Having had a bite on my leg I can say these are no fun. I spent a couple days in the hospital and have a scar resembling a bullet hole on my thigh.

One huge farking spider, how come I've always considered it pretty small?

RoyBatty: [i.imgur.com image 850x344]

One huge farking spider, how come I've always considered it pretty small?



PACKERS WON THE SUPER BOWL!

CavalierEternal: RoyBatty: [i.imgur.com image 850x344]

One huge farking spider, how come I've always considered it pretty small?

[roberthood.net image 345x297]

PACKERS WON THE SUPER BOWL!

Woooo!

Heh.

Indubitably: Heh.

This is demo-gone-wrong, exemplar.

She shouldn't die, you scaredy-cats, just necrosis.

Hee!

;)

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

just don't

They're a lot less dangerous that media makes them out to be. Most of the "brown recluse bites" that get reported...aren't.

So, uhm. Brown recluse bites cause necrotic tissue that has to be excised. Unless there's a giant hunk of flesh missing and a huge scar, somebody is lying.

andersoncouncil42: brown recluse bite

Looks anyway
/Oh MY GAWD

I was bit by one in Texas. I don't know why, but I poured ammonia on the wound immediately. It worked. I have just a slight scar.

I have a nice crater in my leg from a bite from one of those.

CavalierEternal: RoyBatty: [i.imgur.com image 850x344]

One huge farking spider, how come I've always considered it pretty small?

[roberthood.net image 345x297]

PACKERS WON THE SUPER BOWL!



PACKERS!

My reaction is too large for Fark, but SFW. If spiders are okay with your work.

How the hell did it even happen?

"Hey kids...look what I brought to show you all! There's a very poisonous spider in this jar....let's take it out! Here...let it crawl on your face."

the_wanderer: So, uhm. Brown recluse bites cause necrotic tissue that has to be excised. Unless there's a giant hunk of flesh missing and a huge scar, somebody is lying.

Not in all cases from what I've read.

Two years ago? This whole article reads like they just dug this from their archives and reposted it.
\Old news is exciting?

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

just don't

Jeez, I should listen more...

OTOH, I did find this item on them, and it's pretty informative.

Link

gja: Good grief! What the hell is IN that spiders bite?

Toxin, man, toxin...

Found this little baby at work last summer.

/No really. If you look closely it's abdomen is covered in babies.

I think the real WTF moment here is the district pointing out that they don't have a policy prohibiting teachers from bringing poisonous animals into the classroom. Uhh.. what kind of district *does* have such a policy? And how exactly would that make it okay for a teacher to deny medical attention to a child bitten by a poisonous spider?

the_wanderer: So, uhm. Brown recluse bites cause necrotic tissue that has to be excised. Unless there's a giant hunk of flesh missing and a huge scar, somebody is lying.

Not true. Most Brown Recluse bites result in nothing more than an itchy spot. Only a small amount of bites result in necrosis.

I let them live.

Indubitably: I let them live.

P.S. And I used to kill them...I've learned better. You might too.

Maybe it is just me, you can[t really exist without spiders within 10M of space.

Dr. Quasius: the_wanderer: So, uhm. Brown recluse bites cause necrotic tissue that has to be excised. Unless there's a giant hunk of flesh missing and a huge scar, somebody is lying.

Not true. Most Brown Recluse bites result in nothing more than an itchy spot. Only a small amount of bites result in necrosis.

Thanks for answering the question before I asked it.

I got into a lot of basements, attics, crawl spaces, and other places those little guys like to hang out. I have had to have been bitten before, probably more than once. I guess the severe reactions are some sort of an allergic reaction to the toxin.

say hello to my little friend

Wolf892: My apartment is full of brown recluse. It freaks me out late at night when they come out from hiding to hunt. My land lady wants me to catch them and release them outside. Nope, its the shoe each and every time. They are dangerous pests that need to take a cue from the black widow and stay hidden away from humans as much as possible.

I grew up in LA and I saw many black widows of the years in the (separate) garage in the tar paper next to the 2x4 framing. Never saw them anywhere else and they never moved. Really a beautiful animal and I am not terribly scared of it.

