Posted on 09/07/2017 2:47:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In Australia, EVERYTHING will kill you!..............
For once, this kind of public complaint was dead on accurate. Indeed, when the Sydney Funnel Web spider is considered, “dead on” is totally right since those things have highly neurotoxic venom that can kill and adult, let alone a small child. Little kids should be encouraged to play with Aussie spiders as much as they should be encouraged to play with loaded guns, the risk with both being about the same.
There is a very poisonous creature that does NOT live in Australia.
But all the rest do.
LOL!! Great PSA.
Those funnel web spiders will chase you, they can bite right through a sneaker. If your yard has an infestation the entire yard would have to be excavated down three feet and hauled off and new dirt brought in.
Peppa Pig is a favorite around here because my grand-daughters watch it. However, picking up a poisonous spider is not wise. Poor writing, no editing, in my opinion.
What bs is this. Even small spiders can give a nasty bite. Then there are black widows in many places. This claim about spiders is plain wrong.
Maybe the ourpose is a further reduction of population.
Wonder how may Fosters the guy had who wrote that one.
“What bs is this. Even small spiders can give a nasty bite.”
absolutely. even “benign” spider bites can make people EXTREMELY ill, cause MAJOR flesh damage in the vicinity of the bite, and in some cases can leave people with permanent organ damage.
In the US the fiddleback and the black widow can cause serious injury.
I think we can all agree that the producers of the show are real idiots.
Is Peppa Pig a scientific educational show, or entertainment?
Is Al Gore’s movie allwed there?
Scary and repulsive even when dead, and without any of the redeeming features of Rattle Snakes.
Come now. I am an American. This means nothing to me. Is it like 7 feet?
No kidding! I'm convinced Harry Harrison, the Science Fiction writer based his "Deathworld" books on Australia!
Mark
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