My story begins about a week ago..


I was sitting here at my computer, doing the general everyday things that I do at my computer. In the corner of my eye, just to my right, I spot a small bit of movement down at the front of my computer case (which is conveniently located directly above my my mouse, where my right hand was situated...) Naturally, being the curious person I am, I turned my view from my monitor, and look at the front of my case. To my shock, I discover this small bit of movement was a huntsman(sp?) spider crawling out from underneath my case, and up the front. "OH MY ****ING GOD!" (or something simular) I shouted, whilst leaping from my chair to a safer part of the room. After briefly freaking out, crying, running around in circles and seeking counseling from a trained profession, I promptly beat the creature to death with a stick. I congradulated myself on the victory, and took some time to relax.

And then things got a whole lot better..

I woke up today at around 4pm, not entirely different from my usual 2pm wake-up time, but a little late, none-the-less. I had a shower, and moved out into the living room (still only wearing a towl from after the shower). I put on the TV, watched it for about an hour, and then decided to return to the computer. Not more than 2 minutes after I sat down, I once once again startled. Another spider. At first I thought it was a crazy moth flying along the side of my case, but then realized it was moving far too fast for a moth, and wasn't actually moving off the case. And then things got really bad.. When it stopped moving on the top of the case, and I finally got to get a good look at it, I had discovered what it really was. A baby huntsman spider. Now, at first I just thought "God damn stupid spiders! Do I attract these stupid things, or what?!" And then the truth dawned on me. That big huntsman spider wasn't crawling out from under the case, it was crawling out from inside the case.
I had to move quickly. I knew spider nests have a hell of a lot of baby spiders, and I'm terrified of just one big one. God knows how I would cope with 100 big ones..
My first challenge was actually unclipping the front of the case. Now, the front of my case doesn't actually have any screws, it simply just clicks on. And to get it off, you have to put your hand under the front of the case, and pull a lever forward. Now, this lever is exactly where that first big spider came out of, and also where the little one came from, too... But, I knew what I had to do. I ever so carefully put my hand under, and pulled that lever as fast as I could, the front clicked of, and I moved as far back as fast as I could.. Nothing. No movement... And then two little spiders ran out, one from the top, the other from the bottom. Yikes. At least it was only two..
I moved around to the back of the computer, and pushed the front panel forward. Now, usually it would just fall off, but I'd installed two switches to turn my UV lights on and off, and the wires ran into the box, so the front panel was pretty much hanging by those wires. I looked in... My suspicions were confirmed.. I saw the nest. It was inside a part of the front panel where the plastic for the power LED was. And inside the nest.. I could see about 5 little spiders. They were moving quite fast and randomly.. I had to think quick of what to do. Two more had just moved out. God only knows how many more there might be...
What to do.. I thought I could get a spray can of deoderant or something. No.. might get a few, but it would just scare the rest of them... And then it hit me. The bath. I went into the bathroom, and started filling the tub with hot water. I grabbed a plastic bag.. with a swift motion, I thew the bag over the front panel, and yanked it so the wires to the switches would come off (the wern't soldered on, so no damage was done). I knew there were no electrical parts in the front panel, so it would be alright to submerge it in water. I ran into the bathroom, and threw the front panel into the water. About 10 spiders came out of it. I ran back into the living room, trying to think of how to kill the others. A brilliant idea came to mind - hair spray. If it didn't kill 'em, it would dry hard and they wouldn't be able to move. Geinus.
I got one that was on the wall, but realized it wouldn't be a good idea to be spraying hair-spray all over my computer equipment. New plan.
And what a creative one it was.. The vacume cleaner. Bwuhahah! I got about 4 or 5 before going back to check on the front panel. To my utter disbelief, there were now about 30 or 40 spiders floating around in the water. Ew. I went back to continue hunting. I got a few more, but didn't really know how to make them come out, and I didn't even know how many had got out, or if any were left. I went back to the bath. Not many more in the tub, so I let the water out and started to wash the front panel out. Well, it turned out that some spiders hadn't come out yet.. they'd been trapped inside the front panel under the water. And as I was washing it out, at least another 50 or so spiders came out. And they just kept coming out, at about 2-3 at a time. They kept appearing out in the living room, too. Eventually I just got so fed up with it all that I left. I'd spent about an hour vacuming up spiders in here, and washing them down the drain in the bath. It was quite annoying. I went out for about an hour, had a milkshake, got some dinner, and came home. Got back, got a few more with the vacume (just as I was typing I got one more!) and got about 10 more out of the front panel.. Ugh. Not fun.

