Australian spider catches mouse

[47of74]

Yikes;

theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/24/australia-giant-spider-mouse-carry-horrifying-impressive?CMP=fb_gu

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Australia’s litany of fearsome fauna seems to have a new entry. Added to deadly snakes, man-eating crocodiles and poisonous jellyfish comes Hermie the huntsman, a spider so unusually large and strong that it had no problem carrying a sizeable mouse up the outside of a fridge.

Hermie’s feat was captured on film by Jason Wormal, a tradesman from Coppabella in Queensland, who was heading out to work in the early hours of Monday morning when he says he received an offer from a neighbour that he couldn’t refuse.

“So I am just about to leave for work about 0030 and me neighbour says ‘You want to see something cool’ and I say ‘Hell yeah’, he wrote on Facebook.

“So we proceed to his place and he shows me this. Huntsman trying to eat a mouse.”

 

I thought it was a spider Bart Simpson took down to Australia, but remembered just now it was a frog.

[Gossamer1]

This does NOT belong in "Pets & Animals". We need a new thread called "Scary Friggin' Monsters & Other Things That Cause Nightmares "!

[Khan]

I thought I heard a mouse in my back pantry. Perhaps this adorable fellow rents his services?

[JMO]

If I saw that spider in my house I would have to burn it all!  I don't mind little spiders but this is a f@#^ing monster.  Right out of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. 

[VooDooChild]

This just put my I-Want-To-Travel-The-World daughter off of ever wanting to visit Australia.  @JMO  I'd have to torch my place too.

 

I'm going to send this to my husband.  He has a phobia, and this should sufficiently creep him out.  Hehe.  It's Halloween.  And I love him.  

[Fascinated]

Luckily the 'play' button covers most of this monstrosity. I cannot and will not press that play button.  Not least because then I would almost be touching the spider.

Here is a terrible-because-it's-cropped photo of my brave little grandson at his third birthday party yesterday.  (Also there were large snakes.)

Spoiler

 

[mango_fandango]

Just now, Fascinated said:

Luckily the 'play' button covers most of this monstrosity. I cannot and will not press that play button.  Not least because then I would almost be touching the spider.

Here is a terrible-because-it's-cropped photo of my brave little grandson at his third birthday party yesterday.  (Also there were large snakes.)

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Christ. I REALLY need to remember NOT to click spoilers on threads like these. 

Nightmares. 

[Fascinated]

3 minutes ago, mango_fandango said:

Christ. I REALLY need to remember NOT to click spoilers on threads like these. 

Nightmares. 

Sorry.  At least I did put the damn thing under a spoiler, though. I had to look at it in order to do so, which was not nice. 

[47of74]

1 hour ago, Gossamer1 said:

This does NOT belong in "Pets & Animals". We need a new thread called "Scary Friggin' Monsters & Other Things That Cause Nightmares "!

I was debating whether to put this in wild word of snark or here in pets & animals.

Yeah maybe we do need a monsters thread.  Where we can do the monster mash, the graveyard smash...

[mango_fandango]

27 minutes ago, Fascinated said:

Sorry.  At least I did put the damn thing under a spoiler, though. I had to look at it in order to do so, which was not nice. 

It's OK. It's not your fault.  

[LadyCrow1313]

I should hire this spider to get food for my snake.   

[Palimpsest]

40 minutes ago, LadyCrow1313 said:

 

I should hire this spider to get food for my snake.   

 

I haven't seen the spider video in question (shudders) and I'm getting much better about my snake phobia.  I'm sure they both make lovely pets.

That mental picture though.  

 

[47of74]

7 hours ago, Palimpsest said:

I haven't seen the spider video in question (shudders) and I'm getting much better about my snake phobia.  I'm sure they both make lovely pets.

That mental picture though.  

 

My sister hates that one scene in Superman II where the snake bites that nice lady in the black leather Kryptonian get-up.  And cheers when said snake does something stupid and gets cremated in the process.