Crazy Giant Tarantula

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edited September 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I was rock climbing the other day and a huge tarantula (about 4.5 inches across) came at me. I was hanging on the side of the hill when this spider came running out if it's hole about 2 feet from me. It was fairly aggressive... and considering I was on a steep incline, and in no way able to run away.. I had to beat it back with a stick.:cool:haha

I took some pics with my camera phone. Obviously they didn't come out very well.. but you'll atleast see it.


http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn156/westside43/tarantula1.jpg
This is the best shot of it.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn156/westside43/tarantula2.jpg
He's at the very top of the picture.. fangs out and about to charge me!:eek:
Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
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  • gobrowns19
    gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    WOW....that makes me shiver in fear. I would unhook and fall to the ground if that happened to me.
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  • tylerpjtx
    tylerpjtx Posts: 201
    that spider needs to chill
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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    :eek:
    I would've died.

    Last night I was cleaning some stuff and took a pillow off the fireplace hearth and looked down and on my white shirt was a huge wolf spider. :eek: I think that is what it was.
    I freaked!
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    I was bit by a spider a couple years ago. My arm swelled up so badly that I had to go to urgent care. I was supposed to go out of town and the doc insisted I stay home as he wanted to see me back the very next day. I was on hard-core antibiotics and pain meds. Eventually the swelling went down but not for weeks!

    Oh, but my point...spiders still to this day DON'T scare me. I'm fine with them! Reptiles on the other hand... :eek: <shivers>
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  • itsevobaby
    itsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    fuck that :eek: i would've chosen death
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  • Trailer
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    gobrowns19 wrote:
    WOW....that makes me shiver in fear. I would unhook and fall to the ground if that happened to me.

    Yeah, it scared the shit out of me... it was completely the last thing I thought I was going to come across at that moment!
    tylerpjtx wrote:
    that spider needs to chill

    haha.. that's EXACTLY what I was thinking:D
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • Trailer
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    TrixieCat wrote:
    :eek:
    I would've died.

    Last night I was cleaning some stuff and took a pillow off the fireplace hearth and looked down and on my white shirt was a huge wolf spider. :eek: I think that is what it was.
    I freaked!

    I remember visting my grandparents when I was little.. I was down in their basement playing monopoly with my sister. All of a sudden a wolf spider came running out of these boxes, bit my hand, and then ran back into the boxes:eek: I remember it really hurting, and since I was only like 8 or 9, I freaked out. I've hated those spiders ever since
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Trailer wrote:
    I remember visting my grandparents when I was little.. I was down in their basement playing monopoly with my sister. All of a sudden a wolf spider came running out of these boxes, bit my hand, and then ran back into the boxes:eek: I remember it really hurting, and since I was only like 8 or 9, I freaked out. I've hated those spiders ever since


    Aww...he was just saying hi!! :o
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  • BinGnarly
    BinGnarly Posts: 508
    Some of you might remember my ear infection thread. Turns out it wasn't an ear infection but a spider bite. Not just one bite either I had three separate bites. One on my neck, one in my ear and one on the top of head. It caused my ear to blow up and puss and there was a lot of pain. Finally four weeks after the bite its healing. Its turned into three little scabs on my ear. But I still have a thing for house spiders even though it was a common high spider that bit me. But a spider that size. Fuck that you wont catch me near that.
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  • Trailer
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    AmentsChick wrote:
    I was bit by a spider a couple years ago. My arm swelled up so badly that I had to go to urgent care. I was supposed to go out of town and the doc insisted I stay home as he wanted to see me back the very next day. I was on hard-core antibiotics and pain meds. Eventually the swelling went down but not for weeks!

    Oh, but my point...spiders still to this day DON'T scare me. I'm fine with them! Reptiles on the other hand... :eek: <shivers>

    I love reptiles.. but spiders are not my favorite. Walking through a spider web is one of the worst things that ALWAYS happens to me. I hate that feeling knowing that a spider could be somewhere on you!
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    ahhh! i feel your pain- i hate spiders!! i would have screamed!!
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Trailer wrote:
    I remember visting my grandparents when I was little.. I was down in their basement playing monopoly with my sister. All of a sudden a wolf spider came running out of these boxes, bit my hand, and then ran back into the boxes:eek: I remember it really hurting, and since I was only like 8 or 9, I freaked out. I've hated those spiders ever since
    :eek:
    They are nasty buggers.
    At least tarantulas are furry and could be misconstrued as cute, but not wolf spiders....they ooze evil.
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    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Trailer wrote:
    I love reptiles.. but spiders are not my favorite. Walking through a spider web is one of the worst things that ALWAYS happens to me. I hate that feeling knowing that a spider could be somewhere on you!
    OH yeah! I hate spider webs too! And I *ALWAYS* manage to walk into them. It doesn't freak me out in the sense that I feel like a spider could be on me...it freaks me out more that it's just sticky and icky.
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  • eyedclaar
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    TrixieCat wrote:
    :eek:
    They are nasty buggers.
    At least tarantulas are furry and could be misconstrued as cute, but not wolf spiders....they ooze evil.


    Hey now, lighten up on my 8-legged friends. Nothing with "wolf" in its name can be considered evil. Now, maybe if it was a Bush spider or something...

    Anyhoo, I didn't even know we had tarantulas in Idaho until one night my wife and I camped in Hell's Canyon. We just threw the bedding on the ground, no tent and went to sleep. The next morning, I am rolling up the bedding and right next to where my wife's shoulder/neck had been all night was the biggest wild spider I have ever seen in Idaho. It was thick and hairy and looked just like a tarantula. It was aggressive too. It reared up every time I pointed a stick at it.

    I found out later that sure enough, that is the only place in Idaho where they live. He was pretty cool but a little scary.
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  • Phantom Pain
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    TrixieCat wrote:
    :eek:
    I would've died.

    Last night I was cleaning some stuff and took a pillow off the fireplace hearth and looked down and on my white shirt was a huge wolf spider. :eek: I think that is what it was.
    I freaked!

    Anytime that happens you should immediately take your shirt off and throw it and take pics

    If you want to post pics I have a photobucket account

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  • eyedclaar
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    Phantom Pain wrote:
    Anytime that happens you should immediately take your shirt off and throw it and take pics

    If you want to post pics I have a photobucket account

    ;)

    Or at least splash yourself with a giant pitcher of water. Spiders hate that. Pics are still required though...
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    Phantom Pain wrote:
    Anytime that happens you should immediately take your shirt off and throw it and take pics

    If you want to post pics I have a photobucket account

    ;)

    LOL...that happened on an episode of LOST! :D
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  • Touchofgray16
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    When my girls were small and screaming about the errant spider that entered their bedrooms, I would remove the spiders from the house without fear. However, if that one was in their room, I think not !!!
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  • norm
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    It reared up every time I pointed a stick at it.


    well wouldn't you if you were being poked at?
  • Phantom Pain
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    Or at least splash yourself with a giant pitcher of water. Spiders hate that. Pics are still required though...

    Yes indeed

    Always wear white also...they hate white t-shirts with no bra
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