HotWingAgenda: Wait, what kind of sick fark has a pet brown recluse? And goes out of their way to bring it to a building full of small children?

I know! thoughtless...should've brought enough for the whole class...

ScotterOtter: the district does not have policy preventing teachers from bring poisonous animals into their classrooms

So, students can then bring tigers and lions to school because, you know, there isn't a specific policy against it

Or, they can't bring lions because they're NOT poisonous...

/has heard of dumber school policies
//venomous

Wolf892: shotglasss: Wolf892: LordOfThePings: Wolf892: We have them on Vancouver island. That's where i live right now.

Might be hobo spiders.

Yup, we have those too. As soon as possible I want to move to a high rise apartment and get away from them.

They'll crawl into the boxes as you pack them, and move right on in with you.

Yeah, I don't like them. Between the Black widow, the Brown Recluse, and the Hobo spider...I'm pretty much ready to connect with my Eskimo roots and move someplace that is covered in ice 24 7/365 days per year. Only then can we be free of these EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS!

Hmmm...perhaps spiders are behind global warming?

You know they covet the frozen northern tundra for their vast carpets of egg sacs...

andersoncouncil42: Do yourself a favor and DON'T do a GIS for brown recluse bite

just don't

Oh, come on. How bad could it....OH DEAR GOD, WHY??

This lady is full of crap.

/PTSD my ass.

Man do those idiots need a good suing.

I hope she gets $10 millions

Wolf892: The ones I find do look similar to that, but the legs are more slender and don't have the same amount of flesh hair. But I do find them in my shower and sink too so I would love to be convinced that's what they are.

Was it one of these guys?



I see these all the time in my apartment (northern Ontario.) I suspect they're some sort of funnel weaver, but I'm not sure... we also get many of the dark-brown Barn Funnel Weavers (Domestic House Spiders) with banded legs and these guys are lighter-coloured with uniform legs, and a little bigger, too. Probably have a legspan of about an inch and a half.

This one is actually carrying a small Common House Spider in its jaws.

For those with spider infestations: Suspend SC

/kills them good and keeps on killing 'em good for 30 days+

Podmore: Me: Podmore: Okay, I want more details. The teacher brought it for show and tell. I'm guesting she didn't bring it in her hand, it had to be in something, like a jar. So how did it end up on the side of the girl's face? Something doesn't make sense.

Um, let me take a stab at this. The spider escapes the jar while the child is holding it, it crawls up her hand to the arm, up the arm to the shoulder, up the shoulder to the neck, up the neck and bites.

Or it could have happened a number of other ways. Are you that dense?

Okay, first, I'm not seeing how a spider escapes a jar on its own - someone woulda have to open it. Second, if I've got a consumer with a deadly spider in it, and it gets out, there isn't a possible way it's getting up to my head. And no, that kind of spider does not have legs that support jumping.

It sounds fishy to me.

What sounds fishy? You don't think the teacher brought the spider? You don't believe the child really got bit? You think the little girl got herself bit on purpose so that her mother could then sue the school? WTF?

You're probably a troll, but I guess I'll bite. But let me suggest something: use your own imagination. It works a lot better than asking other people to explain every thing.

Okay, maybe the dumb ass teacher who brought the spider to class put 'air holes' in the lid of the jar and the spider slipped through one of the holes? Maybe one of the children opened the lid to take a look and did not close it back properly?

Maybe the spider was not in a jar at all (story does not specify) but in a different kind of container. Who really cares exactly how it happened? The teacher brought the spider to school, the child got bit, was in a lot of pain, and the teacher and school did nothing. I hope the child's family wins their law suit. The teacher and school were clearly negligent.

Ishkur: That's a Giant House Spider, Tegenaria duellica. Not to be confused with the typical House Spider, Hobo Spider, or Drain Spider aka European House Spider. They're all funnel web spiders but different species, only tangentially related.

So it is, eh? I'd seen the page but upon first glance didn't think that the spiders in the photos bore enough of a resemblance... taking a closer look, though, they do look like the same thing (with some differences in colouration, of course...) Thanks. Interesting, though, that I'm well outside their distribution, according to the illustration on the Wiki page...

"Kids, this is marijuwawna. Now, marijuwawna is bad, mm'kay? So I want you to pass this around and take a good look at it and maybe sniff it a bit so that when someone offers you marijuwawna you'll know what it is and be able to stay away from it, mm'kay?"

/rough paraphrase
//first thing I thought of
///can't believe no one's made this reference yet, unless of course I missed something

thisiszombocom: I hate these farking threads, and yet I always come in.

This, always this. Well, with added punctuation.

thegourmez: thisiszombocom: I hate these farking threads, and yet I always come in.

This, always this. Well, with added punctuation.

Agreed.

;)