AirBorne
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crewchief said:
HAHAHAHAHAHA that would be a bitch....like finding your car with the tranny just lying there one the ground! lol how funny would 2 arab dudes be riding on a camel together! hahaha
MESO-Rx
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Holy F*cking Sh*t!!!
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HAHAHAHAHAHA that would be a bitch....like finding your car with the tranny just lying there one the ground! lol how funny would 2 arab dudes be riding on a camel together! hahaha
sweettart29
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AirBorne said:
I can see it now.....IS THAT YOUR WALKING STICK OR R U JUST HAPPY TO B BEHIND ME lmfao
patsfan
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I'm with you...I would run like a screaming little bitch if I saw that fucking thing hiss at me and thats no exageration..man spiders and big bugs in general freak me out..no problem with any other animals or reptiles but I hate bugs.dolfe1 said:
When I saw what bedbugs look like up close I threw my mattress out and bought a new one.
Dont look sweets.
sweettart29
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patsfan said:
I don't plan on it!!!
garyzilla
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Not a real spider
Guys,
That photo is a joke. Look at this link: http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp
Copy and paste it. Camel spider DO NOT eat camels stomachs!
-Pastor
Guys,
That photo is a joke. Look at this link: http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp
Copy and paste it. Camel spider DO NOT eat camels stomachs!
-Pastor
dolfe1
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garyzilla said:
lol I was waiting for someone to call BS. You ruined perfectly good nightmares for some who have not yet read this thread Gary! I do believe the photo is real though, just no the silly claims about screaming and stomache eating.
garyzilla
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Sorry! I will not let it happen again! 
sweettart29
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dolfe1 said:
I don't care about the stomach eating shit that don't bother me at all just knowing that it is a pic of a spider is bad enough...I HATE THEM!!!
crewchief
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garyzilla said:
some of that may not be true but i will tell you that they do get as big as a dinner plate and i have seen them . and they do run fast as hell and make noise and can jump like a mofo. thes are reall spiders that are scary. i never really belived the camel stories because they always ate scorpions and buge that we fed them . but they get huge i belive the pics are reall we kept one for three months and when we got it it was about the size of a 50 cent piece and grew well over the size off a grape fruit. as for the two front legs they use them as weapons and have little claws on them to grab ther pray then they use there huge fangs and eat them in a few minutes. oh they are canibuls too if you put a small one in with a big one , the big one will chase the little one around till he catches him and then its lunch time.
later.
esco
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damn i was beaten to the punch ..
For the last few years, I've read things about the famed camel spider or wind scorpion (Eremobates gladiolus) in the Middle East. From pictures I've seen, it's a little bigger than your hand and very aggressive. Here's what I've heard that I can't verify conclusively:
It can run upwards of 25 mph (by soldiers that have tracked the speed with humvees since it runs in their shadows).
It's called a camel spider because it climbs onto the bellies of camels and eats the stomach--because the spider secretes anesthetics to numb the flesh, the camels don't notice until their intestines fall out.
It makes a screaming/squealing noise when it runs, similar to a child screaming.
So, pretty much the most horrifying thing you can imagine. How much of this is true? How horrible is it really? --Christian Vanderbeck
SDSTAFF Doug replies:
Doesn't this sound like the perfect topic for today, April Fool's Day? We thought you'd appreciate it.
Urban legends about the camel spider (properly termed a solpugid or solifugid) are as old as the proverbial hills, but they made a huge resurgence when vectored by American troops in Kuwait during Desert Storm. They're not quite as big as your hand (unless you're a five-year-old), and very shy and secretive. They do like to hide in the shadows, and they do run very, very quickly for a critter (they can reach about 10 MPH, the fastest known non-flying arthropod). They make no noise whatsoever, they have no venom whatsoever, and they do not eat flesh--they eat small desert arthropods like crickets and pillbugs. The rumors of their attacking camels, or crawling onto sleeping GIs' faces, apparently stem from one of two things, both of which may be true to some extent: (1) they may use hair to line their burrow when they are about to lay a batch of eggs, said hair being clipped from dead camels or other dead mammals (and a sleeping GI is not much different), and/or (2) dead camels are covered with flies, and crawling over a camel corpse may make for a convenient way to get a good meal of flies.