Well, It's about an hour after I've gotten home, and it appears there are still more running around out here, and probably more in the front panel, so I guess I've got some more cleaning to do.


Anyways, word of advice - If you ever see a spider crawling out of something, clean it.





[edit: Just got three more. One on the wall, one on my CD rack, and one on the back of a keyboard.]

[Another two.. CD rack and monitor...]

[And count one more from the front panel..]

[After further examination of the front panel, there could be more in there. Probably dead, but even dead one's are still too creepy for my liking.]

[And that's another one from inside the case..]

[Okay, make that two more, and one on the way. I was sitting down my computer, look under the table with a torch. I saw there were gaps behind my speakers where gaps where the could possibly be hiding. The speaker I was looking at was fine, so I flipped up the other one, and a spider ran out, but it was running really slowly. It was the second spider I hit with the hair spray! I promptly squished it. And the another one ran out of the top of the case, so I sucked him up with the vacume, and now there's a second spider inside the speaker that the hair spray one came out of.]

[Another one. Possibly the one from the speaker, but I'm not sure. He came out just as I was typing the last edit.]

[There's at least a dozen or so more inside the face plate of the case, which is still in the bath, and I just saw one more on the table, but the little bugger ran under the case before I could get him. I'll have to wait till he comes out again.]

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"When all else fails, eat pie."
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[This message has been edited by Jin (edited January 02, 2004).]

That has to be the most revolting, creepy and scary thing ever. Hundreds of spiders living in your computer. In your situation I would scream and hide in the bathtub, naked and crying.

I agree.

I HATE spiders. Spiders use to crawl on the wall next to my computer desk all the time. Luckily it seems to have stopped. Altho every now and then I hear something that sounds like a rat somewhere towards the top of the wall, like it's trapped or something... but there's nowhere for it to be trapped (Did I mention I'm in the basement, the wall is concrete, and at the top is nothing but a "ledge" formed from the depth of the wall?)

Anyway. Good luck with the spiders.

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Heh.. Bad times.

Yesterday, I thought I'd crush a big spider with my shoe.. The spider carried her eggs on her back or something, because when I did, all those little spiders started crawling over the floor.

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Farewell, MaDaVentor. In our hearts, you'll always live on.

Bad luck for you

I had some problem with ants couple of summers ago.. for two weeks there was no moment without an ant running somewhere. Luckily after that I've seen no ants roaming in my house...

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So you take them out of the vacuum cleaner and flush them? Because if not, they'll pretty much be multiplied...

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...why did I read that....why did I read that....

**** I hate huntsmen.

A couple of years ago my wife and I went on a holiday together west of Sydney. We stayed in this cool cabin in the forest. Very romantic.....very infested with huntsmen spiders. And not little baby ones, noooooo...big...angry...hungry adults. We found too many to detail, but here are the highlights:

1) My wife got up in the middle of the night and went into the bathroom. She'd just woken up so was still blinking when she was looking into the mirror, which for some reason showed a fuzzy blotch where her head should be. She leant in closer and blinked further to focus, I woke with the scream. Tried to kill it with spray-on deodorant, failed and it then hid behind the mirror...but it smelled cooler thereafter.

2) We had a shower....the towel rack was one of those heated ones and was on the reverse wall of the shower so I had to stick an arm out and reach around blind to get the towels. Shortly after getting them we came out and saw a big *** one sitting on the towel rack. Momma.

3) After fleeing the bathroom we were standing in the kitchen talking about how they are everywhere....looked up.....further evil eyes were watching us from a rafter above.

Blech.

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Cantina Cloud | BCF | The Massassian & A Very Massassian Xmas
Corrupting the kiddies since '97

God I'm glad I don't live in Australia. Huntsmen are just terrifying beyond all description.

Jin: If I was in your position, I would've set fire to my PC... :s

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Yeah, but how were we supposed to read that funny/sad/dramatic story then?

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Farewell, MaDaVentor. In our hearts, you'll always live on.

It's either you or the computer.

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

Be glad it wasn't terantulas, I guess...

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Do you have stairs in your house?

/me sets fire to this thread and flees arms flailing screaming like a little girl

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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

you have those 4 big fans in your case, you should've turned them on high see this is exactly why you should move somewhere colder and not Australia, very few spiders

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Except in Oklahoma. It's terrible here, though fortunately I haven't had many encounters lately! I got these things you plug in an outlet, and they send signals out that are supposed to disturb the nervous system of things like spiders. So far I've noticed they've worked, even though they use just line of sight. (The signals can easily be blocked by stuff)

The only reason why they tend to get in my room anymore is because a window's open that's next to some bushes. And I can't get to it from the inside because a bunch of stuff is blocking it. :\

Your story just gives me the creeps though.. I commend you for being brave enough to deal with it though. That would just be insane... I wouldn't of even been able to touch the tower. I would've just unplugged everything and sprayed the outer side of the case.

