Brown Recluse Spider vs. Me: who would win?

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<p>Did I ever post this here? Anyway, this is something I wrote up a few nights ago.</p>

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<p>So, my purpose for this thread is… please share your spider experiences with us.</p>

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<p>Um…why not shoe + spider = win?</p>

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<p>what a great essay…you’ve got skills!</p>

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<p>now you have me all nervous about spiders in my room…</p>

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<p>damn…TheVeganActress you made me all nervous about spiders in my room…</p>

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<p>wow…good writing.</p>

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<p>i always have shoes in my room to kill spiders… they realllllly freak me out</p>

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<p>Don’t kill the spider. </p>

<p>Just cause it’s little and cannot shriek in pain…</p>

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<p>There are tons of hobo spiders in my house, which have a bite quite similar to a brown recluse spider. I always use a shoe to kill them. Unfortunately, they are very fast as well and it’s easy to miss them.</p>

<p>Here’s a picture:</p>

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<a href=“Office of Public Health (U.S. National Park Service)”>Office of Public Health (U.S. National Park Service)

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<p>A link to a picture of a hobo spider bite (Warning: Somewhat graphic): <a href=“http://z.about.com/d/urbanlegends/1/0/4/B/day_10_sm.jpg[/url]”>http://z.about.com/d/urbanlegends/1/0/4/B/day_10_sm.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>AHH! Neutrino, I would be so paranoid if I lived in your house. You mean… those things show up… a lot? I think that I would cry. Those are the creepiest looking spiders that I have ever seen… those legs!!! Eurgghghhhhdsfkjsdk.</p>

<p>I used to refuse to get within five feet of a spider if I found one… I made the closest person kill it for me. I’m proud to announce that I can now kill spiders myself! …err, as long as they’re below a certain size. I would make someone else kill one of those hobo spiders if I ever found one… =)</p>

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<p>those are in your house???
I would never sleep!!!</p>

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<p>Man…stop scaring me death…</p>

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<p>last year i found a rather fat spider (don’t really care what kind, it wasn’t very large) just sitting there on the floor. of course, i absolutely hate spiders so i wanted to kill it. i was going to go outside to help my dad fix something so i had a hammer in hand, and decided to smash it to bits. it was probably dying or something because although it tried to escape it wasn’t successful! </p>

<p>i really hate spiders.</p>

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<p>one time there was this GIANT spider on the floor, that looked exactly like one of those fake halloween ones. My sister was about to throw it on me because she didn’t know it was real, and then it moved!!! So we started shrieking and my dad caught it in a jar. It wouldn’t move and when you shook the jar it would flop around and you could hear its legs squeaking against the sides. ugh i hate that noise!! </p>

<p>I don’t know what kind of spider it was, it had velvety looking brown skin on the back and the front was shiny like black patent leather. It had red bulbs under these big fangs that I guess was filled with poison? We put some other spider in the jar to make them fight but it just ran away from the other littler spider. Anyway it died and now its all dried up in the jar. but i lost the jar.</p>

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<p>Strangely enough, I have never seen one in my room. They like to hide under cracks and dart out with speed when you’re least expecting it. However, there isn’t really anywhere to hide in my room, so it is somewhat safe. There is however a black spider in the corner of my room (in a web), but there is no reason to kill it because it is not harmful. Black widows do live in this area, but this is not one of them, nor have I ever seen one in my house. These are the second most common spiders in my house (second to the hobo spider).</p>

<p>About a week ago, I decided to never kill these spiders when I saw one of them with a hobo spider in its web. If there is competition, there is hope. ;)</p>

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<p>erk! those pictures were disgusting! You’re making me paranoid…
a week ago, we left the door slightly open when we went to the beach, and when we came back, there were like 40 flies in our house! eew! They smelled the crab i guess…
We have a bunch of spiders in our basement. all harmless though…</p>

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Now that is smart. Let them destroy each other… oh, you are a scheming one indeed. I like it. I’m glad I don’t have giant spiders roaming around my house. I would have to import other spiders to compete with them if I did.</p>

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<p>if I had giant spiders roaming the house I wouldn’t be bringing in more spiders… I’d be moving out.</p>

<p>we just have tiny little spiders here.</p>

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<p>Unfortunately, that black spider is now dead. My dog ate it.</p>

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<p>thanks guys. i heard a funny noise and it freaked me out like no other because i thought it was a spider. it was just my laptop but still.</p>