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Journal by ellem on Wednesday December 14, 2005 @12:45PM

If I found this!

LONDON -- An image released by Britain's Natural History Museum in London, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005, showing Natural History Museum expert Stuart Hine with a giant centipede 'Scolopendra gigantea', which was found in a north London home. Aaron Balick, 32, a psychologist from Islington, north London, trapped the venomous centipede in a plastic box after he found it behind his TV and took it to the Natural History Museum. There, experts identified it as 'Scolopendra gigantea' - the world's largest species of centipede. The creature measured nine inches long by just under an inch wide (not including its legs).

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- Re:I wouldn't burn the house down (Score:2)
  
  by ellem ( 147712 ) * writes:
  
  Dude I'd be too frightened. I'd just fucking cry.
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    - Re:I wouldn't burn the house down (Score:1)
      
      by buffer-overflowed ( 588867 ) writes:
      
      What about something like this [atshq.org]?
      - Re:I wouldn't burn the house down (Score:2)
        
        by ellem ( 147712 ) * writes:
        
        Yeah... that's a house burner and a salt the motherfucking Earth.
        
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        by buffer-overflowed ( 588867 ) writes:
        
        Nah. Sure it's almost a foot long and weighs nearly half a pound, but the goliath bird spider is a harmless little guy. Don't got no venom toxic enough to hurt da humans.
        
        Ya gots to watch out for crap like the sydney funnel web tho, that thing's a terror.
        
        You and my husband... (Score:2)
        
        by allism ( 457899 ) writes:
        
        My husband gets completely freaked out by spiders. Which is a shame, because I like to keep them as pets.
        
        The developer I worked wtih at my last job lives up on a mountain. He finds the craziest spiders in his garage - furry spiders of an unidentified species that were as big as the palm of my hand, ginormous black widows, etc. I'm not sure where he got the idea that I liked spiders (we had only been working together a few weeks when he brought me the first one), but I used to always have one in an aquari
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Those little bastards are poisonous? (Score:2)

by trmj ( 579410 ) writes:

I never knew that. Growing up in PA they are all over the place, except smaller. As in rarely longer than 3 inches.

I'd like to see one of those and a camel spider duke it out.
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I'd impale it (Score:2)

by RailGunner ( 554645 ) * writes:

I'd impale it on a shish-ke-bob skewer and leave it as a warning for the other centipedes.
Oh, I'm just kidding. Our cat would beat me to it, then drag it's carcass to our bed and give it to us as a "present".
Like that baby snake that managed to get in underneath the old sliding glass door we used to have.
We woke up to a headless garden snake in between our pillows.
Good kitty.
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  by nizo ( 81281 ) * writes:
  
  They stink so bad when they have been dead in a jar for a few weeks. We found a 6" one in our house when I was a kid so thats how I know :-) Man those things give me the heebiegeebies.
I'll trade one of those (Score:2)

by Mantorp ( 142371 ) * writes:

for my carpenter ants and the woodpecker chomping on my house
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  by elmegil ( 12001 ) * writes:
  
  They're like roaches and silverfish. Where there's one, there's likely to be more.
Nuke It From Orbit. (Score:2)

by Iamthefallen ( 523816 ) * writes:

It's the only way to be sure.

I freak over the 2 inch spiders that come in every so often. This one [randomimage.us]...no...we're moving [archive.org]...

Wikipedia entry [wikipedia.org]
One of the few times (Score:2)

by Shadow Wrought ( 586631 ) writes:

When shooting a bug with a shotgun really doesn't seem like overkill.
ugh (Score:2)

by John Harrison ( 223649 ) writes:

I caught two bats in our apartment over the past two years. I can't say that I was all that calm in the process. If we found something like that and my wife found out the house would be on the market that day. And she loves this house.
Don't move to the country (Score:2)

by bethanie ( 675210 ) * writes:

While I admit that centipede thing is pretty creepy, I really don't think it would get to me. I mean, if I've gotten over scorpions (which used to freak me the fuck OUT, particularly when I found myself face-to-face with one when I was naked & in the bathtub), there can't be much else that's gonna faze me.

....Bethanie....

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