I am scared of scorpions though....

fusillade762: "The doctor (said) it's a fifty-fifty chance that she will pull through and a fifty-fifty chance she won't," Jones said.

F*cking 50/50 chances, how do they work?




I hope they have more evidence of the bite, because I can't see shiat in those pictures.

50/50 chance that she dies and a 50/50 chance that she goes to Disney World.

I like those odds.

Indubitably: gja: Good grief! What the hell is IN that spiders bite?

Toxin, man, toxin...

Now pay attention because
*puffs cigarette*
This pertains to you.
The brown recluse bears a potentially deadly hemotoxic venom. Most bites are minor with no necrosis. However, a small number of brown recluse bites do produce severe dermonecrotic lesions (i.e. necrosis); an even smaller number produce severe cutaneous (skin) or viscerocutaneous (systemic) symptoms. In one study of clinically-diagnosed brown recluse bites, skin necrosis occurred 37% of the time, while systemic illness occurred 14% of the time.[15] In these cases, the bites produced a range of symptoms common to many members of the Loxosceles genus known as loxoscelism, which may be cutaneous and viscerocutaneous. In very rare cases, bites can even cause hemolysis-the bursting of red blood cells.[16]

49% of brown recluse bites do not result in necrosis or systemic effects. When both types of loxoscelism do result, systemic effects may occur before necrosis, as the venom spreads throughout the body in minutes. Children, the elderly, and the debilitatingly ill may be more susceptible to systemic loxoscelism. The systemic symptoms most commonly experienced include nausea, vomiting, fever, rashes, and muscle and joint pain. Rarely, such bites can result in hemolysis, thrombocytopenia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, organ damage, and even death.[17] Most fatalities are in children under the age of seven[18] or those with a weak immune system.

Gargantuan. One rarely gets a chance to use that in a sentence.

For the record you guys need a power vacuum.

maxpower007: Found this little baby at work last summer.
[i70.photobucket.com image 640x480]
/No really. If you look closely it's abdomen is covered in babies.

Thanks for that.

There are some very large parts of this story that are being left out.

vossiewulf: "The doctor (said) it's a fifty-fifty chance that she will pull through and a fifty-fifty chance she won't," Jones said.

Good to see geniuses continue to be present in the medical field.

Liability.

/ recluse bites are most unpleasant

MrT: There are some very large parts of this story that are being left out.

It's called necrosis.

They like cool, damp places like basements, outhouses, behind your fridge...

vossiewulf: "The doctor (said) it's a fifty-fifty chance that she will pull through and a fifty-fifty chance she won't," Jones said.

Good to see geniuses continue to be present in the medical field.

Do you honestly think the doctor said that or the half educated nit wit who's trying to sue Fulton County Schools interpreted what the doctor actually said in her own special way?

Let me guess, the teacher brought it to school in a tightly fitted jar and the class brat, who she told 1.0x10^6 times not to open it opened it and is now in the hands of Darwin.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: 49%...meaning the majority of bites are far more serious. Thank you.

any bite
even a nibble

phlegmmo: While Jones' daughter survived the bite, she now suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Spider Disorder.

FTFY

Bullsh*t. She's developed neurosis from listening to her mother.

vudukungfu: Indubitably: gja: Good grief! What the hell is IN that spiders bite?

Toxin, man, toxin...

Now pay attention because
*puffs cigarette*
This pertains to you.
The brown recluse bears a potentially deadly hemotoxic venom. Most bites are minor with no necrosis. However, a small number of brown recluse bites do produce severe dermonecrotic lesions (i.e. necrosis); an even smaller number produce severe cutaneous (skin) or viscerocutaneous (systemic) symptoms. In one study of clinically-diagnosed brown recluse bites, skin necrosis occurred 37% of the time, while systemic illness occurred 14% of the time.[15] In these cases, the bites produced a range of symptoms common to many members of the Loxosceles genus known as loxoscelism, which may be cutaneous and viscerocutaneous. In very rare cases, bites can even cause hemolysis-the bursting of red blood cells.[16]

49% of brown recluse bites do not result in necrosis or systemic effects. When both types of loxoscelism do result, systemic effects may occur before necrosis, as the venom spreads throughout the body in minutes. Children, the elderly, and the debilitatingly ill may be more susceptible to systemic loxoscelism. The systemic symptoms most commonly experienced include nausea, vomiting, fever, rashes, and muscle and joint pain. Rarely, such bites can result in hemolysis, thrombocytopenia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, organ damage, and even death.[17] Most fatalities are in children under the age of seven[18] or those with a weak immune system.

