spiders anyone?? Arachnophobia — that is, the unreasonable fear of spiders — isn't illegal, but it could still bring the police to your door if you scream loud enough. An Australian...

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Arachnophobia — that is, the unreasonable fear of spiders — isn't illegal, but it could still bring the police to your door if you scream loud enough.

An Australian man learned that the hard way this morning when, according to reports by the BBC, a passerby heard him shouting, "Why don't you die?" inside his suburban Perth home. The passerby also heard a toddler wailing. Justifiably, the passerby called the police.

Multiple officers presently arrived at the scene and learned that the man — and the toddler — were screaming at a spider. The screaming man was deathly afraid of spiders, he told the police, and he had gotten a bit carried away while trying to k**l an unidentified arachnid in his home. The man apologized for the inconvenience, according to police logs tweeted (and subsequently deleted) by the local Wanneroo Police Department. Whether or not the spider was escorted from the domicile in four pairs of tiny handcuffs remains open to speculation.

Spiders, it must be said, are unquestionably creepy-looking, though most household species are harmless to humans. Studies estimate that somewhere between 1 and 5 percent of the world's population are unable to overlook this creepiness and identify as arachnophobes. A fear of spiders, which likely stems from millions of years of human and spider cohabitation, can manifest in children as young as 6 months old and cause grown adults to perceive spiders as being significantly larger than they really are.

And, as with most fears, the most severe cases of arachnophobia can lead people to do some pretty dumb things. Take, for instance, the California man who set his house on fire last year while trying to k**l a spider with a blowtorch, or the Oregon woman who drove her car off the road when a spider dropped onto her from the rearview mirror (luckily, she walked away with only a few scratches). Our imperfect human brains are to blame — and it turns out, even just thinking about spiders can diminish our ability to think well; one 2011 study showed that spider-fearing motorists playing a basic driving simulator were more likely to make errors and crash into things when being forced to have conversations about spiders.

We hope that this news brief has not triggered any irrational fears in you. If it has, exposure therapy is thought to be one of the best treatments, according to the Mayo Clinic. You should probably watch this video of 1,400 tarantula babies hatching from their mama's egg sac, just to be safe.

Originally published on Live Science.

bahmer

badbobby wrote:

Arachnophobia — that is, the unreasonable fear of spiders — isn't illegal, but it could still bring the police to your door if you scream loud enough.

An Australian man learned that the hard way this morning when, according to reports by the BBC, a passerby heard him shouting, "Why don't you die?" inside his suburban Perth home. The passerby also heard a toddler wailing. Justifiably, the passerby called the police.

Multiple officers presently arrived at the scene and learned that the man — and the toddler — were screaming at a spider. The screaming man was deathly afraid of spiders, he told the police, and he had gotten a bit carried away while trying to k**l an unidentified arachnid in his home. The man apologized for the inconvenience, according to police logs tweeted (and subsequently deleted) by the local Wanneroo Police Department. Whether or not the spider was escorted from the domicile in four pairs of tiny handcuffs remains open to speculation.

Spiders, it must be said, are unquestionably creepy-looking, though most household species are harmless to humans. Studies estimate that somewhere between 1 and 5 percent of the world's population are unable to overlook this creepiness and identify as arachnophobes. A fear of spiders, which likely stems from millions of years of human and spider cohabitation, can manifest in children as young as 6 months old and cause grown adults to perceive spiders as being significantly larger than they really are.

And, as with most fears, the most severe cases of arachnophobia can lead people to do some pretty dumb things. Take, for instance, the California man who set his house on fire last year while trying to k**l a spider with a blowtorch, or the Oregon woman who drove her car off the road when a spider dropped onto her from the rearview mirror (luckily, she walked away with only a few scratches). Our imperfect human brains are to blame — and it turns out, even just thinking about spiders can diminish our ability to think well; one 2011 study showed that spider-fearing motorists playing a basic driving simulator were more likely to make errors and crash into things when being forced to have conversations about spiders.

We hope that this news brief has not triggered any irrational fears in you. If it has, exposure therapy is thought to be one of the best treatments, according to the Mayo Clinic. You should probably watch this video of 1,400 tarantula babies hatching from their mama's egg sac, just to be safe.

Originally published on Live Science.

