There is a town in India called Sadiya and the people in that town are all ready to leave and make a run for it. The reason? Swarms of spiders have invaded the town and so far two people have died and countless others have been hospitalized. No one knows what the breed of the spider is but officials say it is not native to the town. So, one day everything is fine in the town and no one has ever seen this spider and the next day there are swarms of them? They must have come from somewhere. The spiders actually look for something to bite and are aggressive even to humans. How aggressive? If you pass one of them it will jump on you and latch on and bite. More reason for me to keep myself locked up in the house. Scientists there think it might be the Funnel Web spider which is a very scary spider. I don't know how they don't know. If there are swarms, can't someone catch one? (Thanks Callie)
Thanks Enty. I didn't want to sleep tonight anyway.
ReplyDeleteOkay, this had better be a joke. This can't really be happening. I'm not going to google it, because it's NOT REAL NOT REAL NOT REAL NOT REAL
ReplyDeleteHoly shit, India just replaced Australia as Scariest Fucking Place on Earth.
ReplyDeleteWell said!
DeleteI read that the two fatalities went to a witch doctor instead of the hospital - who cut open their bites with a razor and burned the blood. I think this may be a case of hysteria in a small rural village.
ReplyDeleteHoly s@$&, they've finally made their first move in their plot to take over the world! I DON'T WANT TO LIVE ANYMORE!!
ReplyDeletewho saw ARACHNOPHOBIA by Franck Marshall produced by Spielberg?it's a movie from 1990 with the same story
ReplyDeleteI thought it said INDIANA, not India. That's far enough away that I can relax a little. Helps if you read, mik. Jeesh.
ReplyDeleteI would like to welcome our new spider Overlords and also, only as a courtesy, book them a flight to Paris. You know, just to sightsee, have some pastries and oh...maybe have a chat with a certain Canadian Crazy Person. Salve!!
ReplyDeleteor just have a chat with any of the French. .
ReplyDeleteOh, I loved that movie Arachnophobia. It does sound just like that!
ReplyDeleteOMG please remove the picture. I am now imagining spiders in my office.
ReplyDeleteOH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD IT'S GOT TEETH DO NOT WANT DAMN YOU ENTY
ReplyDelete...and this is why I don't mind having my luggage searched thoroughly when I travel to different countries.
ReplyDeleteNot native to the place, those poor folks. That means there is nothing already in place to combat the insects.
Hopefully now that it's on their radar they can do a massive pesticide sort of thing. Nothing but shame on the idiot who brought them there. Even if they didn't mean to, people have died.
Hey it could be worse. He could have posted pics of Blohan and Kim Kuntrashian tagteaming Chris Hemsworth.
ReplyDeleteThey need to find its natural predator to kill the spiders. Haha, just thought, instead of charlottes web, it wld be Chucky's Web! Lol
ReplyDeleteNever forget Cane Toads!
DeleteRead on CNN last night - they now doubt both deaths. One appears to have been a snake bite and the other didn't seem to have been bitten by a spider.
ReplyDeleteSensational journalism.
Assuming this is true, Is there a flood nearby the village? Could be a similar to what happened in Australia during their floods. The spiders sense danger and move away from there home, or in Australia's case move up. Also could explain them being aggressive. Sudden flood come along would probably make any animal antsy. I had just been thinking I'd like to visit India sometime soon too. Ugh. I'll wait.
ReplyDeleteJesus Fucking Christ!!!!! Did you not read the comments about the phobias??????? Good Jesus, I thought this was a safe site and they you put up a picture of that?????? For the love of God, remove it. Oh God, now I'm going to start hyperventilating.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm extra freaked out about the spider in my kitchen that I killed this morning. Thanks, enty.
ReplyDeleteAHHHHHH Amber
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, you just officially creeped out someone who is rarely creeped out.
Waking up to a huge daddy long legs eating the crust out of my eyes? WTF?
Amber, I'm so sorry for your SIL. I read about Australia on Cracked and holy mother of pearl, why do people live there voluntarily?!
ReplyDeleteAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Put it away!