Gargantuan. One rarely gets a chance to use that in a sentence.

You are pretty awesome right now.

Points for thoroughness.

Necrosis. ;)

need teacher's story.

My guess, the kid never handled the spider.

And what are those pics from? behind the ear and on the leg?

2 bites?

Jones filed a lawsuit over the situation because she claims not only did the teacher initially fail to do anything about the spider bite, but school administrators have ignored her phone calls and letters over the incident.


ahhhh, of course she did.

doglover: What can Brown (recluse) do for you?

Brown 25?
In a row?!!?!?

Britney Spear's Speculum: Let me guess, the teacher brought it to school in a tightly fitted jar and the class brat, who she told 1.0x10^6 times not to open it opened it and is now in the hands of Darwin.

I just remembered being in grade school and bringing spiders from home, in a jar, to cast in resin for some sort of science project.
None of us died.

fusillade762: F*cking 50/50 chances, how do they work?

Would you like to phone a friend or ask the audience?

Wolf892: My apartment is full of brown recluse. It freaks me out late at night when they come out from hiding to hunt. My land lady wants me to catch them and release them outside. Nope, its the shoe each and every time. They are dangerous pests that need to take a cue from the black widow and stay hidden away from humans as much as possible.

I typically have a no-kill policy for spiders I find here. But I live in Ohio, and there are no brown recluse here... yet.
Once they get here, it's going to be huntin season.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Indubitably: vudukungfu: Indubitably: gja: Good grief! What the hell is IN that spiders bite?

Toxin, man, toxin...

Now pay attention because
*puffs cigarette*
This pertains to you.
The brown recluse bears a potentially deadly hemotoxic venom. Most bites are minor with no necrosis. However, a small number of brown recluse bites do produce severe dermonecrotic lesions (i.e. necrosis); an even smaller number produce severe cutaneous (skin) or viscerocutaneous (systemic) symptoms. In one study of clinically-diagnosed brown recluse bites, skin necrosis occurred 37% of the time, while systemic illness occurred 14% of the time.[15] In these cases, the bites produced a range of symptoms common to many members of the Loxosceles genus known as loxoscelism, which may be cutaneous and viscerocutaneous. In very rare cases, bites can even cause hemolysis-the bursting of red blood cells.[16]

49% of brown recluse bites do not result in necrosis or systemic effects. When both types of loxoscelism do result, systemic effects may occur before necrosis, as the venom spreads throughout the body in minutes. Children, the elderly, and the debilitatingly ill may be more susceptible to systemic loxoscelism. The systemic symptoms most commonly experienced include nausea, vomiting, fever, rashes, and muscle and joint pain. Rarely, such bites can result in hemolysis, thrombocytopenia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, organ damage, and even death.[17] Most fatalities are in children under the age of seven[18] or those with a weak immune system.

Gargantuan. One rarely gets a chance to use that in a sentence.

You are pretty awesome right now.

Points for thoroughness.

Necrosis. ;)

It was thorough but misleading. This bug is a biatch. Don't fark wiith it. Just kill it.

csb:

Had a plumber under "my" house once, and he had pitted hands. Bragged of spider-bites.

P.S. His hands won't work anymore soon...

I got to the party late, couldn't make fun of the 50/50 bit any more.

"The doctor (said) it's a fifty-fifty chance that she will pull through and a fifty-fifty chance she won't," Jones said.

..........................DUH!!!

digitalrain: I've been stung a couple of times. No biggie
really.


It's the little ones you gots to worry about.