Somethin you might want to do is spray around your computer desk like on the floor and such. That way if a spider tries to walk across the floor, good chance it'll get infected with the spray. Just watch where you step...

Oh and cleaning up your computer area helps alot, I've noticed. Used to we had all the wires just pretty much laying in a bundle behind the desk, which attracted ALOT of BIG spiders.
We got a wall-mountable power strip though, and made sure the cords are neatly bunded and leading to the power strip. It's helped... it's alot more comforting to put your feet under a desk that doesn't have alot of dark areas on the floor.

I remember along time ago, my mom was cleaning the dresser in my sister's room. When she removed a couple of drawers, she found a nest with some adult Recluses.

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"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"

Momma..

recluses scare the **** out of me. I usually don't care for spiders, but recluses frighten me beyond imagination.

And after a google search on hunstmen spiders, I just gotta say, you and Jeff have some real bad luck, as these don't seem all too friendly.

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The thing about huntsmen spiders that gets to me.. is how they look. Big black eyes, fur, long legs... Ick. A little jet black spider with a big body and little legs doesn't fase me in the least. Why? Because I can't see it's eyes looking back at me, and with it's little legs, it just doesn't look like it could eat me. But a huntsmen.. They get big, and sometimes REAL big (When I was 12 I had one in my room.. would have been at least 20cm's in diamiter..). The baby one's can move like you wouldn't believe. They're really quite fast. The big one's are kinda slowish generally, but can move if they want to. But when they move slow.. Oh My God. Too creepy.

Anyways.. Time for the victory story. Bwuhahahaha!

I was standing in my living room (I was too scared to sit down anywhere) pacing around, flashing my flash-light everywhere (I had every light in the house on, the flash-light was just to help focus in on anything in shadows, and also to scare it so it would stop moving long enough for me to kill it.) It had gotten to the point where I knew at least 4 baby spiders were at the desk, alive, and I couldn't see them. I could have waited for them to come out.. but they were just getting too fast for me. And then it hit me.. I remember late one night I was watching the home shopping network. They had this thing on.. it was an electronic bug repeller (just like the one that Jedigreedo mentioned). Now, I was quite certain that it would be impossible for me to order one, and have it delivered that night, with it being 10pm and all, but then I remembered.. I'd seen a simular device in the supermarket before! And the supermarket closes at 12am! I promptly got my gear together and took off down the supermarket. However, to my shock, I couldn't find one anywhere.. But then I was struck by another memory.. the last time I was *****ing to Wendy about my bug problem, she mentioned a "bug bomb"... "Hrm," I thought to myself, "perhaps I should look for one of those."
So, I did. Sure enough, I couldn't find one of those either. -_-
But I did take notice of an interesting product.. an outdoors spray that you spray around your windows and such, to keep bugs out. It was a "kills on contact" product, too, so even if the bugs are dumb enough to trek into the sprayed area, they die.
I made a mental note of that product, and continue to search for a bug bomb.. to my delight, I did find one! In fact, I found one that had 3 bombs in it! Yay! I grabbed that, and grabbed the outdoors spray, just for good measure.

Now, the bug bomb is a "untra fine spray." You place the can in the middle of the room, click the locking button on the top of the can, and the contents of the can is emptyed. And in about 2 hours, it's safe to come back into your home, and 30 mintues after that it's safe to turn on any electrical appliences. It kills spiders, ants, cockroaches, slaters, flies, fleas, etc. This was exelent, because not only did I have spiders to kill, but I also have a minor ant problem, and also grass fleas have taken a liking to my carpet. I set one up in the living room and in my bedroom, and headed out. I figured I would be able to fill 2 hours easy, but after 9pm, there's not a whole lot to do. It was 11:30 when I set the bombs up, so there was really nothing to do. I managed to waste 40 minutes just wandering around before I came home. I figured I would spend the last hour and 20 mins just pacing around my front yard. -_- (I'd left the outdoor spary inside, so I couldn't even do that.. ugh.)
And then when I had about 40 mins left to kill, I had to use the toilet. Great. Well, I wasn't going to do it outside, so I headed in. My eyes and skin didn't catch on fire, so I figured if I just went to the toilet and got out of there, I'd be okay. On my way out however, I did notice in the bath that a moth and a small black spider were just lying dead in the tub. I guess the spray was working! I did also collect the outdoor spray, as well as a torch and my diskman on the way out, too. Yay! Music and I could spray all my windows to stop more bugs from getting in. I tested the "kills on contact" claim on the can, and it was definately correct. I did a complete cover of every window, door frame, vent, crack, and all around the perimiter of the house. I had to climb on the roof to get to some of the higher vents, which wasn't really fun, but it'll be good in the long run. The spray lasts for about 3 months, too. So hopefully it'll hold itself to that claim, too.

