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Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town

Posted by samzenpus on from the welcome-to-my-sleepout-said-the-spider-to-the-bloke dept.

youth68 writes "Australia is known around the world for its large and deadly creepy crawlies, but even locals have been shocked by the size of the giant venomous spiders that have invaded an Outback town in Queensland. Scores of eastern tarantulas, which are known as 'bird-eating spiders' and can grow larger than the palm of a man's hand, have begun crawling out from gardens and venturing into public spaces in Bowen, a coastal town about 700 miles northwest of Brisbane."

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  1. I for one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...say g'day to our new tarantula overlords.

    1. Re:I for one... by buswolley · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't want to hear bout spiders until they're on a plane.

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      A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.

    2. Re:I for one... by martin-boundary · · Score: 5, Funny
      A Texan farmer goes to Australia for a vacation. There he meets an Aussie farmer and gets talking. The Aussie shows off his big wheat field and the Texan says, "Oh! We have wheat fields that are at least twice as large".

      Then they walk around the ranch a little, and the Aussie shows off his herd of cattle. The Texan immediately says, "We have longhorns that are at least twice as large as your cows".

      The conversation has, meanwhile, almost died when the Texan sees a herd of kangaroos hopping through the field. He asks, "And what are those?" The Aussie replies with an incredulous look, "Don't you have any grasshoppers in Texas?"

  2. HEY! by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 5, Funny

    large and deadly creepy crawlies

    HEY! I take offense to that!

    im not THAT deadly.

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  3. Interesting factoid about Aussie spiderwebs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Austrailian spiders spin their webs in the counter-clockwise direction, the complete opposite of the clockwise webs American spiders spin.

  4. Re:Fuck your fucking spiders! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could the interwebs please, please stop showing me pictures of gross disgusting huge spiders when I least expect it?

    You clicked on "Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town" and didn't expect to see photos of giant spiders?