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Man breaks leg kicking spider
Herald Sun ^ | 13 January 2006

Posted on 01/12/2006 9:35:01 PM PST by Aussie Dasher

A 19-year-old broke his leg in two places while kicking at a spider in the NSW Southern Highlands

NRMA CareFlight said the teenager was flown to Liverpool Hospital in a stable condition from a property 25km west of Mittagong after the incident involving a large huntsman spider before 1pm (AEDT) today.

The force of the man's kick at the spider broke his right leg in two places and also killed the spider.

The huntsman is listed by the Australian Museum as being a relatively harmless species, although the Badge Huntsman can cause pain, headache, vomiting and an irregular pulse.


TOPICS: Humor; Local News; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: brokenleg; huntsman; spider
They forgot to mention the huntsman can also cause broken legs...
1 posted on 01/12/2006 9:35:03 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher

Ouch!

FRom Down Under..

Huntsman Spiders
http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/huntsman_spiders.htm


2 posted on 01/12/2006 9:40:19 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Aussie Dasher

That's what he gets for killing one of God's little creatures. (Just joking.)


3 posted on 01/12/2006 9:42:34 PM PST by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Perhaps he should get together with the man who threw a mouse on to a burning pile of leaves and the mouse on fire, ran back into his house, started a fire and burned his house down.

"It's not nice to fool with mother nature".


4 posted on 01/12/2006 9:44:01 PM PST by garyhope (Happy, healthy, prosperous New Year to all good Freepers and our brave military.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

"Stupid spider."


5 posted on 01/12/2006 11:23:39 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Peace Begins in the Womb)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Look he's crawling up my wall
Black and hairy, very small
Now he's up above my head
Hanging by a little thread
Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Now he's dropped onto the floor
Heading for the bedroom door
Maybe he's as scared as me
Where's he gone now, I can't see
Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Creepy, crawly, creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly

There he is wrapped in a ball
Doesn't seem to move at all
Perhaps he's dead, I'll just make sure
Pick this book up off the floor
Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Creepy, crawly, creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly

He's come to a sticky end (creepy, crawly)
Don't think he will ever mend (creepy, crawly)
Never more will he crawl 'round (creepy, crawly)
He's embedded in the ground (creepy, crawly)
Boris the spider
Boris the spider


6 posted on 01/12/2006 11:27:20 PM PST by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: Aussie Dasher



"They forgot to mention the huntsman can also cause broken legs..."

(((Hardy laugh)))

Actually, after reading about the Huntsman spider, and looking at some photo's of the hedious creature, I probably would have broke a leg trying to run from the bloody thing.


7 posted on 01/12/2006 11:41:06 PM PST by This Just In ("Those are my principles, if you don't like them, I've got others" - Groucho Marx)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Wow, we've had kicking spiders and flying shrimp today. What's next?
8 posted on 01/12/2006 11:43:39 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

Just goes to show shrimp are more dangerous than spiders :)


9 posted on 01/13/2006 2:37:57 AM PST by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

A 19-year-old broke his leg in two places while kicking at a spider


----I usually go after them with a can of Raid in one hand and a gun in the other. The Raid is for him and the gun is for me in case he gets away and I know he is loose inside my house somewhere, stalking, and leering at me with those beady eyes......LMAO


10 posted on 01/13/2006 2:44:21 AM PST by WasDougsLamb (I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man)
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To: WasDougsLamb

You sound like my wife!


11 posted on 01/13/2006 2:48:52 AM PST by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

---We women KNOW how to handle them bugs and not break bones doing it. LOL


12 posted on 01/13/2006 2:55:10 AM PST by WasDougsLamb (I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Habits, Mating and Reproduction

In the genus Isopoda, the male and female Huntsman spiders have a lengthy courtship, which involves mutual caresses, with the male drumming his palps on the trunk of a tree. He then inserts his palps into the female to fertilise her eggs. The male is rarely attacked, unlike some other species, and in fact many huntsman spiders live peacefully together in large colonies. A silken retreat is often built for egg laying, as well as for moulting. Some species of Neosparassus build a silken retreat in foliage, often at ground level, by binding several leaves together with silk, while others construct shallow burrows or move into abandoned cicada burrows.


13 posted on 01/13/2006 8:58:26 AM PST by sully777 (Blame Canada!)
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