After the remaining wait time was up, I came back in. I grabbed the torch, and to my absolute amazment, I found 4 dead baby huntsmen spiders around my desk. I was very pleased. I took a circuit of the house, and found every roof corner was empty of daddy long legs spiders, and all the ones I did find were also dead. There wasn't a single moth flying around, and I couldn't even smell the odour of the bomb.

Jin: 1, Spiders: DEAD! BWUHAHAHAH!

This entire post that I typed, I was actually sitting in my chair, which is a lot easier than trying to stand up and type, like I had done with the first post.


I think tomorrow I might set off the last bomb, and perhaps get some more of that outdoor spray. (I'm one of those 'just incase' type people.)


Anyways.. um, Yeah. I still hate spiders.

[oh, and I also saw RotK yesterday, too. It'd just be my luck that I see a movie with a giant spider in it, and the next day a few hundred of them crawl out of my favorite and most used possession...]

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"When all else fails, eat pie."
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[This message has been edited by Jin (edited January 02, 2004).]

I've got a fair-sized wolf spider staring at me from the ceiling



this is a huntsman for the non-aussies, the ones we get over here are hairier though. this museum site reckons they grow up to 15cm across the legs?!? can't say I've ever seen them that big

a couple of my mates reckon they saw some half-metre long lizard-thing run into my backyard the other day, I dunno if it was the biggest, fastest bobtail ever or what...

At any rate it hasn't eaten the dog yet

Sweet baby Jesus... I started shaking when I saw that picture.. could you maybe just link it, instead of using the img tags? That thing just creeps me out too much... Ick.

I always thought huntsmen and wolf spiders were almost identical, except the huntsmen spider is non-venomous, and the wolf is venomous. Also the huntsmen spider will run away from you, while the wolf spider will raise it's front legs at you, ready to bite.
Or maybe I've just been mis-informed?

Anyways.. big and hairy = ick and scarey.

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"When all else fails, eat pie."
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[This message has been edited by Jin (edited January 02, 2004).]

I will never look at my computer case the same way again.

Damn, I hate spiders sooo much.
The way they walk is what gets to me.

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The End.
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no that's what I've heard too

you get Redbacks over there?

Oh there are much worse spiders in the world than huntsmen slug, I'm just a big pussy when it comes to spiders and huntsmen are big, ugly and way too common, ugh.

They aren't deadly or anything...a bite from one would hurt I imagine though Now an australian funnel web spider on the other hand...yeah...you don't want that biting you. I had to rescue my cat from playing with one once....lovely.

Apparently in the state where I now live in Australia they also have a "bird eating" spider about the size of a small house.....roughly....it's big ok?

Oh and while we're all freaking out over huntsmen, I also should mention the time a friend of mine quickly put on his baseball cap and didn't look first...then felt one crawling around in his hair. Anyway, sleep well tonight people!

*runs*

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Cantina Cloud | BCF | The Massassian & A Very Massassian Xmas
Corrupting the kiddies since '97

[This message has been edited by Jaiph (edited January 02, 2004).]

A... small... house....

...

*runs away*

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The End.
~ Wolfy

Down here we call'em chiggers.

Congrats on the victory! Man when you take'em down, you really take'em down.

That picture though, oof disturbing. It looks like the spider cronies in Arachnidphobia! And each of the stories with that spider in this thread sound just like scenes from the movie. *shudders*

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"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"

Huntsmen spiders bite, yes, but they're not at all venomous. There is another spider in Australia that looks amost exactly the same as a huntsmen, the only difference being it's venomous and raises it's front legs at you as it's defence (while the huntsmen will just run for dear life). I'm not entirely sure if the spider is called a wolf spider, but it's something simular.

We've got redbacks, but i've only ever seen one in my life.

And those bird eating spiders... sweet baby Jesus those things are big.. a hell of a lot more freaky than any huntsmen. So hairy.. big eyes... ick.

