And here's one from Japan:
Posted on 07/22/2011 1:08:15 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Thats what I was thinking. My Grandmother was bitten once by a Black Widow and said it hurt like the devil. She was strong and lived 99 years.
And here's one from Japan:
It was when I was a kid and staying in Alabama for the summer. Back then, they still had outside toilets where I was staying [Opp]. he had to go to the toilet one night and set down on one and it bit him on the balls. his wife said you could hear him scream for miles. He said it felt like someone took a pair of pliers and squeezed his nuts with them.
Growing up in SE Colorado, I have numerous black widow spider stories.
One close friend to my parents was bitten on the back of his scrotum while using an outdoor privy. This happened several years ago.
A kid on my HS football team was bitten while he was in his basement bedroom. He was a big ole boy and, according to his brother, sweat it out during the night.
I myself have pulled a big black widow out of the pocket of a jacket fumbling for a kleenex to blow my nose that was in my parent’s garage. Fortunately, it was cool and the low temp slowed her up. I freaked out and was screaming at the top of my lungs when my Ma poked her head into the garage to see what all the commotion was about.
Of course, our 3rd cutting alfalfa hay bales always seemed to have them out in the fields.
I hate the damn things and now that I live in KS we deal with Brown recluse....
Same thing happened to me! Except I wasn't screaming in agony.........
Have you ever watched them in the mud pits rolling little smooth balls of mud? It really is interesting to watch.
Ow.
I know where Opp, AL is and you made me LOL with your tale of the outhouse bite..... Grew up with outhouses until I was about 10....never got bit by any critters though. However knew all about “touch and goes” long before I went to Pilot Training.....in the winter scraping off about 6 inches of snow off the seat....yep..you got it...a quick “touch and go”!
That's because they're in the southern hemisphere ;-)
As a kid I used to watch them gathering around the edges of mud puddles gathering mud for their nests. My grandfather first showed me how they fill their nests with spiders for the larva to live on. The spiders aren’t dead, they’re just paralyzed.
Something doesn’t add up in this story.
Perhaps so. Hard to tell.
That’s a great idea. I always seem to get bit as I turn them over to check for the red thingy on their tummy.
My family and spent 3 months in Wildomar Ca one winter, we found black widows living outside around the pool, the BBQ, the narrow walkways on both sides of the house.
They came out at night, we killed 22 of them in two weeks. Had no idea they were even there until I found one nearly in my boot early one morning. Killed another in my swim trunks drying by the pool.
Started killing them in the neighbors yards at night too (with their permission)
Black widow venom interferes with acetylcholine.
Massive release and then depletion...Usually ascending pain.
19 bites would have been unbearable.
Possible it was not a black widow at all and he became septic from a wound infection.
I lived with an outhouse for a few years - a sparkler's very handy for scaring off anything lurking under the rim.
Duh!
Everything is upside down, down there!
Ugh, dreadful. RIP.
I agree, BS or more to the story.
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