This, quite frankly, is the most horrible thing I have ever seen. WARNING: Contains Spiders.

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They run 10 mph, jump three feet, are a nocturnal spider, so only come out at night unless they are in shade. When they bite you, you are injected with Novocain so you go numb instantly. You don't even know you are bitten when you are sleeping, so you wake up with part of your leg or arm missing because it has been gnawing on it all night long. If you are walking around and you bump something that is casting a shadow over it, and the sun makes contact with it, you better run. It will instantly run for your shadow, and scream the whole time it is chasing you.

p.s. The one on the bottom is eating the one on the top. These are found daily in Iraq by troops

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― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit, sorry the picture wasn't supposed to appear. Will get the moderator....

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

It hasn't, for me anyway...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

look at the scale - the hand in the foreground, being the size it is, means the two spiders are not as big as they first appear. and the screaming bit is fishy.

― daz ad, Friday, 30 April 2004 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

It's kind of disappointing to get one of those Geocities 'not available' pages but I wouldn't say it's that horrible.

― robster (robster), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted to see the horrid flesh eating spiders, as well. :-(

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

One moment please.....

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/camelspider.htm

-> this is the same type, no?

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the bunny. Cheers.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, that picture makes them look bigger than they actually are but still, uurrghhh!!

They resemble the Alien face-hugger thingies.

― robster (robster), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Yuk, I felt quite queasy looking at that pic. What are those horrid mushroom-shaped bit on the lower one?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

― Frühlingsj4n (Wintermute), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I got sent this, it's pretty horrible!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

not as horrible as the possibility that this photo - currently doing the worldwide office circuit - is stealth advertising by Evian (blurred in background)

― daz ad, Friday, 30 April 2004 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=sydney+funnel+web+spider+photo&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&sa=N&tab=wi&sourceid=tipimg

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 30 April 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Looks like this was the big war-related April Fool of 2003. No, there really is such an animal as the camel spider, but its powers of ingestion have been highly exaggerated. An email was going around the Internet last week that claimed that the troops in Iraq were encountering camel spiders and discovering all kinds of amazing facts about the creatures.

In reality, camel spiders aren't some mysterious Arabian creature -- we have them in the United States and in Mexico, where they are called matevenados. They are slightly smaller than the human hand, and while they do run quickly, their top speed is 10 miles per hour, not 25. But they also make no noise, they excrete no venom, and although they can be voracious nocturnal predators, they don't eat camels. They eat delicious crickets and pillbugs, and sometimes scorpions."

― GG Marquez, Friday, 30 April 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my God, that photo is horrible! I'm going to throw up! I need some water... but not just any water. I want a water that's refreshing and crystal clear. On second thought, perhaps a delicious cricket or pillbug.

― jazz odysseus (jazz odysseus), Friday, 30 April 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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