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It's not because of the lack of coasters, or the 20 hours on a plane...it's because in Australia many things are backwards or the wrong way...including Spiders that eat Birds!!!!

 

NOT COOL!!!

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Apparently this is not a fake. It's a real spider, eating a real bird. It is because of stuff like this that I'm not in any real hurry to get back to Australia!!!

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Ever see a manhunter spider? (I think that's what it's called).

My girlfriend's aunt showed me a pic of one from when she lived in Australia. The things apparently come into your house, hide (in places like under your bed blankets), and when you get near it, will actually chase you.

 

I won't be living there anytime soon.

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Australia--Where Nature has more ways to kill you than any other place on Earth.

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Yes .. now I get to post pictures of Clock Spider!!!

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And a close-up! These are actually reasonably common in Australia, but relax they're totally harmless .. no venom at all. They are actually really cool, as they eat lots of really annoying bugs (including other poisonous spiders!).

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Once removed, it reveals a huntsman spider!

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A guy comes home and finds what looks like four g-i-a-n-t spider legs sticking out from behind his clock..

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^Even if they are harmless, I still would never want one around me. While I'm not scared of most spiders, I'd run if I saw one of those in my home.

 

As for the spider eating the bird, I didn't think it was real when I saw it on the Fox News website a few days ago, and knowing that it is real, it is amazing(and scary) that spiders can be that big.

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Oh. My. God. I would shit, piss, and vomit at the same time if I saw that.

 

I really think that about sums it up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vekoma "Might have a giant spider nightmare for the first time in 10 years tonight..." Fan Boy

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Hold on a second. What the hell were the idiots on last night's epsiode of MonsterQuest doing in Texas and the Amazon failing miserably in their quest for a giant spider. I guess those dopes should have been in Australia, if the picture is real.

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"...it's because in Australia many things are backwards or the wrong way...including Spiders that eat Birds!!!!" (SharkTums)

 

And all this time I thought it was a problem with Vegemite...

 

Eric

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I actually looked this up. Apparently the spider is a Golden Orb Weaver and the bird it's feasting on is a Chestnut-breasted Mannikin, a type of finch, which is at most 3-4 inches in length. So in reality the spider is probably only about the size of your palm.

 

In other words, the spider looks bigger than it really is.

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