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FReeper Canteen~ Camel Spiders Found in Iraq , Urban Legends and Folklore ~Sept.21,2006
Posted on 09/20/2006 6:01:45 PM PDT by fatima
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.
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KEYWORDS: canteen; troopsupport
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To: Army Air Corps
Those storms and the allergies I get from the cotton gins keep me from living there. I really like the town itself.
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:48:48 PM PDT
by
luvie
(We didn’t lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
To: fatima
Interesting thread, fatima! *HUGS!*
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:50:25 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
("So what was the price to betray us - Judas?" - SGT Mark Russak to Traitor Murtha)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Well you just catch live bugs and throw them in the web.I have a giant spider web on the window of my truck.My spider is big-have spider-will travel.When I go to pay for gas they have to be careful not to break the web.
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:50:26 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: fatima
Hee-hee..All spiders look that big when you're 'fraid of 'em! :D
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:50:30 PM PDT
by
luvie
(We didn’t lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
To: laurenmarlowe; fatima
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:50:50 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
To: fatima
Great thread, fatima!
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:55:02 PM PDT
by
MEG33
(GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
You know they are for real.13 year olds.:)
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:56:34 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: fatima
How about a puppy or a kitten or another bird. How is you "playing dead" bird doing to day? "hello!" LOL!
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:57:13 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
To: Eagle Eye; Allegra
We are never bored by pictures of our soldiers and their support personnel! NEVER!!! :D
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:57:49 PM PDT
by
luvie
(We didn’t lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
To: StarCMC
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:58:23 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: fatima
I wonder if they hold spider races ..
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:59:12 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
To: LUV W
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:59:25 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: TASMANIANRED
Didja keep your skivies in the freezer. Nah...heat doesn't bother me much. The Iraqis think I'm crazy because I'll go sit out in the heat sometimes to thaw from the A/C.
I hate cold. If it's below 60, I'm shivering. ;-)
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posted on
09/20/2006 8:59:35 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Home, Sweet Home!)
To: MEG33
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posted on
09/20/2006 9:00:26 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: Allegra
Hey chickie!! How long are ya home for?
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posted on
09/20/2006 9:02:28 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
("So what was the price to betray us - Judas?" - SGT Mark Russak to Traitor Murtha)
To: The Mayor
Thanks, Mayor, for today's sustenance for body and soul.
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posted on
09/20/2006 9:03:33 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
To: Allegra
Have you gotten to visit your fur babies yet?
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posted on
09/20/2006 9:05:20 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
To: Kathy in Alaska
She got bored with that.She fell asleep with her head on the bottom of the cage standing up.I asked her what she was doing and she said "Hello"and laugh.
This next story comes to us from a former British soldier.
Dear Sir,
It is with extreme interest that I read your website and its contents. Although I do not disagree with you about the myths and fables told about the camel spider, I ask you to consider the shock experienced by anyone being awakened at night by one of these creatures. In fact, the reason for my contacting you is to tell you a story.
In 1968/69 as a British soldier I spent a 9 month tour of duty in The Arabian Gulf (Bahrein, Oman, Sharjah). As part of a joint British Army/Trucial Oman Scouts group we set up a tented camp in Oman. One morning a Grenadier Guards sergeant (6feet 4inches of pure muscle) received the hock of his life and fainted from that shock when a camel spider dropped from the roof of the mess tent right into his breakfast!
As I said earlier we all heard the stories of anaesthetization before ingestation, but I wonder how many hundreds of years those tales have been in existence?
Yours sincerely
ex-sergeant
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posted on
09/20/2006 9:06:31 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: TASMANIANRED
They play with them.Karen said when they got bored they would burn them.
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posted on
09/20/2006 9:09:07 PM PDT
by
fatima
To: Allegra
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posted on
09/20/2006 9:09:54 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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