FReeper Canteen~ Camel Spiders Found in Iraq , Urban Legends and Folklore ~Sept.21,2006

[fatima]

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Camel Spiders Found in Iraq , Urban Legends and Folklore Urban Legends:Subject: FW: Camel Spider found in Iraq--This is a huge spider!!!! Yuck. I sure am glad we don't have these here. Although we probably will after this war..... This picture is a perfect example of why you don't want to go to the desert. These are 2 of the biggest I've ever seen. With a vertical leap that would make a pro basketball player weep with envy (they have to be able to jump up on to a camels stomach after all), these spiders latch on and inject you with a local anesthesia so you can't feel it feeding on you. They eat flesh, not just suck out your juices like a normal spider. Comments: The photo appears to be authentic. Fortunately for all of us — especially the guys in the picture — the same cannot be said of the accompanying text, which merely repeats false rumors circulating since the start of the Iraq war. This scary-looking creature (actually, it's a pair of scary-looking creatures dangling end-to-end) is indeed commonly called a camel spider, but it is found in arid locales all over the world — including the southwestern United States — not just in the Gulf region. A typical specimen can grow to about the size of a child's hand, but, though they are known for being vicious predators, camel spiders are neither venomous nor a threat to human beings. They don't eat camels, either.

World's Tallest Woman Netlore Archive: Emailed photos purport to show the tallest woman in the world Description: Emailed photos Circulating since: 2002 Status: False

The Giant Grizzly Bear Not quite a world record In real life, the big grizzly in the first two photographs measured 10' 6" from nose to tail and weighed an estimated 1,000 to 1,200 pounds — unusually large for the vicinity in which it was found, says the USDA Forest Service, but not quite a world record, nor even a record for Alaska. It was killed on October 14, 2001 by U.S. Air Force Airman Theodore Winnen on Hinchinbrook Island, Prince William Sound. The photos were taken by his hunting partner, Staff Sgt. James Urban. Both were stationed at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks at the time. Though the bear was within 10 yards of the hunters' position and moving towards them when he fired the first shot, Winnen says, it did not charge them, contrary to what the email claims. "I don't know if the wind was in our favor or what," he told the Anchorage Daily News. "We were dressed in camouflage. He might not have seen us." Winnen's weapon was a 338-caliber Winchester Magnum, not a 7mm semi-automatic as alleged. The first bullet pierced the bear's brain but left it standing; five more in the chest brought it down.

[SoldierDad]

What I like best about this song is the truth that God is with us no matter what storm we face. We just have to listen and He will talk to us.

[stand watie]

somebody WILL. i don't even OWN a camera any more.

free dixie,sw

[BykrBayb]

Fatima {{{{{HUGS}}}}}

A spider? Do I want to know what you're talking about?

[BykrBayb]

You mean a camel spider? Sure! I could use a good watch spider.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[sasha123]

Thanks for the beautiful photo fatima.

[StarCMC]

Works for me!! LOL

I am MUCH better at cleaning if it's someone else's stuff. If it's mine I get all caught up in trying to decide if I'll ever again in my lifetime need this item or that item, should I save it? I KNOW I can get another one a WalMart for $.99, but it's the PRINCIPLE of the thing. LOL!!!

[blackie]

Ya can't have too much magic. >:-}

[JFC]

Thanks a lot.. I dreamed about that spider last night. It woke me up and I thought it was attached to my schnauzer....

I need a life outside FR and politics!

[tongue-tied]

Yeah, I'm in Victory North now. No water in the tent, no sink, no SHOWEER (hehe) and no spiders.

[fatima]

You have me laughing.I dreamt of spiders too.

[fatima]

Your lucky,I only have a few left:)Here's Johnny.

[BykrBayb]

Johnny looks a might feeble. You got any without a swayed back?

[fatima]

He's just looking around and guarding your house for you.Johnny does not like it when you say he is feeble.:)

[Allegra]

You must work a night shift. I have Baghdad time on my computer (since I'm headed back there all too dang soon...) and it's 3:45 a.m.!

Let's send fatima a camel spider she can have for a pet. ;-)

Just kidding, fatima!

[fatima]

Thanks Allegra,I am running out of spiders.So many requests.I can just see you trying to catch one:)

[tongue-tied]

Yeah, just went back to 21-09 starting tonight. I was 19-03. Oh yeah, and I am in Victory Sounth, Dodge City North. Don't know how I got confused about where I live/work. (It is a natural blond thing I guess)

[Allegra]

Oh yeah, and I am in Victory Sounth, Dodge City North. Don't know how I got confused about where I live/work. (It is a natural blond thing I guess)

Beleive me, I understand. It's more of a "Constant-Sleep-Deprivation-Perpetual-Tiredness-Iraq-Life" thing.

[tongue-tied]

And job shifts every couple of weeks, or work hour changes anyway. Back on 12 hour shifts, whcih will make the time go by fast, but sleep is fleeting it seems. LOL...I've got bags on the bags under my eyes.