pretty savvy guy on outdoorsey stuff. He was a radioman during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Scorpions, if you live in an area where they live, ALWAYS check your shoes/boots!
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I shake out ALL closed shoes before putting them on.
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http://quoteapic.com/post/man-finds-huge-spider-hiding-inside-ear-muffs-after-feeling-tickle-in-his-ear/
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So I worked up my courage and stomped, which resulted in a sickening crunch, followed immediately by 10,000,000 babies swarming out from under my flip flop, across my toes, and spreading out from there in every direction.
Do you remember what happened to Dr. Smith in the movie remake of "Lost in Space"? That sounds like what you experienced. =D
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http://quoteapic.com/post/man-finds-huge-spider-hiding-inside-ear-muffs-after-feeling-tickle-in-his-ear/
You know, if you need a hobby, rather than scouring the webs for spider stories, maybe you could take up constructing art made from junk mail or dryer lint? Just a thought! :rofl:
Do you remember what happened to Dr. Smith in the movie remake of "Lost in Space"? That sounds like what you experienced. =D
I can't remember if I saw that, but now I'm fairly certain I don't need to!
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You know, if you need a hobby, rather than scouring the webs for spider stories, maybe you could take up constructing art made from junk mail or dryer lint? Just a thought! :rofl:
The advice about checking your footwear for spiders/scorpions triggered the memory of that particular article.
It is good advice. You can bet I check mine since seeing that! Putting on a helmet you haven't worn in a while applies here as well, especially a full-face one!
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Nothing quite like the excitement of figuring out that the bee is inside the veil.
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"As to you, HeroHog, watch your back. "
As of yesterday, an older man was seen sitting in a city park covered in sack cloth and ashes and chanting "I'm Sorry" over and over as he rended and tore the sack cloth while pouring more ashes upon his head while holding a large spider clutched between his big toe and 2nd toe.
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Not spider related, just exploring any other twitches we can get out of Amy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgROaJY6Xnk
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I can't remember if I saw that, but now I'm fairly certain I don't need to!
Yeah, Dr. Smith got "nicked" and all the "spiderlings" started pouring out. Mr. Robinson reminded the Dr. that "they eat their own". >:D mwahahahaha (evil mad scientist laugh)
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We have tarantulas at Lake of the Ozarks. And some of the are "pets" in the machine shop.
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We have tarantulas at Lake of the Ozarks. And some of the are "pets" in the machine shop.
We had several around our house in Arizona. One male would visit me from time to time in my garage while I was reloading.
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We had several around our house in Arizona. One male would visit me from time to time in my garage while I was reloading.
If you feed it they'll keep pestering you.
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Not spider related, just exploring any other twitches we can get out of Amy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgROaJY6Xnk
Euuu! Dude! Better a spider than that.
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About a week ago, I was in the reading room, nothing but slippers on my feet and my underpants down around my ankles. Out of the corner of my eye I caught a gimps of a shadow on the floor approaching me from the left. There it was. A scorpion about 2-1/2 inches long, claws to stinger. Yes, big enough to cast a shadow!
My feet being shackled by my skivvies, I had no way to stomp on it without launching myself off the throne. Since I was reading my "Guns" magazine, I realized I had a weapon in hand, I bent over and slammed it down on top of the scorpion and commenced to squishing it.
What a gooey mess! Cleanup wasn't pleasant, and it cost me a page out of the magazine.
Since then, I do check ANYTHING I wear prior to dawning it. I also scan the floors, room to room.
Woody
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I have 10 cats, anything that moves that's not one of the cats or myself gets quickly eliminated or at the very least brought to my attention if they're not sure about it.
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Not spider related, just exploring any other twitches we can get out of Amy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgROaJY6Xnk
Spiders are pretty much the only thing I won't willingly pick up and relocate. That said, that video makes me rather glad I'm not a Suriname sea toad.