[DBCcigar]

Poisionous Spider

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[Rah55]

Yikes....like there isn't enough to worry about!

 

[MsprinM]

Wow I havent seen this one in a long time. But its one of those internet emails that gets passed around like a doobie at a Grateful Dead show.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/telamonia.asp

 

[ReV]

hate to be a bubble burster, but I suppose this should be good news:

Incorrect

 

[Architeuthis]

<yawn...>

 

[ReV]

Wow I havent seen this one in a long time. But its one of those internet emails that gets passed around like a doobie at a Grateful Dead show.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/telamonia.asp

haha, right on the money... I posted that at the same time.

 

[dartfrog]

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/telamonia.asp

Bamm! We were all over that.
In three days i will get an email about this from my wife on the subject sent to her by a friend or she will nonchalantly ask me to spray for bugs.

 

[Rah55]

A doobie at a Grateful Dead show?............:roflmao:

 

[DBCcigar]

Thanks guys, I'll have to send that link to the person who sent it to me....

 

[karmaz00]

thanks for the post

 

[brianhewitt]

Just to be on the safe side, I avoid public bathrooms like the plague anyways. :lol:

Hey, you gotta admit, even though it's bogus, it's an interesting little story.

 

[DBCcigar]

You got that right!

 

[hayward_tenney]

Funny, i already had the name of the spider copied to cross-reference in snopes. I'm only 2 days late!

 

[hayward_tenney]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telamonia_dimidiata

In 2002, the spider became the subject of an email hoax claiming that it was a fatal spider found lurking under toilet seats in North Florida. This hoax was a rehashing of an older email circulated in 1999 with similar claims, except under the name "South American Blush Spider (arachnius gluteus[sic])" - literally "butt spider". No such events ever occurred.[2]

Butt Spider :roflmao: You have to appreciate that kind of creativity.

 

[eggwhites]

I effing hate spiders. I'm so happy I live a few hours from where they might have gotten off with passengers.

 

[ibosmiley-cl]

Sigh... people need better things to do than try to freak people out lol. Thank God for Snopes.

 

[kenstogie-cl]

hate to be a bubble burster, but I suppose this should be good news:

Incorrect

Journal of the United Medical Association (JUMA),

That article was funny JUMA, trying to spoof JAMA I imagine.