Oh, and Jaiph, you didn't need to rescue your cat! Cat's have an imunity to spider venom. I've seen my cat playing with all sorts of spiders. Funnel webs, white tales.. all the goodies. She'd just slap them around for a while, and when she got tired of their biting, she'd eat them.

Don't forget: In an average humans lifetime, they will swallow at least 8 spiders in their sleep.

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"When all else fails, eat pie."
-¬thoughts from beyond observance

Funnel web venom is deadly to... some kind of prey they like, primates, and very little else. We have a chemical in our blood with which the venom reacts, other animals such as cats, dogs, or rabbits dont. It's got something to do with the calcium in the blood I think... ahh I forget, saw it on Catalyst several years ago.

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There is no spoon.

We actually caught the funnel web spider that my cat was playing with in a glass jar and preserved it in....aw crap I can't recall what my dad poured in, killed it but preserved it.

Anyway he took it to work, sat on his desk and named it after his boss. Yeah, he didn't much care for that guy.

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Cantina Cloud | BCF | The Massassian & A Very Massassian Xmas
Corrupting the kiddies since '97

Heh, don't come up here. No no there aren't spiders. Lady bugs. Tons and Tons of Lady bugs.. Not the cute red ones, but the orange ones. Just one of them smells like bad sour cream, and we have thousands. And they all bite :|

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<Glyde> but.. you can't pick pickled peppers, even if a pickled pepper picker could pick pickled peppers!

Oh man. Spiders SUCK.

This reminds me of something that happened to me the other day...

I was getting clothes out of my drawer, getting ready to take a shower. So I grab a shirt, a blue button up. As I look down at my garb, I notice a brown tuft of lint; but as I moved to brush this "lint" off, it MOVED. Naturally, I freaked out, and threw the shirt across the room, where it landed next to my bed.

I took a few seconds to gather my nerve, grabbed a shoe and walked over to where the shirt had landed. I couldn't see the spider, so I quickly and girlishly flipped the shirt over. Nothing. I noticed, however, that my comforter had reached the floor in my nighttime restlessness, and it had descended right next to where the shirt had landed.

I slowly let my eyes follow the comforter up to the top of my bed, where I saw him. The little ******* was hairy, and at least the size of a quarter. Quickly, I smashed it with the shoe once. It was dead.

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Get busy living or get busy dying. - Andy Dufresne

Bah. Jin, you should have found some really loud, bass-intense music, and played it on full volume to get the spiders out of the speaker, and then you could position the speakers infront of the open computer, and nab the spidies with the vacume. Spiders sense vibration really easily (I'm pretty sure that's how they can tell if something's in their web), so the bass vibrating everything... Bwahahaha!

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

I was gonna mention earlier about my mate's house, but I figured I'd written enough.

anyway, his room has always got huntsmans in it, he says a couple of times he's woken up with one of the hairy buggers running over his face.

hope you're a heavy sleeper jeff...

Surprisingly, here in Texas, we do not get that many spiders. I rarely ever see spiders in my house, and probably havn't seen one for a good 3-4 monthes. During the summer monthes we also have our lawn sprayed, to kill all the bugs and then turn it into a "moat" of sorts for our house.

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Please frame your insults in the form of a question.

It's just a little gray spider, guys. It can't hurt you. You're still much bigger than it is, and it is probably more afraid of you than yo uare of it.

Black widows, on the other hand-- that's just something else.

I found a nest of widows inside an old metal trash can at my house once. I turned the thing on its side, and got a BBQ lighter and some hair spray, and I let the little b@stards have it with my homemade flamethrower.


At least no you can say that you've debugged your computer.


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[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited January 02, 2004).]

the 2 most dangerous spiders in South Carolina:
Black Wido, is black with a sploch of red on it's back that looks like a violen.
Brown Recluse, brown spider with an hourglass sploch on it's back.

PS this thread is discusting and makes my skin crall.

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No, you have it wrong. Black widows have the red mark on the UNDERSIDES, not the back. I've killed enough of them to know this.

I've never seen a recluse, so I wouldn't know about that one.



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Most people regard me as the dark and immoral side of Massassi. At least I'm getting what I want out of life.

Yes, and black widows have the red hourglass, I think.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

More like Jin 100+. That's quite a killcount there. That must have been utterly horrifying. I would have run out of my house screaming like a little girl and not come back unless I was wearing a protective suit and equipped with a flamethrower.

your story made me cringe and pull my legs up into my chair, especially since my case is on the floor to the side where i wouldnt notice movement. (happened with a cockroach, which freaked me out, i hate bugs)

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