My worst experience with spiders happened when I was 14. I live in Illinois and me and two friends went up to a cottage on Lake Saint Clair in Michigan. It was summer and the cottage was not winterized. They got there ahead of me with their mom. I got there in the afternoon and noticed a couple spiders here and there. When the sun started going down it was like a freaking horror movie though. Bastards were everywhere. HUNDREDS of them. I think we were up until 4am killing spiders, and probably was only able to sleep because we were exhausted.

digitalrain: scorpions here in Florida aren't poisonous to humans

Vinegaroon. Whiptailed scorpions. I pur 'em out of my boots in the morning and feed 'em to the rattlesnakes under my bed.

My sister was bitten by one when she was in High School. Seeing my mom squeeze green puss out of it like it was a mutant pimple was one of the worst things I've ever seen. Too bad a megapixel camera in every thing you own and youtube weren't around back then.

maxpower007: Found this little baby at work last summer.
[i70.photobucket.com image 640x480]
/No really. If you look closely it's abdomen is covered in babies.

Wolf892: Erix: Wolf892: My apartment is full of brown recluse. It freaks me out late at night when they come out from hiding to hunt. My land lady wants me to catch them and release them outside. Nope, its the shoe each and every time. They are dangerous pests that need to take a cue from the black widow and stay hidden away from humans as much as possible.

You live in Canada? They're probably not brown recluse spiders unless someone is intentionally releasing them into your apartment. Made enemies with any spider breeders lately?

We have them on Vancouver island. That's where i live right now.

And if they bit? What then? Necrosis?

Makes you long for the good old days when teachers were just fuking their students

And you guys have a go at us Aussies for having poisonous wildlife, at least we don't have brown recluse spiders...

digitalrain: The first time my husband and I took the kids to No. Ga. on summer vacation,

Macon County Line.

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

Might be hobo spiders.

Those are the worse, had one bite me in the middle of the night while sleeping on my stomach, the venom drilled a hole into my stomach, the doctor had to pack over 18" of gauze in the hole daily, which hurt like a mother farker every time it did it.

Yes, I got a bullet hole sized scar there.

/guess it could be worse, marine friend of mine got bit by one in the ass, he said it was like he had two assholes

Wolf892: Indubitably: Wolf892: Erix: Wolf892: My apartment is full of brown recluse. It freaks me out late at night when they come out from hiding to hunt. My land lady wants me to catch them and release them outside. Nope, its the shoe each and every time. They are dangerous pests that need to take a cue from the black widow and stay hidden away from humans as much as possible.

You live in Canada? They're probably not brown recluse spiders unless someone is intentionally releasing them into your apartment. Made enemies with any spider breeders lately?

We have them on Vancouver island. That's where i live right now.

And if they bit? What then? Necrosis?

No idea. I hope that neither myself nor my wife have to experience that. Ill be pretty upset if we start losing chunks of flesh to something so small

That would require a perspective-switch, no?

i hate thes farking threads and yet i always come in.

"The doctor (said) it's a fifty-fifty chance that she will pull through and a fifty-fifty chance she won't," Jones said.

In other news, The UN's World Health Organization ranks the American Health System at #35 for quality, right after Costa Rica but (thankfully) ahead of Slovenia.

Maths is lessly for doctors

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.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: When my cousin was camping in TN, he was bitten on the scrotum by a recluse. Luckily he only had a mild reaction, no necrosis or scarring.

J.D. Salinger? Syd Barrett? Howard Hughes?

Podmore: I took this picture about two weeks ago. We're all luck it was me and not my wife who found it.
[s7.postimage.org image 640x360]

(pops)

Wait, isn't that the one that's worse than a Black Widow?

HOLY shiat IT'S 112 FEET LONG!!

PapaChester: "Diandra Jones told CBS Atlanta News that her child fell victim to the spider two years ago at Brookview Elementary School. That spider was a brown recluse. "

No no. The article isn't two years old. The mother is complaining that this happened TWO YEARS AGO, and is now trying to bring it to attention.

I don't expect quick, calculated responses from someone named "Diandra" though.

SoothinglyDeranged: Wolf892: We have them on Vancouver island.

Wait, we do? I've lived here almost my entire life and I did not know this? Well, I guess I know now, and that's good. I guess.

You don't have brown recluses in Vancouver Island - you have hobo spiders, which are a relative to the brown recluse. We have them in Oregon too.

