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[theweaselking]

If a spider the size of your hand bites you repeatedly, stopping to take its picture is apparently a good plan. That way, the doctors can identify the thing when your hand swells up like a balloon and your blood pressure reaches near-fatal levels.

In other news, the Brazilian Wandering Spider apparently wanders to London and stops in at the pubs.

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[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

That's one customer I'd be wary of cutting off...

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

The guy's presence of mind did apparently save his life. Wonderful. Except...

"I went to try and pick it up and it bit me again."

Please feel free to imagine me sitting here with my mouth open, because it is, and my fingers clenching whenever I try to directly comment on that quoted statement, because they do.

Best I can manage is an incoherent "You... went to try and... blmpngh."

(On the other hand, I would be dead from the first bite, because there would be a me-shaped hole in the nearest wall.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

If a spider that damn big bit me, *and* survived me throwing it into the wall as hard as I could, I'd definitely try to catch in in a jar or something, using a big, thick set of gloves. Then I'd take it with me to the hospital and say "THIS FUCKER BIT ME!" and wave it around.

Then pass out.

I've successfully dealt with my arachnophobia, I think - now it's more a "Kill! Kill now before it ESCAPES!" reaction than a "Argh, get it AWAY!" reaction.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

This is reminding me of that one Charles Addams comic—there's a well-dressed, reticent-looking man talking to a nurse in a doctor's waiting room. He's leaning forward with polite diffidence as he says, "Are there many ahead of me? I've been bitten by a black widow spider."

Catching the thing what bit ya is a good idea, actually, especially if you don't know what it is.

I hate spiders....

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

Especially the kind that can kill me.

[takhisis.livejournal.com]

He said that staff had a look at him and then sent him home to rest. Mr Stevens said: “They told me they couldn’t see anything wrong. They said to go home and keep an eye on it.”

Good to know that UK doctors are adhering to the same level of incompetence as US docs. *rolls eyes*

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

Good to know that UK doctors are adhering to the same level of incompetence as US docs. *rolls eyes*

Oh, gods it's much, much worse there. You have absolutely no idea.