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wbassett:
Don't have to be down south or out west for those nasties!

I grew up in the corn belt farm country of PA and it gets pretty cold there too in the winter and we had rattlers and copper heads all over the place.

Spiders though...  When I was living in Virgina my wife called me at the base one time, she was frantic.  She said she killed a spider and said it was a tarantula or something.  My three year old daughter said it was a 'monster'.  Anyway, she said she clubbed it with an empty 2ltr soda bottle.  I laughed and asked if she heard it 'crunch' and she said no.  I explained it wasn't dead then.  When I got home she showed me where she threw a news paper over it and 'clubbed him to death'.  Of course when I lifted the paper nothing was there.  I basically gaffed it off.

A couple of weeks later I was sitting at my desk and I saw something out of the corner of my eye scurrying along the baseboard and go up into the area around the dish washer.  It was pretty big and I assumed it was a mouse. 

We called the exterminator and he pulled the dishwasher out and went looking around and man did he come out of the cubby fast!  It was the spider I saw not a mouse!  He killed it and then told us it was about to have babies!  Nice!  I still don't know what this thing was, it wasn't a tarantula (as far as I know they aren't native to VA) but it was almost as big as my wife's hand!

I HATE spiders!
ChadTower:

Okay, I lied.  From time to time you find ugly, nasty, filthy, Atari project cabs in my yard. 
shmokes:
I'd wager that icy roads kills an order of magnitude more people per year than all the creepy crawly things in the country combined.  And driving in a blizzard makes me infinitely more nervous than the random possibility of coming across a poisonous snake.  And god knows I've ran into more blizzards in my life (more than I can count) than poisonous snakes (exactly two, and they were babies--only about 18" long).

Also worth noting, I see no reason why New England would have no hobo spiders, black widows or brown recluses.  All of them live the mountain west where we get lots of snow and sub-zero winter days.

Speaking of scary critters, they're not always small.  I've seen alligators and crocs hanging out on my school's campus at least a dozen times.  :)
ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on December 05, 2008, 03:36:25 pm ---I'd wager that icy roads kills an order of magnitude more people per year than all the creepy crawly things in the country combined.  And driving in a blizzard makes me infinitely more nervous than the random possibility of coming across a poisonous snake.  And god knows I've ran into more blizzards in my life (more than I can count) than poisonous snakes (exactly two, and they were babies--only about 18" long).
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While that's true, I have never actually known anyone who was killed due to icy roads.  People here get killed by crappy driving on icy roads but they also get killed by crappy driving in July.  Crappy driving knows no seasons.  I don't count someone going 70 in a snowstorm as being killed by the conditions.  They're being killed by their own stupidity.



--- Quote ---Also worth noting, I see no reason why New England would have no hobo spiders, black widows or brown recluses.  All of them live the mountain west where we get lots of snow and sub-zero winter days.
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I've lived in trash apartment buildings, a couple houses, a mobile home... never seen a spider bigger than a nickel here that wasn't a daddy long legs.  My kids and I do tons of hiking, too, so they don't seem to be in the woods either.  We do have lots of ticks, though.  Gotta be really careful about lyme disease.




--- Quote ---Speaking of scary critters, they're not always small.  I've seen alligators and crocs hanging out on my school's campus at least a dozen times.  :)

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Only thing like that around here I've seen are snapping turtles.  Big ones.  They won't kill you but they'll take a BK Whopper sized chunk out of your flesh if you get too close.  Turkeys will get aggressive and try to eff you up but you can give them a swift kick in the giblets and they go away.   ;D
amerish:
I was so going to take a picture but the memory card in my camera was full and I did not want the spider to crawl under the arcade.

Well on the bright side, the wife said that the arcade can come back into the living room to help keep the kids safe while playing it.

Of course this means I need to break it down completely and inspect for any more "friends" before I bring it it.

Now I just need to figure a way to get the pool table and air hockey table into the home.... Perhaps I can get rid of the dining room table...
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