Hobo spiders came, as an unwanted passenger, on a ship from Europe. They are all over the Pacific Northwest. I'm pretty sure we don't have brown recluses though - they require a warmer climate.

KellyX: Those are the worse, had one bite me in the middle of the night while sleeping on my stomach, the venom drilled a hole into my stomach, the doctor had to pack over 18" of gauze in the hole daily, which hurt like a mother farker every time it did it.

Yes, I got a bullet hole sized scar there.

/guess it could be worse, marine friend of mine got bit by one in the ass, he said it was like he had two assholes

A common complaint, among married women.

/Or so I'm told.

It was a case of show-and-tell gone wrong after a Fulton County elementary school teacher brought a poisonous spider to show her students - and one student was bitten.


Venomous, idiot.

How the hell did the kid get bitten behind the ear? I either think it was a complete coincidence or.....another student got it out of the jar. Regardless. buck up life is full of surprises.

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

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

When I went to school in Oklahoma, a local family regularly brought in their tiger cubs for show and tell. The buggers were as big as the second graders, and just wandered around the room messing with people.

More on topic: you couldn't go into the attic in our house in oklahoma without scattering a good two dozen of the damned recluses. Pops absolutely refused to let me or my brother help him get stuff out of the attic because of it.

Podmore: I took this picture about two weeks ago. We're all luck it was me and not my wife who found it.
[s7.postimage.org image 640x360]

I just think it's incredible that you potty trained that thing. It must of taken a lot of patience.

For the record, I was referring to the spider, not your wife.

doglover: Nuclear Monk: How the hell did it even happen?

"Hey kids...look what I brought to show you all! There's a very poisonous spider in this jar....let's take it out! Here...let it crawl on your face."

More like the teacher said "Don't freakin' touch this spider if you know what's good for you. Call your parents if you see one in your home. Hey! Snowflake McOveration! Don't you open the jar! Die Spider! *crush* Dammit, Snowflake, why did you do that!? You got bit? I don't see anything. Sit back down."


Pretty much fail all around to let people handle dangerous animals who have no training. If I had a brown recluse on hand, I would NOT let it around kids. They're very poisonous and not so hairy. Smooth spiders bite more. In insect size ranges, hair is like porcupine needles so very hairy insects and arachnids tend to be more relaxed.

Most likely scenario. Kids are stupid, and she likely did exactly what she was told not to. However, it is still the adult's job to know kids are stupid and NOT bring brown recluses around them.

doglover: [www.charlielemindu.com image 640x480]

I want one of these as a pet. I freaking love scorpions.

jst3p: It was a case of show-and-tell gone wrong after a Fulton County elementary school teacher brought a poisonous spider to show her students - and one student was bitten.


Venomous, idiot.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was bothered by that.

Wolf892: RoyBatty: Wolf892: My apartment is full of brown recluse. It freaks me out late at night when they come out from hiding to hunt. My land lady wants me to catch them and release them outside. Nope, its the shoe each and every time. They are dangerous pests that need to take a cue from the black widow and stay hidden away from humans as much as possible.

I grew up in LA and I saw many black widows of the years in the (separate) garage in the tar paper next to the 2x4 framing. Never saw them anywhere else and they never moved. Really a beautiful animal and I am not terribly scared of it.

I am scared of scorpions though....

You should be scared of scorpions they have a deadly finishing move. But if you introduce their natural enemy the "Sub Zero" the two predators will spend their time fighting it out and not bothering you.

I lold

Wolf892: SoothinglyDeranged: SoothinglyDeranged: Wolf892: We have them on Vancouver island.

Wait, we do? I've lived here almost my entire life and I did not know this? Well, I guess I know now, and that's good. I guess.

Okay so:

The brown recluse spider is native to the United States from the southern Midwest south to the Gulf of Mexico. The native range lies roughly south of a line from southeastern Nebraska through southern Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana to southwestern Ohio. In the southern states, it is native from central Texas to western Georgia and north to Kentucky.[3][4]

Despite rumors to the contrary, the brown recluse spider has not established itself in California or anywhere outside its native range.[5]

There are no Brown Recluse on Van Isle or anywhere in Canada. Do not do that to me, damn it.

