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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sundowner on June 04, 2012, 02:58:47 AM
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Weird I say...weird.
Regards,
Sun
SADIYA, India – A town in India has suddenly been overrun by swarms of venomous spiders, leaving two people dead after being bitten.
It may sound like a B-grade horror movie, but residents of the town of Sadiya, in Assam state, say that on the evening of May 8 as they were celebrating a Hindu festival swarms of spiders suddenly appeared and attacked them, The Times of India reported.
Over the next few days two people -- a man, Purnakanta Buragohain, and an unnamed school boy -- died after being bitten by the spiders. Scores more turned up at the town's hospital with spider bites.
Local resident Jintu Gogoi spent a day in the hospital complaining of excruciating pain and nausea after being bitten. He said weeks later his finger was still blackened and swollen.
District authorities are also panicking -- and they are considering spraying the town with the insecticide DDT.
Locals say the most terrifying aspect is that spiders appear in swarms and their behavior is highly aggressive.
"It leaps at anything that comes close. Some of the victims claimed the spider latched on to them after biting. If that is so, it needs to be dealt with carefully. The chelicerae and fangs of this critter are quite powerful," head of the department of life sciences at Dibrugarh University Dr. L.R. Saikia said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/03/2-people-dead-after-swarms-venomous-spiders-invade-indian-town/?test=latestnews#ixzz1woEAH4wP
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Weird I say...weird.
Regards,
Sun
SADIYA, India – A town in India has suddenly been overrun by swarms of venomous spiders, leaving two people dead after being bitten.
It may sound like a B-grade horror movie, but residents of the town of Sadiya, in Assam state, say that on the evening of May 8 as they were celebrating a Hindu festival swarms of spiders suddenly appeared and attacked them, The Times of India reported.
Over the next few days two people -- a man, Purnakanta Buragohain, and an unnamed school boy -- died after being bitten by the spiders. Scores more turned up at the town's hospital with spider bites.
Local resident Jintu Gogoi spent a day in the hospital complaining of excruciating pain and nausea after being bitten. He said weeks later his finger was still blackened and swollen.
District authorities are also panicking -- and they are considering spraying the town with the insecticide DDT.
Locals say the most terrifying aspect is that spiders appear in swarms and their behavior is highly aggressive.
"It leaps at anything that comes close. Some of the victims claimed the spider latched on to them after biting. If that is so, it needs to be dealt with carefully. The chelicerae and fangs of this critter are quite powerful," head of the department of life sciences at Dibrugarh University Dr. L.R. Saikia said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/03/2-people-dead-after-swarms-venomous-spiders-invade-indian-town/?test=latestnews#ixzz1woEAH4wP
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God no....I don't do spiders...at all.
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What is scarier than spiders?
Zombie spiders!!
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What is scarier than spiders?
Zombie spiders!!
from OUTERSPACE!! :old:
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from OUTERSPACE!! :old:
with lasers attached to their friggin heads!
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<-- Screams like a little girl and runs away... :O
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with lasers attached to their friggin heads!
Oh yeah cant believe I forgot about the friggin head lasers!!
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I'm fine with black widows but not tarantulas!!!
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I'm fine with black widows but not tarantulas!!!
:headscratch:
that is backasswards...there is not a tarantula in the world that can kill ya, hell most are so docile you can hold them.....
a Black widow on the other hand..... can kill ya.......and certainly wont let ya hold them.
I don't understand the thoughts of people...being afraid of something that you weigh.... what...... a thousand times more then?????
what is wrong with people today?
I should have been born 1000 years ago.....I am alone in a world full of people who have no spine...who jump and scream at something no bigger then the palm of their hand.......
people who run from the truth and hold tight to a lie....
are there any real men left in this world?
am I the last of my kind.....
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:headscratch:
that is backasswards...there is not a tarantula in the world that can kill ya, hell most are so docile you can hold them.....
a Black widow on the other hand..... can kill ya.......and certainly wont let ya hold them.
I don't understand the thoughts of people...being afraid of something that you weigh.... what...... a thousand times more then?????
what is wrong with people today?
I should have been born 1000 years ago.....I am alone in a world full of people who have no spine...who jump and scream at something no bigger then the palm of their hand.......
people who run from the truth and hold tight to a lie....
are there any real men left in this world?
am I the last of my kind.....
I only have a problem with hairy spiders with giant fangs, i'm fine with anything else, I love snakes :D
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:headscratch:
that is backasswards...there is not a tarantula in the world that can kill ya, hell most are so docile you can hold them.....
a Black widow on the other hand..... can kill ya.......and certainly wont let ya hold them.
I don't understand the thoughts of people...being afraid of something that you weigh.... what...... a thousand times more then?????
what is wrong with people today?
