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12-03-03, 02:51 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: St. Louis, MO
Age: 46
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How's this for a surprise
How would you like to find this next time you went shopping???
http://www.msnbc.com/news/998332.asp?cp1=1
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1.2 Bearded dragons (Login, Raven, & Jean Grey) 1.1.1 Corn snakes(Havoc,Sable, & Kink0 1.5 Leo's (Psyloke (Lucky-male) Speedball, Domino, Rouge, Siren, Elektra) 1.0 Veiled Chams (Neo), 0.1 Rose Hair T. (Night Crawler) 0.0.3 Crested Geckos (Shiva, Storm, Beast) 0.2 Kenyan Sand Boas (Tigra & Cloak)
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12-03-03, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: Nov-2003
Location: Iowa
Age: 43
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Next time I go shopping for grapes, I'll take a jar so I can catch 'em if I see them  .
laters,
Bill
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12-03-03, 05:14 PM
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Join Date: May-2002
Location: Leader, SK
Age: 46
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lol! Yea, I'd join Bill too! lol! Just imagining two guys dressed in a safari suit with jar, creeping up to a bunch of grapes in a supermarket!
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"The day I tried to live, I wallowed in the blood and mud with all the other pigs" - C. Cornell
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12-03-03, 05:16 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Quote:
Originally posted by Vanan
Just imagining two guys dressed in a safari suit with jar, creeping up to a bunch of grapes in a supermarket!
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LMAO i completly pictured seeing that!!!!
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1.2 Bearded dragons (Login, Raven, & Jean Grey) 1.1.1 Corn snakes(Havoc,Sable, & Kink0 1.5 Leo's (Psyloke (Lucky-male) Speedball, Domino, Rouge, Siren, Elektra) 1.0 Veiled Chams (Neo), 0.1 Rose Hair T. (Night Crawler) 0.0.3 Crested Geckos (Shiva, Storm, Beast) 0.2 Kenyan Sand Boas (Tigra & Cloak)
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12-03-03, 05:20 PM
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Join Date: May-2003
Location: Vancouver Island
Age: 40
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LMAO And with a net too!
Jenn
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12-03-03, 05:45 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 280
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I totally had one of these guys go onto my hand while pulling an old bike out from the shed at my uncles home in Australia...it was hiding under the seat and i put my fingers literally centimeters away from it...it decided to crawl over them and i looked...and flicked....it fell onto the ground...scared the **** outta me.
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12-03-03, 05:54 PM
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Join Date: Aug-2003
Location: AB
Age: 42
Posts: 101
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This summer I bought a crate of grapes to make wine, and there was a Black Widow spider in it.
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12-03-03, 06:28 PM
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Join Date: Sep-2003
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Age: 49
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I worked 10 years in a fruit and vegetable department (when I was a student) and I picked up a total of 3 black widows in grapes from California... I was a very happy customer!LOL They are now dead but I never enjoyed the fruits as much!
Ranmasatome, you were in Australia you are the luckiest person in the world, not much because of the Australia trip but because this might have been what they call a Red Back. I do not remember the latin name, but this is truly a deadly species much more venomous then Latrodectus mactans (L. mactans must feel like a mosquito bite in comparison to it's Aussie cousin!)... do you remember if it had a long red stripe on the abdomen (not the hour glass) if yes, this must have been the time you were the closest to your death! But they have anti-venom down there...
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12-04-03, 09:26 PM
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Join Date: Jan-2003
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I should get some more grapes to see if lucky enough to pick up one or two. is there anyone keeping latrodectus here?
ETET
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Ha! Ha!
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12-05-03, 01:44 AM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Trip?? i don't really do trips there...i go for visits...half my family is there...so i'm there quite often...but yeah...i know what you mean...i've seen many of these guys over there..and frankly speaking...i dont really like them..this was the only time it ever made contact with my body...as in touched me..the rest of the times..they were just like next to me and stuff...
a walk into my uncles shed and you can easily find 3-7 of them if you try...almost as common as those damn funnelwebs.
Australia is filled with tons of venomous stuff..in fact almost all the most deadliest snakes are from there...needless to say spiders as well..with funnelwebs and what not...But i workin my way to be a herpetologist...i gottal love the place 'mate.
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12-05-03, 01:47 AM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
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and yeah...they are red backs...the conversation went something like...
"man you reckon it was a red back?"
"it right there go check it out!"
my cousin and i walk over.....
"geez 'mate...good thing you didn't panic!"
"i'd say..."...whew...
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12-05-03, 09:45 AM
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Join Date: Sep-2003
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Age: 49
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he he, yep Australia is the place, hopefully I will go there once in my life...
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12-05-03, 09:55 AM
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Join Date: Sep-2003
Location: Darwin, Australia
Age: 37
Posts: 46
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haha living here.... we see em all the time (red backed spiders) and most people regard them as pests and kill them on sight.... I don not personally like spiders at all.... but i just put em in a jar and take em out the back.... next time i find one... ill be sure to post pics up for u guys 
Cheers
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12-05-03, 12:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
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hahaha...thats awesome brodie... you do the jar thing also?hahahaha...i remember the jar "overflowing" a few times in the house....it was hilarious...my cousin and i freaked!..hahaha..
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12-05-03, 12:29 PM
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Join Date: Sep-2003
Location: Darwin, Australia
Age: 37
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hahaha yea heeps scary! i had a red back crawl on my arm out of a jar that didnt have the lid on properly once... VERY SCARY..... oh wells i just sat still with it on my arm and it eventually crawled on to the jar..then i just tossed into the bushes....haha... ill stick with my snakes thanks 
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