I wish that were true...I really do. But in Victoria, I've had to kill nearly 15 of the browns in my basement suite. There are websites that do say we have brown recluse here. Also, Hobo's look really different, they have the boxing gloves on the front, while the recluse have the distinctive 6 eyes...I've checked with the mag glass to be sure.

I never see spiders here, just a LOT of silver fish.

Used to work with a gal that got bitten on the back of her upper thigh, and had the bite turn necrotic.

It looked like someone had just scooped a chunk out of her with a melon baller.

PapaChester: "Diandra Jones told CBS Atlanta News that her child fell victim to the spider two years ago at Brookview Elementary School. That spider was a brown recluse. "

No no. The article isn't two years old. The mother is complaining that this happened TWO YEARS AGO, and is now trying to bring it to attention.

I don't expect quick, calculated responses from someone named "Diandra" though.

Diandra....The kid doesn't stand a chance.

The kid lived? Maybe the teacher should bring in a black mamba next year.....or Philip Garrido.

*shudder* I don't fark with the brown recluse. If I see one, it goes squishkebab. No exceptions.

/my brother almost lost one of his thumbs due to a BR bite.

I grew up in a farmhouse in Indiana and got tons of bites from Wolf Spiders. They suck and hurt and itch but they aren't so bad.

About 5 years ago I was living in Kansas and this one apartment me'n the wife had was properly infested with Brown Recluse. I was terrified of being bitten and sometimes we found them on our bed!

Well, eventually it happened and I got bit. It didn't hurt at first, but the site got real hard and red. Normally a Wolf Spider bite is accompanied with a red spot about the size of a quarter, well this one was the size of a silver dollar and them some.

Luckily it went away on its own and didn't become necrotic. I ended up being bit several more times on the legs but nothing horrible occurred. I guess the point is that people probably get but more often than they know and pass it off as a nasty spider bite of benign origins.

I wouldn't recommend it, but BR aren't as bad as people assume.

I don't expect much from the comments here, but these are refarkingdiculous.

You really can't imagine how a child could get bitten when a teacher was negligent enough to bring a deadly spider to the classroom? Really? And some of you are blaming the child and the mother? Seriously?

You do know that spiders can jump and crawl, right? And a teacher stupid enough to not only bring the thing to school and then ignore the child's complaint of being bitten could very well have turned her back or left the children unattended with the jar/container with the spider.

fusillade762: "The doctor (said) it's a fifty-fifty chance that she will pull through and a fifty-fifty chance she won't," Jones said.

F*cking 50/50 chances, how do they work?


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I hope they have more evidence of the bite, because I can't see shiat in those pictures.

Yeah, they should have hired a professional to do the photography. Duh.

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?

We had a brown recluse infestation in our locker room in high school. I was one of the 3 guys bitten, but we were all fairly lucky and caught the bites before too much damage was done. No significant amount of necrosis on anyone. Seems like if you get treatment quickly it responds well with minimal scarring.

Just remember, kids: if you suddenly grow an extra nipple it might be a spider bite. Don't wait for it to become a puss filled golf ball.

Britney Spear's Speculum: Let me guess, the teacher brought it to school in a tightly fitted jar and the class brat, who she told 1.0x10^6 times not to open it opened it and is now in the hands of Darwin.

You're right, I can't imagine how the teacher could bear any responsibility in this incident!

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?

vossiewulf: "The doctor (said) it's a fifty-fifty chance that she will pull through and a fifty-fifty chance she won't," Jones said.

Good to see geniuses continue to be present in the medical field.

Doctors said that she has a 50/50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that. If I were them I wouldn't wait until the last minute to fill out those organ donor cards.

I really wish writers and editors would learn the difference between the terms "poisonous" and "venomous." Spiders are venomous, though I wouldn't be surprised if some were poisonous if you were to eat them.

Couldn't she just have sex with the boys like every other teacher in America?

RoyBatty: [i.imgur.com image 850x344]

One huge farking spider, how come I've always considered it pretty small?

so you'll go by the FOOT measurement but not the INCHES measurement

friggin retard

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.

;)