Huge spiders found in Iraq by US soldiers

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Sharp-kun wrote:I need a pit full of those to drop my enemies in.
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They at least aren't spiders due to the fact that they don't have venom and they have more than eight legs, unless those are really nasty, bifurcurated pedipalps I'm seeing. It looks more like a whipscorpian than a spider.

As for no spiders tarantula size and larger having fatal venom, are you sure? I may be wrong, but isn't the australian funnel-web spider as big as a tarantula?

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Darth_Zod wrote:holy fuck that thing's big. i'd hate to meet one of those face to face. :?
It's not quite as big as it appears, look at the size of the soldier's sleeve for more appropriate scaling.
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Still it's a monster, and I'd surely waste the taxpayer's money on a few grenades for such a sonofabitch spider-thing.
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Rye wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:holy fuck that thing's big. i'd hate to meet one of those face to face. :?
It's not quite as big as it appears, look at the size of the soldier's sleeve for more appropriate scaling.
true, it's not huge huge, but for a spider that thing's still pretty fucking big
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:shock: Wonder if the commanders let their people shoot them? What else are you suppost to do if one of those things comes at ya?

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I have to agree with Howedar, I'd be using much tax money if I saw one of those. Many many bullets used for sure :kill:
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Squish it... squish it... squish it... SQUISH IT!!!

I'm not a full-blown arachnophobe, but I really DON'T like big spiders... and those are big spiders. I'd probably use a fucking grenade on those things... Maybe two grenades.
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Captain_Cyran wrote:Squish it... squish it... squish it... SQUISH IT!!!

I'm not a full-blown arachnophobe, but I really DON'T like big spiders... and those are big spiders. I'd probably use a fucking grenade on those things... Maybe two grenades.
Or some shotgun shots. Or a LAW. Or a tank shell. Or ... anything.
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Comosicus wrote:
Captain_Cyran wrote:Squish it... squish it... squish it... SQUISH IT!!!

I'm not a full-blown arachnophobe, but I really DON'T like big spiders... and those are big spiders. I'd probably use a fucking grenade on those things... Maybe two grenades.
Or some shotgun shots. Or a LAW. Or a tank shell. Or ... anything.
A nuke if it's handy...
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Psh, that holds nothing against the Clock Spider. It's coming to eat you...

Actually, clock spiders are actually very timid, and a helluva lot cuter than that psuedo-spider, psh.
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AnimeJet wrote:Psh, that holds nothing against the Clock Spider. It's coming to eat you...

Actually, clock spiders are actually very timid, and a helluva lot cuter than that psuedo-spider, psh.
I would hit that thing with a shotgun, then toss it in a fire, then piss on the ashes, then bury it 10 miles away from my house just to make sure...
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Captain_Cyran wrote:
AnimeJet wrote:Psh, that holds nothing against the Clock Spider. It's coming to eat you...

Actually, clock spiders are actually very timid, and a helluva lot cuter than that psuedo-spider, psh.
I would hit that thing with a shotgun, then toss it in a fire, then piss on the ashes, then bury it 10 miles away from my house just to make sure...
But it just wants some love! Look at it, its so cute.. its wants to give you a hug! :D
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AnimeJet wrote:
Captain_Cyran wrote:
AnimeJet wrote:Psh, that holds nothing against the Clock Spider. It's coming to eat you...

Actually, clock spiders are actually very timid, and a helluva lot cuter than that psuedo-spider, psh.
I would hit that thing with a shotgun, then toss it in a fire, then piss on the ashes, then bury it 10 miles away from my house just to make sure...
But it just wants some love! Look at it, its so cute.. its wants to give you a hug! :D
The only love it's gonna get is from the end of a shotgun barrel. Like I said before, I normally don't mind spiders and 90% of the time I'll pick it up on a piece of paper and move it outside with no fuss. When a spider gets to be bigger than my fist it's on the "Kill the fucking thing NOW" list.
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Bah, the only buggers we got here are black widows nasty, but not like those fuckers in Iraq :shock:
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Oh wait, that's two different spiders stuck together! For the longest time I was thinking that that was one huge centipede looking thing, which was why I was sure it wasn't a spider.

Those things are cute! I would love to have one as a pet, or maybe a dozen, and invite some arachnophobics over to eat. I could just imagine the zaniness that would occur as one scuttled across someone's foot in the middle of dinner.

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Genetically crossbreed them with a Tarantula and a water spider

Give Sharks a reason to be afraid....
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Like I needed another reason not to go to Iraq :shock:
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Here's a video of a scorpion getting its shit ruined by one of these things

Damn, man, I wouldn't want any part of one of these fuckers.
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Those things have huge fa... I mean pincers.
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The body feature that freaks me out the most is the suction cups. I mean, Jesus, how do you get that thing off of you?
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Joe wrote:The body feature that freaks me out the most is the suction cups. I mean, Jesus, how do you get that thing off of you?
Maybe if you got it sexually aroused....
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Solauren wrote:Genetically crossbreed them with a Tarantula and a water spider

Give Sharks a reason to be afraid....
If you want the ultimate killing machine, replace the water spider with a funnel web~ Bone piercing fangs and lethal venom, hallo thar?
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Bugs don't usually bother me, but I don't like that thing. I'd need both of my size 12s to kill one of those fuckers...
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Jezus Christ! Is that a facehugger? :shock:

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