A Traumatic Experience

[Mr.Lombardi34]

I saw my cat poking around by the computer desk, putting her nose under the file cabinet and stuff. She does it all the time when she sees little ants and things. I always worry a little about what she could be playing with, so I sometimes look around and try to figure out what it is she's so interested in.

Tonight, I did just that. My kitty persisted in examining that cabinet, so I bent down to look underneath. Then, I see this thing moving around under there. It was some kind of menacing insect, and I wasn't staying there long enough to figure out what the hell it was. You see, I'm terribly afraid of any insect bigger than an ant, and I am horrified of having to kill them. They just give me the willies when they're in my house. If they're outside, you can move away from them, but you can't leave them to crawl about the house - you have to deal with them.

I sprinted madly into the kitchen and brandished a flyswatter to confront the foul beast. I came back into the computer room to find it out in the open, on the carpet. I look closer, and see that this massive insect is, in fact, a spider, one of my biggest fears. It's head, er, body thing was the size of a penny, and it's legs extended to form a circle just smaller than a hockey puck. The biggest spider I've ever seen was crawling around my computer room.

I started to panic, and I didn't know what to do. I really didn't want my cat near this thing, but she wouldn't leave, so I just had to smack it as hard as I could, in the hope that it would die on impact. As I hit it, the creature popped up into the air and landed back on the carpet, motionless. I ran to my grandfather to have him pick it up, but then, it continued to squirm about, so I pounded it down with that flyswatter a good five times until I was sure that it was dead. I got closer to see it in detail, but I soon freaked out and ran into the other room. It was not one color, and it didn't look harmless. That's all I can say.

This was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life. If you're like me, you know what it's like to have to kill a normal bug, much less this huge, demonic arachnid. This happened just twenty minutes from the time I'm posting this, so it's still fresh in my mind.

I truly dread the next time my cat goes looking around in tight places.

 

[omfgomfg]

http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=184267
should have done this until it died

 

[Overload]

I hate killing stuff, I always catch them and release outside

 

[GoldShadow]

You need to buy yourself a can of RAID.

I reserve RAID for only the worst arthropod offenders. Most of the time though, my tactics are:

1: catch and destroy (grab them in napkin/tissue and throw in garbage/toilet)
2: crush and remove (kill with a shoe or flyswatter, then throw in trash/toilet)
3: catch and release (put a disposable plastic cup over them, slide a thin piece of cardboard underneath, and release them outside)

 

[omfgomfg]

I hate killing stuff, I always catch them and release outside

that's probably because killing things either

1. grosses you out
2. morally wrong to you

or maybe both of them are correct for you

You need to buy yourself a can of RAID.

I reserve RAID for only the worst arthropod offenders. Most of the time though, my tactics are:

1: catch and destroy (grab them in napkin/tissue and throw in garbage/toilet)
2: crush and remove (kill with a shoe or flyswatter, then throw in trash/toilet)
3: catch and release (put a disposable plastic cup over them, slide a thin piece of cardboard underneath, and release them outside)

how about

4: don't care (too lazy to deal with such an insignificant pest at the time)

do you do this one as well? (i have rarely ever done this)

 

[Overload]

that's probably because killing things either

1. grosses you out
2. morally wrong to you

or maybe both of them are correct for you



how about

4: don't care (too lazy to deal with such an insignificant pest at the time)

do you do this one as well? (i have rarely ever done this)

its just wrong to me, it doesn't gross me out, and I have just ignored it before. recently I saw a pretty big millipede/centipede in my room so I went upstairs to get a cup came back and couldn't find it so I gave up.

 

[Sad Panda323]

The only animals that I will kill are spiders. They scare me to death.

 

[mzink*]

Dude Florida has huge insects and huge spiders, I've been bitten so many times in my sleep or when I'm just chillin somewhere, I swell up so bad especially if its a spider bite. I kill those things on sight. SCRAM!!!!

 

[Stroupes]

Insects shouldn't exist D:

 

[Overload]

Insects shouldn't exist D:

then you must believe we shouldn't exist, because without them, there would be no us lol

 

[Mr.Lombardi34]

You need to buy yourself a can of RAID.

