Killer Spiders under Toilet Seats

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Killer Spiders under Toilet Seats

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Got this from my wife. She didn't provide a link:
Subject: Beware of Spiders



Three women in North Florida, turned up at hospitals over a 5-day period, all with the same symptoms. Fever, chills, and vomiting, followed by muscular collapse, paralysis, and finally, death. There were no outward signs of trauma. Autopsy results showed toxicity in the blood.

These women did not know each other, and seemed to have nothing in common. It was discovered, however, that they had all visited the same Restaurant (Olive Garden) within days of their deaths. The health department descended on the restaurant, shutting it down. The food, water, and air conditioning were all inspected and tested, to no avail.

The big break came when a waitress at the restaurant was rushed to the hospital with similar symptoms. She told doctors that she had been on vacation, and had only went to the restaurant to pick up her check.
She did not eat or drink while she was there, but had used the restroom.
That is when one toxicologist, remembering an article he had read, drove out to the restaurant, went into the restroom, and lifted the toilet seat.

Under the seat, out of normal view, was a small spider. The spider was captured and brought back to the lab, where it was determined to be the Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata), so named because of its reddened flesh color. This spider's venom is extremely toxic, but can take several days to take effect. They live in cold, dark, damp climates, and toilet rims provide just the right atmosphere.

Several days later a lawyer from Jacksonville showed up at a hospital emergency room. Before his death, he told the doctor, that he had been away on business, had taken a flight from Indonesia, changing planes in Singapore, before returning home. He did not visit (Olive Garden), while there. He did, as did all of the other victims, have what was determined to be a puncture wound, on his right buttock.

Investigators discovered that the flight he was on had originated in India. The Civilian Aeronautics Board (CAB) ordered an immediate inspection of the toilets of all flights from India, and discovered the Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata) spider's nests on 4 different planes!

It is now believed that these spiders can be anywhere in the country.

So please, before you use a public toilet, lift the seat to check for spiders. It can save your life!
And please pass this on to everyone you care about.
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:shock: "Shit"always look under the seat before you shit.
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Great, as if checking the tank for bombs didn't slow me down enough already. Luckily I rarely use public restrooms and even more rarely do I take a shit in them.
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*thanks lack-of-God [whoever said that, thanks, I'm using it from now on] for NOT living there*
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It's a hoax. The telmoania spider is a harmless jumping spider and the person who started this admitted it's a hoax and started another hoax before it. There're a site or two about it, but can't post link because cut and paste is another lovely function I've lost due to Microsoft's latest security patch.
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I thought so :P
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Sounds like the old story I heard about Exploding Cacti. Probably about as true too.
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I saw this on Snopes a few months ago, worth a giggle or two
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Sweet Monkey Jesus, that thing thing had me scared there. Thank Bob it's a hoax. I already have the large fear of small spiders (Brown Recluse), and I thought I had a second reason to fear them. :lol:

I'm gonna go sit over there now.
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Just great. The Monkey Butt Spider Hoax...
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Heh. That was kinda funny.
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Crazy Goji wrote:I already have the large fear of small spiders (Brown Recluse)
Hey man, its perfectly ok to have a healthy respect for the brown recluse. My mother got bit by one several years ago, and within hours after being bitten she could barely use her right leg (where she was bitten). I had to help her walk wherever she had to go for several days. (she got it treated the very next day after she was bitten) Luckily for me, I have a high tolerance for spider venom. I got bitten by that same species of spider when I was 11 while I was asleep (didn't even feel it) and all it did was leave a pink ring mark on my wrist. I had no feeling in that ring, but it never even hurt at all when I touched around it.
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Had me going 'til I saw the photos. I thought "Deadly jumping spiders? No way!".

In somewhat related news, I killed the BIGGEST Black Widow spider I've ever seen today! Gaaahhh! It was hideous!
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Frank Hipper wrote:Had me going 'til I saw the photos. I thought "Deadly jumping spiders? No way!".

In somewhat related news, I killed the BIGGEST Black Widow spider I've ever seen today! Gaaahhh! It was hideous!
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In some more somewhat related news, 4 feet away some form of spider with long legs is hanging upside down on a web whose silk is so fine it appears it is hovering in midair.

And I am sure glad that was a hoax, going to the bathroom is complicated enough as it is.
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Trytostaydead wrote: There're a site or two about it, but can't post link because cut and paste is another lovely function I've lost due to Microsoft's latest security patch.
No thats a symtom of the latest exploit for which the latest security patch is designed to close...
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Actually, spiders under the toilet lid were a problem in Australia during the time they had outhouses.

Redbacks are damn nasty things, and we export them around the world :D.
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