ReplyDeleteIm freaking out about giant spiders sitting on my face eating the crust on my eyes.
ReplyDelete@amber - I think we are in a fight. Because that scares the poop right out of me. Omg.
ReplyDeleteIndeed Ano, I think I'd rather they kill me and be done with it
ReplyDeleteYou guys are making me giggle! Spiders do not bother me at all. Now a snake on the other hand...........I will freak the fuck right on out!
ReplyDeleteOh. My. Fucking. God. All my nightmares come to life! Ahhhhhhh!!!!!
ReplyDelete@Amber... In the nicest possible way, I hate you now.
ReplyDeleteI'm in the waiting room at the opticians and I made this really loud "GAAARGH" noise when I read about the eye crust. Everyone's looking at me like I'm a freak now.
I haven't laughed this hard in weeks. Sorry folks but thanks! @Amber I feel certain there are all kinds of voodoo dolls with pins in them bearing signs that say "Amber" right now. (I'm looking for one to buy on Ebay mayself). Holy shit! I'm mostly cool with the spider thing. After those giant furry bitches in Florida, they don't bother me anymore. Now Aligators? Whole other story
ReplyDeleteLOL. I'M SORRY! Think about puppy dogs, rainbows and candy canes!
ReplyDeleteCan't evil spiders ate them!
DeleteWow how did this become bash Australia thread? I lived there for 4 years and never once saw a poisonous spider. I did see 2 Huntsmen - which are scary looking because they're so big, (and look nothing like daddy long legs btw, but they have those too) but they are harmless. I only saw 1 poisonous snake and it was in a nature reserve where it was supposed to be. Australia is not some wild untamed place to be scared of, Melbourne is a city of 4 million people and Sydney is 6 million. They are huge metropolitan cities, with no more danger from spiders and snakes than NYC.
ReplyDeleteObviously if you go traipsing around the outback, the risk goes up a little but no more so than the wilderness of the US. In fact, Aussies think of Canada and the US as being more dangerous because we have bears and cougars. And based on the number of encounters with humans every year, they are probably right.
'I say we take off and nuke the place...its the only way to be sure."
ReplyDeleteChar - I didn't mean they LOOK like daddy longlegs. I just meant they're common & harmless like a DLL. :)
ReplyDeleteNever sleeping again!!!! Gah!!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to share Amber's story with my sister-in-law. Muahahaha
ReplyDelete@EmEyeKay - I thought the same thing, I thought the post said Indiana. I feel a little better about it being further away from here. But not much.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've seen pictures of the Huntsman. Be glad it's a pic of this little guy, and not one of those. They are Alien facehugger big.
ReplyDeleteArachnophobia, indeed. Although this one appears to be playing pretty decent zone defense, anticipating a pull-up jumper from the Kobe Bryant of spiders.
@EmEmKaye - your comment made me laugh out loud - can you imagine the hysteria if they were in Indiana? People storming grocery stores, Home Depots, etc, looking for bug spray....Cable news channels on 24 hour alert.....people freaking out in the street....mass exodus from Indianapolis....
ReplyDeleteNot making fun of those poor people in India. All it takes is 1 pregnant spider to get in the luggage compartment of a trans-oceanic airplane.....
Harmless or not, on my face licking my eyes..you're going to be shot. Or squished, in the case of the mutant daddy long legs
ReplyDeleteUnless your name is Adrian Paul.
Holy mother of Fuck. First the story, then the picture and now Amber's story. This is horrifying.
ReplyDelete@SusanB, NOW I'm laughing about the visual of The Indy Mass Exodus... much less freaked out about the spider, so THANK YOU.
ReplyDeleteI think I am just going to stay indoors forever now, thank you.
ReplyDeleteomfg
ReplyDeleteWhy did I google the huntsman spider?
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't used to be afraid of spiders...
Not googling... Not
ReplyDeleteGoogling.....
Lol @ Vicki's post..too funny!
ReplyDeleteUgh..triple ugh! I hate the picture showing the fangs and Amber's story..oh wow..something to visualize (not).
I hate finding something crawling on me...just hate it!
