My son is in Iraq and found a camel spider

[spinned]

Yep, my son is stationed in Iraq.  He says he works about 12 hours every day.  Not much time for anything else.  He and a couple guys caught a camel spider the other day.  He was surprized that I didn't know what they were so I looked it up on the internet.  Here is what I found on the net.



Yuck... I guess thay are going to feed it to see how big it will get.

[SacDuc]

I just came in to say:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! 

That is all.

sac

[NAKID]

That's actually 2 spiders and those are quite large specimens. But, they are pretty big...

[55Spy]

Those are about double the size of the ones we dealt with in Thumrait.  But they are nasty little things

There was a whole thing that went down at one of the Forward Operating Bases in Iraq while I was there last year where a guy fell asleep on post and was essentially attacked by one.  They eat flesh on downed animals or sleeping ones.  their venom is a numbing agent and he didn't know it was chewing on his chin.  He was all messed up and kept calling out garbled messages on the radio because he couldn't talk without his lower lip and all.  It was a mess. To top it off he got written up for sleeping on duty. poor sap.

[roy-nexus-6]

Could've been worse, i guess. He could have found a spider camel. Those things freak me out.

[Popeye the Sailor]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

[eltristo]

Those appear to only be about 4-5 inches across, which is, admittedly, 4-5 inches more than I like, but also not THAT huge.   

I just realized that whole statement sounds a bit off if taken out of context.

[ROBsS4R]

omg I hate spiders 

I would prob shoot myself accidently if I awoke to one of those on me.

[TiNi]

<screams>
WTF!!!!!!

[Monsterlover]

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[duqette]

getitaway getitaway getitaway !!!!!! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!



Something about this reminds me of the time my dad showed up at the school he was teaching at in Kenya, and there was a python in the latrine. It was sort of curled around the hole.... Eventually, IIRC, all the bravest men in the village gathered around, some of them lifted the entire latrine walls and roof up and away, and the rest hacked it to bits with machetes.

[GLantern]

I would totally freakout if i saw that thing 

[ducpenguin]

Goliath Birdeater!!!  Actual Size!!!



These are eaten as crabs in South America.  Yummy...and oh yea...truly the size of diner plates...

[TiNi]

I would totally freakout if i saw that thing 

you are not alone...
i'd die.

[factorPlayer]

Something about this reminds me of the time my dad showed up at the school he was teaching at in Kenya, and there was a python in the latrine. It was sort of curled around the hole.... Eventually, IIRC, all the bravest men in the village gathered around, some of them lifted the entire latrine walls and roof up and away, and the rest hacked it to bits with machetes.

that make the beast with two backsin' sucks for the snake...  I'm sure all he wanted was a cool damp (if smelly) place to chill out for a while