GUESS WHO'S BACK?

[drakyndra]

I refused to go any closer


AND THEN I KILLED THAT BASTARD. KILLED THAT BASTARD DEAD!

...How do you dispose of a dead huntsman?

Comments

[dibsy.livejournal.com]

That is fucking horrifying. I think that my arachnophobia* has just come thundering back. You are a warrior woman.

*That kniblet cured me of. She cured me by making me more scared of her than of the spiders.

[fannishnonsense]

ARGH! Now I'm going to have nightmares!

[cesario.livejournal.com]

Christ Almighty. That's a lot bigger than I was picturing. The only poisonous spiders indigenous to North Carolina are black widows, which are big, dramatic and obvious and therefore safe because you're not going to mistake them for anything else, and brown violins, which are absolutely tiny and not even worth bothering about because if there's one around you won't see it till after it's bitten you anyway. That thing is...a little too in your face for comfort.

As to how you dispose of them, can't you just chuck it in the garbage can?

[suburbannoir.livejournal.com]

ARGH! That's pretty frakking sinister looking hunstman! How did you kill it? Normally I trap them with the whole glass and a piece of paper trick, but one time there was one so huge I had to use a bucket and record sleeve...

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Hunstmans aren't really dangerous or anything - not like redbacks or funnel-webs - but they are huge and scary as fuck. I am only hoping my shrieking wasn't heard by any of the neighbours.

Yes, but it's on the floor and I don't want to touch it. *shudders*

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Fly spray.

Excessive amounts of fly spray.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed I haven't had any so far.

But I can't remember any dreams I've had recently, either, so maybe I'm just forgetting.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I am somewhat arachnophobic, too. As my shrieking and shaking when I saw this probably indicated.

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

O_O

OMG. Dude. That is WAAAY bigger than I was picturing. You might want to make sure that all small children and pets are accounted for. Srsly.

[longtimegone]

Oh god I just threw up a little in my mouth when I saw that pic. O_O

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I was shrieking. Literally. Especially when it started running down the wall onto my little noticeboard thing.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

See, my freaking out the other day was entirely justified!

[kibebe.livejournal.com]

Congrats on killing that bastard! You are much braver than I.

[suburbannoir.livejournal.com]

And that works!? *is relieved*

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

GOD YES. I prolly would've called the Marines if I saw something like that in my house. Or Chuck Norris. Or ninjas!

(omg. one time, like, 10 years ago, a squirrel got stuck in between my storm window and the regular window in my kitchen. since i was on the 3rd floor with no trees terribly close by, how it got there is a total mystery. anyway, it was sunday night, the ASPCA was closed and no one was answering their alleged emergency hotline, so i called the local NYPD precinct, and they laughed a lot. but then an hour or so later, the two greenest, most wide-eyed rookies showed up... IN RIOT GEAR. it was so awesome. sadly, mr. squirrel had already escaped on his own, leaving nothing but a small river of frightened squirrel pee at the bottom of the windowsill. hee.)

[kniblet.livejournal.com]

Eat it! Before it eats you.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

It is my long used traditional technique of killing spiders dead.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I was armed (with Fly Spray) and dangerous!

_{Best. Story. Ever!}

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

It'd take a lot more bravery to go on with that thing alive in my room.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

It's dead now. MWAHAHA!

[kibebe.livejournal.com]

I think you're brave for living in an area that supports those devil spawn. I'm adding this to the reasons I'm actually glad to live in an area that gets subzero in the winter.

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

You totally need to construct a little popsicle-stick fort and mount the dead spider's lifeless corpse on a toothpick at the front, as a warning to other spiders who are plotting to invade your bedroom. This will be awesome and not at all insane. I promise.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, I'd have to leave the country to escape them. And I like Australia too much (not to mention the whole "still in Uni" thing)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

That is a most fabulous mental image. But where would I put the fort?

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

Hm. According to Machiavelli, one must place one's strongest defenses at the area of one's kingdom which most closely borders the lands inhabited by one's most feared enemies.¹

Clearly this means you will need a separate tiny fort under all couches and beds, and in all dark pokey corners. >_>

¹ok. i totally made this up. i'm so ashamed. he said some stuff about fortresses that serve as a restraint to those who have designs upon your kingdom, and some stuff about creating safe refuges. i think. i will re-read sun tzu's art of war in the bathtub tomorrow and advise further. *snicker*

[xwingace]

Now, I'm not usually that scared of spiders. They creep me out a little, but hey, they're just animals too. Especially if I know they're not poisonous (and none of them are around here), it's live and let live.

But I don't live somewhere where you can come across something like *that* in the wild... I can imagine getting scared the fuck out if you meet one unawares.

XWA

[jo-mako.livejournal.com]

It was a wolf spider...on my bicycle...in the wilds of Western Aus, that forever marked me an arachnophobia sufferer...Hawai'i had cane spiders, which ironically look a lot like Huntsmens... Before the wolfie incident, spiders didn't faze me at all. And we had funnel webs and redbacks all over the place. I get this whopping great wolfie pop out from behind my front reflector and all bets were off.

I personally would have thanked my smoking habit and some handy dandy flammable spray if I actually survived seeing that thing on my wall. Your balls? They are bigger then mine! My recommendation? Get a shovel...with a really long handle.

[jo-mako.livejournal.com]

lol sorry about that...meant to reply to the post, not your comment. <=)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

That would require the spider be broken up into a whole lot of pieces.

...Ew.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Huntsman: Not dangerous, just scary as fuck.

And your Adipose icon is adorable. I am trying to decide if I want one or not.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Ever had the huntsman on the dashboard experience? It happened to my Mum once when I was in the car, and she almost drove into tree.

It ended up being put in the bin using an icecream container as scoop.

[xwingace]

Yeah, I get that. :-)

If you do decide you want it, just take and enjoy. :-)

XWA

[jo-mako.livejournal.com]

We didn't get huntsmen out in Exmouth...we had everything else. =p Our neighbour had the funnel web hanging out under their front step though. Dad discovered that one when it had a go at his boot. Thankfully he was wearing steel toes. He caught the movement and kicked on instinct, squashing it against the underside of the step.

And I will just picture the ice cream containers we had and leave it at that...those suckers were of a good size.

[jo-mako.livejournal.com]

Huntsman: Not dangerous, just scary as fuck.

Like cane spiders in Hawai'i...jesus those things were huge, but they were harmless.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I've never been to Hawaii, so I shall take your word for it.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I'm still deciding if I want one or not - I've only one icon space left, and I just got a bunch of kitten icons for cute value.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Funnel Webs can be nasty - the ones up north near Sydney can be very poisonous, I've heard.

It is now out in the garbage bin, to be collected tomorrow morning. And good riddance!

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! SO GROSS. But look... do you want to rule all that you survey with an iron fist or not?

You always get minions to do the icky jobs, anyway. Drawing and quartering = icky.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I just don't want there to be any more bloody huntsmans.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Augh! *shudders*

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Yep, that about sums it up.

[pyrae.livejournal.com]

AHHHHHH.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Yep, that about sums it up.