I reserve RAID for only the worst arthropod offenders. Most of the time though, my tactics are:

1: catch and destroy (grab them in napkin/tissue and throw in garbage/toilet)
2: crush and remove (kill with a shoe or flyswatter, then throw in trash/toilet)
3: catch and release (put a disposable plastic cup over them, slide a thin piece of cardboard underneath, and release them outside)

I thought raid only killed ants. Besides, when you're panicking because of a massive spider in the computer room, the first thing you think of isn't "Let's spray it with toxic chemicles."

 

[Moy]

Out of any insect, I really dislike earwigs. Those things are just weird.

 

[Goldberg]

Killing like a dozen of those horrible things that lived on the bamboo on my backyard was not a pretty experience.

 

[Spire]

Ever catch and clean a fish? That's always fun.

 

[Mr.Lombardi34]

Out of any insect, I really dislike earwigs. Those things are just weird.

Yeah, they are also pretty weird, but not that scary. Centipedes are sinister creatures, perhaps the most terrifying of all insects.

 

[GoldShadow]

I thought raid only killed ants. Besides, when you're panicking because of a massive spider in the computer room, the first thing you think of isn't "Let's spray it with toxic chemicles."

Raid kills pretty much everything. There's a giant list on the can.

 

[riboflavinbob]

for some strange reason, i've had a fascination with insects recently, especially spiders and beetles. perhaps because i had alot of fun catching them and putting them together in a big jar. it's really fun to watch them. but in reality they're just terrified little creatures who wont hurt you unless you hurt them.

 

[GoldShadow]

but in reality they're just terrified little creatures who wont hurt you unless you hurt them.

LIES. Insect sympathizer.

 

[The Fail Tracer]

I know what you mean. Ever had a moth go crazy when you're in its vicinity? I starts flying everywhere, and keeps flying in your face and making a terrible buzzing noise that sounds like a two-hundred-ton bee, and even though you know it's just a moth and it won't hurt you, it gives me goosebumps if I hear that freaky buzzing sound.

Last time that happened to me, I just picked up a fly-swatter and started randomly swinging it around as fast as I possibly could. =P

 

[Sad Panda323]

but in reality they're just terrified little creatures who wont hurt you unless you hurt them.

YOU LIE! LOOK AT THESE THINGS:

*shudders*

You're trying to tell me that these eight-legged spawns of Satan are terrified of me!?!! I refuse to believe it. These things will bite me and turn my insides to mush the first chance they get. I don't mind bears, snakes, bats, or sharks, but spiders......they're just evil and terrifying, and don't even get me started on the movie Arachnophobia.....

 

[PhillipthaGoober]

I have a mini flame torch I use to kill spiders and other bugs in my house.

 

[Cashed]

Sad Panda - One of the guys I know in the military said that camel spiders (which is what you posted a picture of) just follow you around. They don't try to attack you, they just try to stay in your shadow for shade. I mean, I wouldn't want a huge freakin' bug like that following me around, but they're just trying to keep cool.

Spiders scare me to death, and reading stories about them gives me shivers. Eugh. Thankfully my house is sprayed so any type of bug is a rare sight in the house.

And to people who put bugs they find in their house outside: You're likely just going to end up causing its death anyways by moving it outside. Just go ahead and put them out of their misery.

 

[SkylerOcon]

I hate bugs. I'm not really scared of them until they get big. And when they do, I get my fire-retardant gloves, set a tennis ball on fire, and throw it at them.

That never gets old.

 

[ChaosKnight]

the Camel spider also has a bite that numbs the area it bites and devours your flesh. people usually wake up to there feet with skin off and bleeding or just being very red like something ate your flesh xD but besides that camel spiders are nice little spiders.

 

[MidnightAsaph]

That post was utterly hilarious.

When I see a bug, it dies. End of story. I don't really have problems with bugs. But, if it has a thousand legs and crawls on my skin, I have a fit.

