I've heard there were big spiders...

[jentzschman]

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=31901361&ni...ily-from-upscale-missouri-home&s_cid=queue-16


Only solution to this is a flame thrower

That is a real bummer for the owners. Once again, insurance companies at their best. I strangely dislike insurance companies.

 

[Kevin B.]

That is a real bummer for the owners. Once again, insurance companies at their best. I strangely dislike insurance companies.

I think the fraud that the previous owners are getting away with is more heinous.

 

[jentzschman]

I think the fraud that the previous owners are getting away with is more heinous.

Yes, I was going to offer a thought on that as well then got sidetracked...

4.5k-6k spiders in the house!!!!! That is insane. Such a rotten ordeal, I cannot even imagine what it must be like for that couple.

 

[locknloadfzj80]

Nothing a few cans of hair spray and a bbq lighter wouldn't have fixed.

 

[Spork]

I think the fraud that the previous owners are getting away with is more heinous.

Are you saying the previous owner was able to hide thousands of spiders from the new buyers? Did they have a home inspection? Was the home inspector incompetent? Or did they ignore the spiders because of house price?

 

[Kevin B.]

Are you saying the previous owner was able to hide thousands of spiders from the new buyers? Did they have a home inspection? Was the home inspector incompetent? Or did they ignore the spiders because of house price?

Just going off this part. I don't know any details, but it's probably fair to assume the jury asked those questions too?

The couple filed ... a lawsuit against the home's previous owners for not disclosing the brown recluse problem.

(snip)

The jury awarded the couple slightly more than $472,000, but the former owners declared bankruptcy...

 

[skiboarder]

For that many to be there, there must be something for them to eat. The previous owners must have done something to attract that many and keep them there.

 

[Spork]

For that many to be there, there must be something for them to eat. The previous owners must have done something to attract that many and keep them there.

I was thinking it's October and they live next to a golf course.

 

[skiboarder]

That's still a lot of biomass to feed. maybe if the golf coarse had a locust infestation. The again why only that house?

 

[Kevin B.]

I don't know what I found here.

I thought at first it was one of those sun spiders, I know we have them in Utah but I haven't seen one yet. After some Googleimaging though I'm not so sure. Anybody know what this is?

 

[Trate D]

I don't know what I found here.

I thought at first it was one of those sun spiders, I know we have them in Utah but I haven't seen one yet. After some Googleimaging though I'm not so sure. Anybody know what this is?

Looks like a woodlouse hunter. I found one like that last summer.

 

[Kevin B.]

I'd buy that, thanks! My wife is happy to hear that they're harmless.

 

[TRD270]

I find those in my traps in the basement all the time, good to know what they are

 

[TurboMinivan]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...ent-to-the-doctor-got-an-unnerving-diagnosis/

Man Found an Odd Mark on His Body. When It Grew, He Went to the Doctor & Got an Unnerving Diagnosis

An Australian man on vacation received an unnerving diagnosis this week after going to the doctor following the discovery of a strange mark on his stomach.

According to an Australian news outlet, Dylan Thomas woke up to find a bizarre red mark on his stomach. When it grew a few inches, the 21-year-old went to the Bali International Medical Center.

“So according to the doctors over here I’ve come down with some mystery condition,” he wrote on Facebook, attaching a photo of the strange mark. “Tad scary.”

Then his condition worsened.

“That’s when it became painful, it was a searing burn,” he told the Australian outlet.

After some investigating, Thomas said the doctors finally solved the mystery: a spider had burrowed itself inside his body through an appendix scar and had been living under his skin for three days.

“Well after running tests and putting things inside my stomach they finally found out it was a tropical spider that’s been living inside of me for the last 3 days, managed to get it out luckily,” he wrote on Facebook. “Haven’t felt so violated in my life before! Just glad it’s all over.”

Thomas said that doctors removed the spider by making a small incision in his skin and pulling it out.

“[It] was disgusting,” he wrote on Facebook.

 

[Kevin B.]

a spider had burrowed itself inside his body through an appendix scar and had been living under his skin for three days.

No.

Just no.

 

[TurboMinivan]

No.

Just no.

Snopes wants to disprove this story simply because it is so incredible, but they can find no evidence to prove it didn't happen. (They also cannot find much to support it, either.)

 

[MikeGyver]

So a spider tore itself through dense flesh, a hundred times its own body length... and the guy didn't feel excruciating pain? It doesn't matter how slowly something makes a hole through you, it's still going to hurt.

 

[TurboMinivan]

Thanks to FB, I just discovered the Goliath Birdeater, a member of the Tarantula family. It has a leg-span of up to eleven inches. Not a photoshop:

Remind me never to go hiking through any rainforests in northern South America.

 

[STAG]

 

[MikeGyver]

Goliath Birdeaters aren't gross and spidery though, they're cool, they're more like dogs lol. My g/f had one that was significantly bigger than my hand.