News from Iraq! The Camel Spider!--CAUTION: IMAGES

Platapus · 06-17-08, 04:03 PM

Crikey! Put a saddle on that monster and you can ride it.

I wonder if that would be the biggest spider in the world but I am really afraid to ask

Steel_Tomb · 06-17-08, 04:07 PM

Yeah my dad came across a few of those during his tours over there, they're bloody nasty things. Give a nasty bite too. Aparantly my dad said that when they only had very basic toilet facilities i.e. a tube into the ground for peeing into critters would hide in there away from the heat so you had to be careful not to get your family jewels nipped by some local wildlife

Platapus · 06-17-08, 04:12 PM

thats the last thing one of our military men needs to be worried about. Having some great big spider nipping at your old man.

Ducimus · 06-17-08, 04:41 PM

I had something like this:
http://www.camelspiders.net/camel-spider-bite.htm

happen on the back of my left leg, just above the knee. Only it wasn't a camel spider. Never was sure what exactly bite me. Doc's thought maybe a brown recluse. But they did to me exactly what was described in that link.. EXACTLY. My leg was so badly infected that local anesthisa didnt work. They milked puss out of my leg for 20 minutes (no joke, by the time i was able to get medical attention my leg was so far gone i couldn't bend it anymore). They Also cut out the "necrotic tissue". It Hurt like hell (i was given a wad of gause to bite down on) when the doc cut it out. It was like he took a core sample out of my leg and set it on the tray next to me. I could see the skin, the lay of fat under it, the meat under that ,etc. Sure did make a nice scar.

Officerpuppy · 06-17-08, 04:51 PM

Thats one nasty looking bugger there

How big do those get? It looks pretty darn big in that picture, is that a common size?

STEED · 06-17-08, 05:00 PM

Shoot the bugger, ugly sod.

Stealth Hunter · 06-18-08, 01:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by STEED

Shoot the bugger, ugly sod.

Fetch my elephant rifle.

Red Heat · 06-17-08, 05:00 PM

Fkn ****...its so dam big!
I never so one of that size...

jumpy · 06-17-08, 05:03 PM

The image is somewhat misleading with the perspective.
The biggest Camel Spiders are about 5" leg span.

Oberon · 06-17-08, 05:34 PM

Sod the insurgents, MOAB those buggers!!

August · 06-17-08, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jumpy

The image is somewhat misleading with the perspective.
The biggest Camel Spiders are about 5" leg span.

And isn't that two spiders in that pic?

Platapus · 06-17-08, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I had something like this:
http://www.camelspiders.net/camel-spider-bite.htm

happen on the back of my left leg, just above the knee. Only it wasn't a camel spider. Never was sure what exactly bite me. Doc's thought maybe a brown recluse. But they did to me exactly what was described in that link.. EXACTLY. My leg was so badly infected that local anesthisa didnt work. They milked puss out of my leg for 20 minutes (no joke, by the time i was able to get medical attention my leg was so far gone i couldn't bend it anymore). They Also cut out the "necrotic tissue". It Hurt like hell (i was given a wad of gause to bite down on) when the doc cut it out. It was like he took a core sample out of my leg and set it on the tray next to me. I could see the skin, the lay of fat under it, the meat under that ,etc. Sure did make a nice scar.

If you were bit by a brown recluse you are one lucky dude. I can just imagine (well no I can't) how much that must have hurt.

Hope you made a good recovery

mrbeast · 06-17-08, 07:22 PM

Anyone for tennis?

ReallyDedPoet · 06-17-08, 07:22 PM

That's one big mother

RDP

Ducimus · 06-17-08, 07:33 PM

The evil child within wants to tag that sucker with a BB gun. :rotfl:

06-17-08, 04:03 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,384 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Crikey! Put a saddle on that monster and you can ride it. I wonder if that would be the biggest spider in the world but I am really afraid to ask __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

06-17-08, 04:07 PM	#2
Steel_Tomb Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cambridgeshire - UK Posts: 1,128 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Yeah my dad came across a few of those during his tours over there, they're bloody nasty things. Give a nasty bite too. Aparantly my dad said that when they only had very basic toilet facilities i.e. a tube into the ground for peeing into critters would hide in there away from the heat so you had to be careful not to get your family jewels nipped by some local wildlife __________________ _______________________________________________ System Spec: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz \| 4Gb Corsair XMS2 Dominator DDR2 PC-2 6400 RAM \| XFX GeForce 8800GTS 640mb PCI-E \| Creative X-fi sound card \| 250Gb HDD \| *Rest In Peace Dave, you will be missed.*

06-17-08, 04:12 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,384 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	thats the last thing one of our military men needs to be worried about. Having some great big spider nipping at your old man. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

06-17-08, 05:00 PM	#6
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Shoot the bugger, ugly sod. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

06-17-08, 05:00 PM	#8
Red Heat Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Portugal Posts: 1,093 Downloads: 267 Uploads: 0	Fkn ****...its so dam big! I never so one of that size... __________________ "There is three kinds of man: the living, the death, and those who are at Sea." Plato

06-17-08, 04:41 PM	#4
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	I had something like this: http://www.camelspiders.net/camel-spider-bite.htm happen on the back of my left leg, just above the knee. Only it wasn't a camel spider. Never was sure what exactly bite me. Doc's thought maybe a brown recluse. But they did to me exactly what was described in that link.. EXACTLY. My leg was so badly infected that local anesthisa didnt work. They milked puss out of my leg for 20 minutes (no joke, by the time i was able to get medical attention my leg was so far gone i couldn't bend it anymore). They Also cut out the "necrotic tissue". It Hurt like hell (i was given a wad of gause to bite down on) when the doc cut it out. It was like he took a core sample out of my leg and set it on the tray next to me. I could see the skin, the lay of fat under it, the meat under that ,etc. Sure did make a nice scar.

06-17-08, 04:51 PM	#5
Officerpuppy Engineer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mansfield, TX Posts: 213 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Thats one nasty looking bugger there How big do those get? It looks pretty darn big in that picture, is that a common size?

06-17-08, 05:03 PM	#9
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	The image is somewhat misleading with the perspective. The biggest Camel Spiders are about 5" leg span. __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

06-17-08, 05:34 PM	#10
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Sod the insurgents, MOAB those buggers!!

06-17-08, 07:22 PM	#13
mrbeast Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Bolton, UK Posts: 1,236 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Anyone for tennis? __________________

06-17-08, 07:22 PM	#14
ReallyDedPoet Canadian Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada. The one and only, East Coast Posts: 10,888 Downloads: 946 Uploads: 5	That's one big mother RDP __________________ Back in the Day

06-17-08, 07:33 PM	#15
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	The evil child within wants to tag that sucker with a BB gun. :rotfl:

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