 

[Sad Panda323]

the Camel spider also has a bite that numbs the area it bites and devours your flesh. people usually wake up to there feet with skin off and bleeding or just being very red like something ate your flesh xD but besides that camel spiders are nice little spiders.

Yeah....a spider with a flesh eating bite seems nice.

 

[Xsyven]

Camel Spiders are harmless:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp


ANYWHO, I WORK IN THE DESERT WITH TARANTULAS. Yeah, I saw the first one today. They're migratory. So apparently, I'll be seein' a lot more of 'em as the fall draws nearer.

 

[ChaosKnight]

LIES they are bloodthirsty spiders

xD dont give in!

 

[deepseadiva]

Sad Panda - One of the guys I know in the military said that camel spiders (which is what you posted a picture of) just follow you around. They don't try to attack you, they just try to stay in your shadow for shade. I mean, I wouldn't want a huge freakin' bug like that following me around, but they're just trying to keep cool.

I actually felt emotional for them for a second. -.-

And to people who put bugs they find in their house outside: You're likely just going to end up causing its death anyways by moving it outside. Just go ahead and put them out of their misery.

I doubt this, they can just run around and find prey naturally and stuff. If not, they can pretty easily find their way BACK inside...

 

[Blazey]

There's this one guy in my class who absolutely refuses to accept the fact that camel spiders aren't the 25mph running, anesthetic injecting, flesh eating insects of doom that he read about in those chain letters. I exhausted myself trying to explain to him that they're not really like that but once that guy hears something he thinks is phenomenal there's no way to change his mind. He sincerely believes you can learn to play guitar just by playing Guitar Hero, despite the grandest efforts of a friend and I to explain him otherwise.

 

[Rusty Shacklefurd]

When I see a spider in my house I usually just let it be. I've seen plenty of spiders and they've never bitten me, but fleas and mosquitoes have bitten me, and moths piss me off, and flies eat my food, and the spiders bite all of them, and that makes me happy

 

[SmashAura4]

Are you kidding me? The most terrifying bug is a flying cockroach. Have one those bad boys fly towards you......ugh.

 

[Mr.Lombardi34]

Thank god spiders can't fly. That's all I can say.

Now, the worst feeling for me, is when you see a spider, and you run to get something to kill it with. Then, you come back and you don't see it. It's a really awful feeling, because you know that it's still in your house.

 

[Cashed]

Thank god spiders can't fly. That's all I can say.

Now, the worst feeling for me, is when you see a spider, and you run to get something to kill it with. Then, you come back and you don't see it. It's a really awful feeling, because you know that it's still in your house.

Which is why I usually just foot stomp them. They scare the crap out of me, but I'm not about to let them get away. I'm a flipflop wearer, too, so foot stomping is usually barefeet.

 

[Autydragoon]

Insects shouldn't exist D:

Then what would college students eat on bets?

 

[Zook]

Next time you find one of those bad boys, post a vid of you stepping on it.

 

[Mr.Lombardi34]

Oh, that's it, Zook. Panicking because of a massive spider? Get out a camera and document the horrifying experience.

 

[Zook]

Well, you never know. It might help you, uh, overcome your fear. Yeah.

On-topic: I like bugs, personally. I find them cute, even spiders. I can't remember the last time I perpously killed an insect. Even a mosquito, I just shoo them away.

 

[riboflavinbob]

YOU LIE! LOOK AT THESE THINGS:

*shudders*

You're trying to tell me that these eight-legged spawns of Satan are terrified of me!?!! I refuse to believe it. These things will bite me and turn my insides to mush the first chance they get. I don't mind bears, snakes, bats, or sharks, but spiders......they're just evil and terrifying, and don't even get me started on the movie Arachnophobia.....

come on... you're a human why would they not be scared of you? if they're agressive, yes they'll attack, but they're still scared. you, as a human have the ultimate weapon: your foot.

 

[The Fail Tracer]

The only bugs I don't want to completely die off are lightning bugs.

They're cool-looking, aren't annoying, are harmless, and are just downright awesome.