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Briton bitten by tropical spider saved by camera phone (Picture)
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| 4-27-05
Posted on 04/27/2005 6:18:08 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
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To: Dan from Michigan
Good thing it wasn't a violin spider...you don't want to fiddle around with them.
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:19:46 PM PDT
by
umgud
(FR, NASCAR, NRA, GOP)
To: spetznaz
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:20:56 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
To: Dan from Michigan
Despite being dizzy and shaking, staff at a local community hospital told Stevens he should simply go home to rest. British "medicine" strikes again!
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:22:00 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(But what do I know? I'm just a right-wing nut in his PJs whackin' on a keyboard..)
To: Dan from Michigan
I could take rats running across my face in Nam,
but spiders? Kill,kill,kill,kill!
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:22:10 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Dan from Michigan
fun words:
briton bitten.
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:22:19 PM PDT
by
ken21
(if you didn't see it on tv, then it didn't happen. /s)
To: Dan from Michigan
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:22:58 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
To: Dan from Michigan
That's the British medical system for you. You get bitten twice by a huge spider and they send you home to get some rest!
To: Mr. Jeeves
Then WTF was AFP doing using that one in a picture?
Oh yeah...it's French.
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:23:58 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("This will help you with the pain - POW!!" - Jack Bauer)
To: Dan from Michigan
Quite a story/ I wish the chef a speedy recovery.
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:25:24 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(2¢ plain)
To: Mr. Jeeves
Yeah, it looks much more like a tarantula to me. I also didn't know that camera phones are able to focus (the spider is in focus but the guy's hand isn't).
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:25:56 PM PDT
by
Ex-Dem
(40 F in March? Where's global warming when you need it...)
To: umgud
I went to try and pick it up and it bit me again.Ah, not too "brite", huh.
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:26:47 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: ken21
briton bitten.LOL! I love it.
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:27:13 PM PDT
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: Ex-Dem
YOu're right, that ia a tarantula... as far as I know it's not a "true" spider, whatever that means. To me it's an eight-legged beastie, every bit as ugly as all other eight-legged beasties! EEEEEK!
To: nuconvert
Brazilian Wandering Spider -- one of the deadliest spiders in the world -- believed to have stowed away in a bunch of bananas, attacked. Snapshot from the Twilight Zone meets the Global Village. No wonder the concepts of what is a native species, what is an exotic are blurred. Hence the challenge of maintaining AND DEFENDING borders after the ravages of fifty years of deconstruction.
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:31:03 PM PDT
by
Calusa
(it’s a mere fig leaf of fairness.)
To: Mr. Jeeves
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:31:49 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: umgud
"Good thing it wasn't a violin spider...you don't want to fiddle around with them."
I got bit by something that to my untrained eye looked like a recluse (violin spider) but much bigger and flatter, it held its legs bent parallel to the ground. It was in Central America at the time so I'm sure it's not the same thing and I can't remember the name the doctor used.
Over the course of a week, A hunk of my calf muscle the size of a peach pit turned black and just fell out. Strange thing is it never hurt.
After that no spider was safe from the wrath of my shoe.
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:36:04 PM PDT
by
ndt
To: Redcloak
Despite being dizzy and shaking, staff at a local community hospital... Yeah, the nurses were really shaken up by this incident, it would seem.
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:36:45 PM PDT
by
jwalburg
(If I have not seen as far as others, it is because of the giants standing on my shoulders.)
To: jwalburg
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:37:44 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: Dan from Michigan
I love spiders... when they are at a distance or when I am in control and know they are not going to do anything strange, but I can't stand them if they just suddenly decide to drop in on you (had that happen to me while reading a book, spider just dropped down on her web between me and the book, scared the life out of me).
Also it is amazing that the medai can't even find a picture of the right spider how can we expect them to be any more acurrate on matters of greater importance!
I guess nowadays all the brighter students have something better to do with their lives than become journalists, which well unfortunately leaves us with the not so bright folks pursuing journalism and other non mentaly taxing courses of study...
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posted on
04/27/2005 6:39:18 PM PDT
by
battousai
(The mainstream media; as honest as the French are clean.)
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