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Thanks for all of that valuable information there badbobby. I just step on them.

badbobby Loc: texas

bahmer wrote:

Thanks for all of that valuable information there badbobby. I just step on them.

you should be ashamed bahm
the last one you stepped on was prolly a mother to three or four hundred babies

and she was only tryin to make a livin and feed them little ones

bahmer

badbobby wrote:

you should be ashamed bahm
the last one you stepped on was prolly a mother to three or four hundred babies

and she was only tryin to make a livin and feed them little ones

Not ashamed at all and I hope that they all starved to death.

badbobby Loc: texas

bahmer wrote:

Not ashamed at all and I hope that they all starved to death.

you're a really hard person bahm
no compassion for those much smaller than you

bahmer

badbobby wrote:

you're a really hard person bahm
no compassion for those much smaller than you

Nope non at all for those critters.

badbobby Loc: texas

bahmer wrote:

Nope non at all for those critters.

I sure am glad I'm pretty big
you would step on me otherwise

bahmer

badbobby wrote:

I sure am glad I'm pretty big
you would step on me otherwise

I would never step on you buddy your too nice to me.

teabag09

When I worked for our city park I maintained the water treatment plant in a building about 20'X20'. In it lived for several years a Wolf Spider with a 6" leg span. She freaked everyone out who came to visit. I liked her as she was harmless and shy and kept the Mole Crickets in check. When she died another took her place. I had a spider in that building for 23 years. As a kid I would catch Writing Spiders and bring them home usually on my shoulder and put them on the snowball bush to watch them make their pretty webs. Mike

badbobby wrote:

Arachnophobia — that is, the unreasonable fear of spiders — isn't illegal, but it could still bring the police to your door if you scream loud enough.

An Australian man learned that the hard way this morning when, according to reports by the BBC, a passerby heard him shouting, "Why don't you die?" inside his suburban Perth home. The passerby also heard a toddler wailing. Justifiably, the passerby called the police.

Multiple officers presently arrived at the scene and learned that the man — and the toddler — were screaming at a spider. The screaming man was deathly afraid of spiders, he told the police, and he had gotten a bit carried away while trying to k**l an unidentified arachnid in his home. The man apologized for the inconvenience, according to police logs tweeted (and subsequently deleted) by the local Wanneroo Police Department. Whether or not the spider was escorted from the domicile in four pairs of tiny handcuffs remains open to speculation.

Spiders, it must be said, are unquestionably creepy-looking, though most household species are harmless to humans. Studies estimate that somewhere between 1 and 5 percent of the world's population are unable to overlook this creepiness and identify as arachnophobes. A fear of spiders, which likely stems from millions of years of human and spider cohabitation, can manifest in children as young as 6 months old and cause grown adults to perceive spiders as being significantly larger than they really are.

And, as with most fears, the most severe cases of arachnophobia can lead people to do some pretty dumb things. Take, for instance, the California man who set his house on fire last year while trying to k**l a spider with a blowtorch, or the Oregon woman who drove her car off the road when a spider dropped onto her from the rearview mirror (luckily, she walked away with only a few scratches). Our imperfect human brains are to blame — and it turns out, even just thinking about spiders can diminish our ability to think well; one 2011 study showed that spider-fearing motorists playing a basic driving simulator were more likely to make errors and crash into things when being forced to have conversations about spiders.

We hope that this news brief has not triggered any irrational fears in you. If it has, exposure therapy is thought to be one of the best treatments, according to the Mayo Clinic. You should probably watch this video of 1,400 tarantula babies hatching from their mama's egg sac, just to be safe.

Originally published on Live Science.

Arachnophobia — that is, the unreasonable fear of ... (show quote)

badbobby Loc: texas

teabag09 wrote:

When I worked for our city park I maintained the w... (show quote)

my son in law has that arrachnofobia(think that's what it's called
any how he is deathly afraid of spiders
he is also the guy who takes me fishin a lot
a big black spider fell in our boat off some bushes we were 'doodle sockin'
and the poor guy left the boat in 6 foot of water
wouldn't have been so bad
but the north wind was blowin and it was cold
didn't stop me from laffin my head off though

bahmer

badbobby wrote:

my son in law has that arrachnofobia(think that's ... (show quote)

Your all heart there badbobby for shame for shame.

badbobby Loc: texas

bahmer wrote:

Your all heart there badbobby for shame for shame.

you woulda laffed too bahm

teabag09

I also laugh at the guys who freak out by snakes who drop in boats, they're just trying to get in the water and they aren't cottonmouths but are either Northern Water Snakes or Brown Water Snakes. Cottenmouths are short, heavy bodied bank snakes who don't often get into trees or bushes but the other two do. They all along with the Red Bellied water snake have bad dispositions and will bite you if you don't know how to handle them. Mike

badbobby wrote:

you woulda laffed too bahm