I've just been traumatized! (how many, children, to, American)
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im not afraid of spiders, but i still hate to see them crawling around my house. i love taking out the vacuum and suck them up, cause its alot less messy than smacking them with rolled up newspaper
I couldn't suck it up in my vacuum because I would live in fear of the thing crawling out of the bag and delivering its retribution on me. Ick...... I am going to have nightmares tonight of giant spiders.
Robinwood I feel your pain. Two weeks ago I went to move a bag from the floor and a spider (don't know what kind and don't care) that was as big as a 50 cent piece or larger crawled out from under it. I was on top of the bed screaming like a banshee for my husband to come kill it. He just looked at me like I was nuts. (He did kill it though) To me a good spider in the house is a dead spider.
I wish you didn't go out and kill it. It had it's babies on its back. That's sad.
I don't why people are taught whenever they see a bug they have to kill it. You don't have to do that. You could have just let it go on it's merry way and you probably would have never seen it again. They never stay in the same place too long.
I have to agree with you PinkString. I personaly am allergic to spider bites and each time I am bitten I have to have med packs to reduce the horrible swelling and itch. However, I do not kill spiders when I see them, I just try to avoid them We have an agreement, spiders and I, if you stay over there, I won't kill you. It seems to work pretty well.
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I'm not scared of spiders, but a lot of people I know are, even "little", household type spiders. And, I'm sorry, but if I saw a tarantula, I'd have had a heart attack and died right then and there, but not until I had somebody else stomp on it for an hour. eeeeeuuuuuu!
Something that big deserves to be stuffed and mounted. 30-06 oughta do the trick. But be careful to make it a head shot, you don't wanna **** off a big mama like that. She might have friends (or God help us, local offspring).
Have you considered calling the Gambino family and taking out a contract for a hit? They might take it off of your hands and putting it into someone's bed for a revenge thing. The Mafia might actually pay bounties for things like this. Speaking of which, doesn't the state of Texas (3rd largest state, by the way, after we slice Alaska in half) have a bounty on things like this? If they don't, why not?
Well, I do apologize to all of the tarantula lovers out there. Actually I didn't kill it, my husband did. Perhaps I should have asked it in for a soft drink and some cookies. I have to say the reason my husband killed it was because it was bigger than my youngest daughter's foot and she refused to go back outside until he killed it. There are still plenty of spiders outside to take care of those nasty things you speak of. I would rather my children be outside getting excercise and sun than stay huddled in the house to preserve the life of a monster tarantula and her babies.
Well, I do apologize to all of the tarantula lovers out there. Actually I didn't kill it, my husband did. Perhaps I should have asked it in for a soft drink and some cookies. I have to say the reason my husband killed it was because it was bigger than my youngest daughter's foot and she refused to go back outside until he killed it. There are still plenty of spiders outside to take care of those nasty things you speak of. I would rather my children be outside getting excercise and sun than stay huddled in the house to preserve the life of a monster tarantula and her babies.
Good point. I can't argue with it. Priorities are what they should be.
Actually the soft drink and cookies wouldn't be acceptable. They prefer the liquidized guts of other insects. Mmmmmmm, nummy!
well personally I like spiders, but the last time i let one crawl across the floor, I had two kids and my wife up half the night and the kids in between us, so I pick a good nights sleep over the spider, but when they arent around, I just put it outside.
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Gotta wonder what nasty is going to be running around your yard that they might have eaten... 
I have to say the reason my husband killed it was because it was bigger than my youngest daughter's foot and she refused to go back outside until he killed it. There are still plenty of spiders outside to take care of those nasty things you speak of. I would rather my children be outside getting excercise and sun than stay huddled in the house to preserve the life of a monster tarantula and her babies.