I should have been born 1000 years ago.....I am alone in a world full of people who have no spine...who jump and scream at something no bigger then the palm of their hand.......
people who run from the truth and hold tight to a lie....
are there any real men left in this world?
am I the last of my kind.....
I just don't like dealing with something that can kill me and me not realize I've been bitten until it's too late. :aok
I can live in the woods, sleep in a hole all that good stuff. I just don't like spiders. :uhoh :lol
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I only have a problem with hairy spiders with giant fangs, i'm fine with anything else, I love snakes :D
snakes are awesome.... so are tarantulas and Black widows and Parana's......hell all animals
one thing I always tell people who are afraid or disliking of certain animals
you ALWAYS know what they are....a tarantula will not pretend to be a rabbit to get close to you and befriend you to bite you....1000% you always KNOW what they are...people on the other hand.....there is a good chance they are not what they pretend to be.....
I just don't like dealing with something that can kill me and me not realize I've been bitten until it's too late. :aok
I can live in the woods, sleep in a hole all that good stuff. I just don't like spiders. :uhoh :lol
this world would be so much worse if not for spiders, it is against the rules to kill spiders in my house....we catch and release.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sz1j2Z7GQc :old:
I love spiders.
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This story is based on rumors. The man that died they think was bitten by a snake and then he was taken to some tribal faith healer. The teen that died... they can't find any bite marks and no one has said he was bitten by anything.
So far the spiders (10) that have been collected and turned in are terantulas which are common in the area. Five are being tested tobe sure.
I had a terantula when I was a kid. I played with him all the time. He was like a tank climbing over stuff. He never bit me but they can if you make them mad. They are not poisonous here in Texas.
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(http://images.starcraftmazter.net/4chan/animals/scary_spider.jpg)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sz1j2Z7GQc :old:
I love spiders.
:rofl
This story is based on rumors. The man that died they think was bitten by a snake and then he was taken to some tribal faith healer. The teen that died... they can't find any bite marks and no one has said he was bitten by anything.
So far the spiders (10) that have been collected and turned in are terantulas which are common in the area. Five are being tested tobe sure.
I had a terantula when I was a kid. I played with him all the time. He was like a tank climbing over stuff. He never bit me but they can if you make them mad. They are not poisonous here in Texas.
all tarantulas are poisonous.... yes even the ones in Texas :D...none are deadly to humans....barring of course the occasional allergic reaction
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:rofl
all tarantulas are poisonous.... yes even the ones in Texas :D...none are deadly to humans....barring of course the occasional allergic reaction
Yup should correct myself. No hazard to humans.
I handled my tarantula all the time
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I see a Spider regardless of Size, I scream like a girl and run the other way, not quite sure where I got a fear of spiders - never had any bad dreams or anything - I simply rather them dead (unless its a daddy long leg).
I see a DLL I just leave it alone as it only eats bugs and stuff, the rest? I find the nearest hair spray can and lighter.
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Yup should correct myself. No hazard to humans.
I handled my tarantula all the time
:D
owned a few over the years...my favorite is the stripped knee
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/giantwhitekneetarantula.jpg)
I see a Spider regardless of Size, I scream like a girl and run the other way, not quite sure where I got a fear of spiders - never had any bad dreams or anything - I simply rather them dead (unless its a daddy long leg).
I see a DLL I just leave it alone as it only eats bugs and stuff, the rest? I find the nearest hair spray can and lighter.
Daddy long leg supposedly has the most toxic venom off all spiders :rofl
fangs to small to puncture human flesh.....
Australia has the deadliest spider of them all.
whats up with that..... Australia kinda got the shaft...7 out of ten worlds deadliest snakes.... the deadliest spider...the deadliest reptile
one of the very few venomous mammals.....
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(http://images.starcraftmazter.net/4chan/animals/scary_spider.jpg)
:rofl :rofl
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I like turtles!
:D
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I like turtles!
:D
Alligator snapping turtles :rock
awesome creatures
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I have heard the uticating (sp?) hairs on some tarantula's can be a problem if you handle them.
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I have heard the uticating (sp?) hairs on some tarantula's can be a problem if you handle them.
one of their defenses... they flick the hair into the eyes of would be predators....they are like tiny needles, so getting them on your skin is a very itchy situation, but nothing serious.
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Oops...Looks like rumors/prank has turned back into ugly black swarms. :bolt:
Photo at the link. (The photo is also a hyperlink to a larger view.)
Regards,
Sun
Spider invasion spooks Indian village
Panicked villagers in a remote Indian state complained Monday of an invasion of giant venomous spiders that resemble tarantulas but are unknown to local specialists.