I'm not generally afraid of spiders but agressive swarms are another story. And I was in Oz and never saw any cool spiders but I did see some other cool bugs. It was totally awesome for me. BUT...if that huntsman was on my face I would totally freak. Oh the worst part would be to wake up and have it on your partners face.."Uhm , honey, now don't freak out..."
ReplyDeletesounds like the plot of a Stephen King novel. Blech. I am not askeered of most bugs but these guys sound skeery.
ReplyDeleteGoddamn it now I keep feeling something crawling on me. Like the Kardashian-Free February, can we get a Sans-Spiders Summer???? TAKE THE PICTURE DOWN NOW.
ReplyDeleteAlso, add me to the reading comprehension-challenged. I also read "Indiana" and my Wisconsinite eyes got real big. O_O
Appearently the spiders have been identified as a type of highly aggressive Tarantula and they aren't that venomous. Here's an article from yesterday. It's mostly a re-hash of an older article but the last few paragraphs have some updated information.
ReplyDeletehttp://economictimes.indiatimes.com/environment/flora-fauna/tarantulas-invade-assam-town-kill-two/articleshow/13753398.cms
I should also add that there is a photo of the spider's in the article. It's not pretty.
ReplyDeletei just googled the huntsman spider and it said that it can also be found in the warm southern parts of the US
ReplyDeleteHuntsmen are friendly, lovely creatures who will eat all the mozzies and other bugs that are twice as horrible and annoying.
ReplyDeleteis this a good time to tell you about the python that lives under my house and eats all the rodents? or what about the goanna at the bottom of the garden? or the blue tongue n the garden who eats all the snails and bananas.
:) i've got more. there are WAY more scarier spiders than huntsmen...
The huntsman seems to be a social spider. The males leave very nicely with the females, which is unusual for spiders.
ReplyDeleteI always thought spiders were cool.
@vickie -- did you see where the a variety of the huntsman that lives in Laos can be 12" across -- imagine waking up to that SOB on your face, lol. BUT -- the huntsman DO tend to eat roaches, so I'm ok with them :D
ReplyDelete@Char, I am Austalian. How did you only see 2 Huntsman? Those mother f**kers stalk me! One once hid behind my front screen door. I saw the legs poking from the top, rang the doorbell and screamed spider as my husband opened the solid door. I hate spiders.
ReplyDeleteHuntsmen are fine. The Sydney funnel web freaks me out. We are lucky here at Bondi there aren't any but my brothers friend had to have anti venom two summers ago when he was bitten by one that was laying at the bottom of the pool. He lives at Avalon and he said his backyard is full of them and they come out at night in summer.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who actually likes spiders (they eat smaller, nastier pests who in the long run, do humans much more harm), I'm giving this story a big side-eye.
ReplyDeleteHere's an impression of me in India: *dies* The end.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, a spider a lot like this was found in somewhere like Bemidji Minnesota last year, came on fruit bought at Wal-Mart/Sam's Club (they think). The spider was not just meandering, but making a straight line for a woman's child (or grandchild) so the woman bravely stood in front of it, a few feet away, planning to stomp it. It arched its back, like in this photo, and JUMPED onto her from several feet back, and bit her. Immediately she began to feel the effects of the poison but managed to call 911 and get an ambulance out there. She had to be hospitalized. I've lost some of the details in memory because reading the article was like reading the script of my VERY WORST NIGHTMARE!
*dies again*
Thanks Amber and Char....now "Snow White and the Huntsman" takes on a whole new meaning....
ReplyDeleteYuck.
I read this story this morning and tonight, I go to feed my dog. I think I see a huge spider next to her bowl and I think I see a red hour glass. Got my flashlight and sure as shit, it's a friggin' black widow. I ran around my house looking for my scorpion killing powder. Now I have a dead black widow, next to my dog's bowl. I hate life sometimes.
ReplyDelete"Contrary to a commonly held belief, no funnel-web spider is able to jump, although they can run quickly."
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_funnel-web_spider
Might want to fact checkj a bit more next time. Just saying.
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