Not so much creepy
as shit-your-pants-scary.
I'm standing in the bathtub/shower of my 1 bedroom flat in East Perth circa 1996/97. Since the dingy old flat has no extractor fans anywhere - when you have a shower all the walls and ceiling get wet from condensation.
A big, fuckoff (dinner-plate) sized Hunstman spider loses her footing in the wet & lands directly on my noggin. I brush whatever it was that landed on my head into the tub and end up face 2 face something like this in the bottom of the bath-tub.
I was a bit stinky for a while after that....
EDIT: for the arachnophiles out there -I don't think I hurt her as she laid an egg cache a few weeks later.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 12 Apr 2011, 9:17, 16 replies)

Sweet Juddering Fuck
Not a nice image first thing in the morning.
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 10:16, closed)

I met one of those when I was in Perth.
Sitting under a tree waiting to go and play cricket when this THING clatters down onto the bench next to me. At first I thought a glove had fallen from the tree. (This seemed a lot more likely than it seems, as we just don't have shit like this in the UK). But then the glove walked off into the bushes and I probably shit myself. As for being in the shower with one, bollocks to that!
It was later edxplained to me that they're not too poisonous and that a bite 'would be just like a bee sting'. All very well, but given a choice between being stung by a bee, and NOT stung by a bee....I'll go gor the latter thanks.
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 11:10, closed)

fuck that shit
that's why we send the prisoners there!
(Clit Ninja is having a white space party!, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 11:12, closed)

And if that doesn't get you ...
it'll be the sharks, jellyfish, snakes or any number of other killing machines. My mate who emigrated to Australia keeps asking me to come out to visit him. Fuck that .... I ain't going.
( Ramsay Tupper, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 12:21, closed)

I have family up in tropical Queensland,
visiting them while I was backpacking a while back I went to the beach. Warning signs everywhere. 'Do Not Swim Here', 'Beware Crocodiles', 'Beware Jellyfish' and even more scarier, 'Beware falling Coconuts', all with the number of 'known' deaths over the last few years. 'Christ almighty' I thought....'even the fruit here can kill you!!'
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 12:23, closed)

It laid eggs a few weeks later?
But how do you know? It didn't stay in the shower for over two weeks did it? Why didn't you kill it immediately? I'm sure if something like that got into my shower, my ninja training would kick in and I'd squash it Woody Allen style, flailing a tennis racket, hopping about on my toes and crying.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 13:06, closed)

No I turned the shower off
picked her up with a large bowl and flat board, placed her on my balcony & ran inside and locked the door!
I didn't kill the spider because @ heart I'm an animal lover (DON'T go there...) but spiders especially. I generally won't kill an animal unless it's lethal and unsafe. I'll kill redbacks on sight as thet hide in all sorts of nooks and crannies and a bite could easily kill 1 of my little girls.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 12 Apr 2011, 22:34, closed)

That's laudable.
I think if I lived in Australia I'd be a nervous wreck!
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:04, closed)

Gnaaaaaah!
I clicked End to get to the bottom of the page to find stories I'd not read yet, and that suddenly appeared! I screamed out loud. =O
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 15:13, closed)

she looks nice

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 17:37, closed)

That she does.
The one I'm talking about was bigger and darker. Never a camera with you in the shower when you need 1 is there?!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 12 Apr 2011, 22:36, closed)

I read your link
can grow to ELEVEN INCHES ACROSS

:(

I'm never travelling. Ever
(Monchberter Can't go wrong with Doom, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 22:33, closed)

Once when I was going scuba diving...
...we were in the boat heading to the dive site, when one of these fuckers crawled out of my (stored in a dusty old shed) lifejacket and onto my face.

I screamed like a girl and threw it over the side. Sorry spider.
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 2:42, closed)

When visiting a friend in Sydney
She told me the tale of how she'd got a jerry can out of the shed to top up her lawnmower. She'd just tipped it up when a huntsman shot out of the spout, ran up her arm and into her hair.

Eep.

A day or two later she asked me to sharpen a lawnmower blade for her. I was fine with this until she took me to that same shed and turned on the bench grinder. The whole shed was reverberating. The fear of enraged spiders emerging from every corner of the place was frankly crippling. I'm still not sure whether it was a wind-up or not, Aussies are a bit funny that way...
(richardm, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:21, closed)

If she was in the shed with you
she wasn't taking the piss.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 13 Apr 2011, 21:39, closed)

I only got a tiny bit down the picture before I saw the first glimmer
of spider leg. I then had to scroll back up the page and take a few deep breaths before I could scroll down again.. I now feel sick.
(Document Pocket, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 17:21, closed)