Indian media said that a dozen people had been bitten and treated in hospital, with two unconfirmed deaths reported.
"Initially we thought it was a prank, but later on we saw swarms of this peculiar kind of spider biting people," Ranjit Das, a community elder in the town of Sadiya in the northeastern state of Assam, told AFP by telephone.
Authorities have swung into action by fogging and spraying insecticides in the area, 600 kilometres (370 miles) east of Assam's main city of Guwahati, and a team of scientists have been dispatched to investigate.
"We visited the spot and found it akin to the tarantula, but we are still not sure what this particular species is," said L.R. Saikia, a scientist from the department of life science of Dibrugarh University in Assam.
"It appears to be an aggressive spider with its fangs more powerful than the normal variety of house spiders," he told AFP.
http://news.yahoo.com/spider-invasion-spooks-indian-village-180444505.html
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The info is slowly "crawling" out of the remote region with a couple new closeup photos in this article.
Regards,
Sun
Colonies of giant, biting spiders are attacking villagers and causing painful swelling that frightened victims are dangerously draining themselves with razor blades in remote northeast India, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo)
Ecologist L.R. Saikia at Assam's Dibrugarh University said it may be a previously unknown species of tarantula. The spiders are roughly the size of a person's thumb.
"It looks like a new species. We haven't been able to identify it," he said Tuesday. Officials cannot use anti-venom in treating bite victims until the species is identified.
Meanwhile, villagers are keeping lamps on at night and standing guard against spiders entering their mud-and-thatch huts. There are about 100,000 villagers, mostly poor rice farmers, living in the area cut off from roads by the river.
Officials say the spiders are now also showing up south of the Brahmaputra.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/05/giant-hairy-spiders-spark-panic-in-northeast-india/?test=latestnews#ixzz1wx7KdkSd
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"If the Aussies don't get you, the Wildlife sure as hell will" - USMC Captain on Joint Forces Exercise Kangaroo 3, Shoal Water Bay, Australia.
Yes Ink... we got the shaft. Funnel-web spiders are lethal within 10 minutes of bite. 15 to 20 minutes if you are lucky.
Taipan. 15 minutes until you get antivenin, then certain death. If your bitten anywhere on the torso, no amount of anti-venom will save you.
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"If the Aussies don't get you, the Wildlife sure as hell will" - USMC Captain on Joint Forces Exercise Kangaroo 3, Shoal Water Bay, Australia.
Yes Ink... we got the shaft. Funnel-web spiders are lethal within 10 minutes of bite. 15 to 20 minutes if you are lucky.
Taipan. 15 minutes until you get antivenin, then certain death. If your bitten anywhere on the torso, no amount of anti-venom will save you.
I know its crazy.....That's why the English sent all their prisoners there :rofl (guessing that's why)
mean salamanders
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hahah well, As I have dual nationality (UK and Australia) and am technically both.
I will sit on the fence on that one :rofl
Taipans.... :noid
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Because spiders.
Language warning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc)
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(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/giantwhitekneetarantula.jpg)
:D
owned a few over the years...my favorite is the stripped knee
Daddy long leg supposedly has the most toxic venom off all spiders :rofl
fangs to small to puncture human flesh.....
Australia has the deadliest spider of them all.
whats up with that..... Australia kinda got the shaft...7 out of ten worlds deadliest snakes.... the deadliest spider...the deadliest reptile
one of the very few venomous mammals.....
Saw that image and said "oooooh,, that is pretty" Not afraid of spiders and I really do agree with ya that if I can squash it, I ain't askeerd of it :devil
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You'd be surprised at the people terrified of he little things. Arachnophobia. Both my wife and kid have it and its hard for me to understand. I have a few pet spiders I allow in the house to control the other bugs. The other night I heard terrified screams, so bad I jumped out of bed and grabbed my iron. I saw the both up on furnature :rofl cause some big, very big, kinda house spider had found its way into the house. Now this is a kid I'd taught to box, he'd been in fistfights, and hunted areas of the world with me with dangerous animals around and never flinched.
So I put down my peice, smashed the snot out of the spider with my fist, then the dog ate it and licked the floor, and I went back to bed laughing so hard I couldnt stop.
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(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/fieldsofink/giantwhitekneetarantula.jpg)
Saw that image and said "oooooh,, that is pretty" Not afraid of spiders and I really do agree with ya that if I can squash it, I ain't askeerd of it :devil
she is a beauty :aok
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hahah well, As I have dual nationality (UK and Australia) and am technically both.
I will sit on the fence on that one :rofl
Taipans.... :noid
Mulga............ :devil eats taipans for breakfast.... :D
:salute
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Aparently Texas is being overan by Chupacabras.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/texas-teenage-kills-chupacabra_n_904667.html