scary shit!!

[Lisa]

A true story and its source was the Australian Quarantine Inspection

Service in Adelaide.

 

A bloke and his family were on holidays in the United States and went

to Mexico for a week. An avid cactus fan, the man bought a one-metre

high, rare and expensive cactus there. On arrival back home Australian

Customs said it must be quarantined for 3 months.

 

He finally got his cactus home and planted it in his backyard, and

over time it grew to about 2 metres. One evening while watering his

garden after a warm spring day, he gave the cactus a light spray. He

was amazed to see the plant shiver all over, he gave it another spray

and it shivered again. He was puzzled so he rang the council who put him on

to the state gardens people.

 

After a few transfers he got the state's foremost cactus expert who

asked him many questions: How tall is it? Has it flowered? etc.

Finally he asked the most disturbing question. "Is your family in the house?" The

bloke answered yes. The cactus expert said get out of the house NOW,

get on to the front nature strip and wait for me, I will be there in 20 minutes.

 

Fifteen minutes later, 2 fire trucks, 2 police cars and an ambulance

came screaming around the corner. A fireman got out and asked "Are you

the bloke with the cactus?" I am, he said. A guy jumped out of the fire

truck wearing what looked like a space suit, a breathing cylinder and

mask attached to what looked like a scuba backpack with a large hose

attached. He headed for the backyard and turned a flame-thrower on the

cactus spraying it up and down. After a few minutes the flame-thrower man stopped,

the cactus stood smoking and spitting, half the fence was burnt and parts of the

gardens were well and truly scorched. Just then the cactus expert appeared and laid a

calming hand on the bloke's shoulder. "What the hell's going on?" he says.

 

"Let me show you" says the cactus man. He went over to the cactus and

picked away a crusty bit. The cactus was almost entirely hollow and

filled with tiger striped bird-eating tarantula spiders, each about the size of

two hand spans.

 

The story was that this type of spider lays eggs in this type of cactus and they hatch

and live in it as they grow to full size. When full size they release themselves. The cactus just

explodes and about 150 dinner plate sized hairy spiders are flung from it, dispersing

everywhere. They had been ready to pop. The aftermath was that the house and the adjoining houses

had to be vacated and fumigated: police tape was put up outside the whole area and no one

was allowed in for two weeks.

 

And here's what one of them looks like sitting on a hand.

[EmmaBlu]

i hate spiders

[teabag]

I'd love to eat a spider alive and feel it bursting in my mouth filling it with vile cloddy secretions

[Alex]

Haha. Cool story, but that's a red kneed tarantula.

[Guest Kev]

QUOTE (teabag @ Jul 13 2004, 15:18)

I'd love to eat a spider alive and feel it bursting in my mouth filling it with vile cloddy secretions

If I was you I'd pay a visit to the doctors. You're ill.

[Lisa]

QUOTE (Alex @ Jul 13 2004, 15:18)

Haha. Cool story, but that's a red kneed tarantula.

close enough tho, come on then find me a pic of the one we want

[Alex]

http://hoaxinfo.com/cactus.htm

[Lisa]

urban legend or not, still not a nice thought

[squeakage]

and correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that one sitting on a pair of hands and not a dinner plate???

[squeakage]

QUOTE (Alex @ Jul 13 2004, 15:22)

http://hoaxinfo.com/cactus.htm

alex u love exposing hoax' about spiders don't ya?

[Guest]

QUOTE (squeakage @ Jul 13 2004, 15:25)

and correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that one sitting on a pair of hands and not a dinner plate???

You are correct.

[Lisa]

QUOTE (squeakage @ Jul 13 2004, 15:25)

and correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that one sitting on a pair of hands and not a dinner plate???

no its a dinner plate are you a complete retard!!!

[teabag]

QUOTE (Lisa @ Jul 13 2004, 15:27)

QUOTE (squeakage @ Jul 13 2004, 15:25) and correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that one sitting on a pair of hands and not a dinner plate???  no its a dinner plate are you a complete retard!!! now come on, just because you still eat off your hands....

[Lisa]

nothing wrong with that, we coped ok before the knife & fork was inveted, dont be such a snob Liz

[squeakage]

QUOTE (Lisa @ Jul 13 2004, 15:27)

QUOTE (squeakage @ Jul 13 2004, 15:25) and correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that one sitting on a pair of hands and not a dinner plate???  no its a dinner plate are you a complete retard!!! oi you've edited it!!!   before it said sitting on a dinner plate everyone   damn u mods!! haha