iraq-niphobia

[The Purchaser]

Quoted from an email sent to me by my step father:

They run 10 mph, jump three feet, are a nocturnal spider, so only come out
at night unless they are in shade.

When they bite you, you are injected with Novocain so you go numb
instantly. You don't even know you are bitten when you are sleeping, so you
wake up with part of your leg or arm missing because "it" has been gnawing on
it all night long.

If you are walking around and you bump something that is casting a shadow
over it, and the sun makes contact with it, you better run. It will
instantly run for your shadow, and scream the whole time it is chasing you.

These are Spiders found daily in IRAQ by troops. Imagine waking up and
seeing one of these in your tent!!

PS. The one on the bottom is eating the one on the top.

[[AK]Squidly]

Snopes - Camel Spiders

[The Wraith]

Snopes - Camel Spiders

Thank you... At least I wasn't the first to post the link this time.

[[AK]Rocks]

Stitchjones collects spiders as a hobby. FYI - maybe someone can find one for his collection.

[Widowmaker]

What is crazy is I actualy recognized those things from the picture. We had them all over the place in my home town of Yakima Washington. They realy do not get that big but they do get big enough to scare the crap out of you when they are crawling down the curtains at your hand.

Their jaws are wicked ugly too and the front legs bassicaly look like pinchers, I had read before that they use those pinchers to scoop water to their disgusting mouths. When moving they realy do look like scorpions (hence the name Wind Scorpions which many people called them) but then they also look like spiders (others called them Sun Spiders, that is what the exterminators called them so thats what I call them).

[Solarwolf]

Yikes.... Im gettin the willies from that pic myself!

Where's Stitch??? Here... Stitchy Stitchy..... oh well, he's probably learned his lesson by now. hehehe