We have camel spiders in the sandy parts of the southwest U.S. and Mexico (in Mexico they are called matevenados), considerably smaller than the Middle Eastern types, but of the same shy, unassuming habits. Completely harmless and beneficial critters, like the desert equivalent of a praying mantis.
--SDSTAFF Doug
For the last few years, I've read things about the famed camel spider or wind scorpion (Eremobates gladiolus) in the Middle East. From pictures I've seen, it's a little bigger than your hand and very aggressive. Here's what I've heard that I can't verify conclusively:
It can run upwards of 25 mph (by soldiers that have tracked the speed with humvees since it runs in their shadows).
It's called a camel spider because it climbs onto the bellies of camels and eats the stomach--because the spider secretes anesthetics to numb the flesh, the camels don't notice until their intestines fall out.
It makes a screaming/squealing noise when it runs, similar to a child screaming.
So, pretty much the most horrifying thing you can imagine. How much of this is true? How horrible is it really? --Christian Vanderbeck
SDSTAFF Doug replies:
Doesn't this sound like the perfect topic for today, April Fool's Day? We thought you'd appreciate it.
Urban legends about the camel spider (properly termed a solpugid or solifugid) are as old as the proverbial hills, but they made a huge resurgence when vectored by American troops in Kuwait during Desert Storm. They're not quite as big as your hand (unless you're a five-year-old), and very shy and secretive. They do like to hide in the shadows, and they do run very, very quickly for a critter (they can reach about 10 MPH, the fastest known non-flying arthropod). They make no noise whatsoever, they have no venom whatsoever, and they do not eat flesh--they eat small desert arthropods like crickets and pillbugs. The rumors of their attacking camels, or crawling onto sleeping GIs' faces, apparently stem from one of two things, both of which may be true to some extent: (1) they may use hair to line their burrow when they are about to lay a batch of eggs, said hair being clipped from dead camels or other dead mammals (and a sleeping GI is not much different), and/or (2) dead camels are covered with flies, and crawling over a camel corpse may make for a convenient way to get a good meal of flies.
We have camel spiders in the sandy parts of the southwest U.S. and Mexico (in Mexico they are called matevenados), considerably smaller than the Middle Eastern types, but of the same shy, unassuming habits. Completely harmless and beneficial critters, like the desert equivalent of a praying mantis.
--SDSTAFF Doug
Ian Smith
New Member
Spiders suck!!!!! Theres nothing worse than walking into a spider web......
esco
New Member
Ian Smith said:
very true ... what got me was that movie arachnaphobia. after that movie spiders were everywhere.
sweettart29
Banned
What was really gross was this last fall I was showing a house to a client and the person who was selling didn't live there. They came up about once during the summer. They didn't bother to have someone come and get rid of the spiders and crap under the eves on the porch. So when I walked onto the porch to open the front door there was this big ass barn spider. I swear this thing had to b the size of a 50 cent peice if not bigger and I had all I could do not to run the other way.
shredalean
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garyzilla said:
Scroll down, and there's a cool video of the spider eating a Scorpion! REal bad ass spider.
shit man i printed that pic out and have been telling everyone i know about how these things eat the gutts out of camels..hahahaha that was a good story..haha im sticking with it till after dinner. been waiting to show the pic and tell the story right as everyone is digging in ..
ramboj70
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I hate spyders togaryzilla said:
crewchief
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shredalean said:
those pewnie scorpions dont stand a chance . CAMEL spiders are the shit.i have seen that before it kicks ass . i have a friend with a video of us feeding a camel spider scorpions and bettles and other camel spiders it on a vhs tape so i cant post it put its really cool.
MANWHORE
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You had to ruin it didn't you?garyzilla said:
