house party
I once recall going to a house party of a friend of mine who kept a tarantula as a pet.

Fortunately for me, the arachnid had recently shed it's skin allowing me to place the still spider shaped skin into one of his flat mates corn flakes packet.

The next morning my friend and I told everybody to be on the look out for the spider as it had escaped in the night, telling them that it would not attack a human due to the size differential and thus everyone was perfectly safe, but the spider needed to be rehoused into its tank as it needed the heat.

20 minutes later, I was to witness the spectacular sight of someone physically shitting themselves in the kitchen as arachnid skin met bowl.

Good times.
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Tue 21 Feb 2012, 14:14, 2 replies)

when mine shed its skin
i took it to the bingo and scared the shit out of the blue-rinse brigade
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 21 Feb 2012, 14:35, closed)

Shed tarantula skins
Are worth their weight in, er, pennies.

Often I give mine away to friends and, in once case, a colleague with a big fear of spiders who was desperate to get over his arachnophobia and asked for a skin, as he felt he'd be able to look at it without the fear of it moving.

Rather than do something evil, but hilarious, I did the decent thing and brought it to him in a clear plastic box, and rang him to say I'd bring it into his room.

When I did, slowly and calmly, I witnessed the purest, funniest, most honest human fear reaction I have ever encountered.

He turned his head, leapt up and darted backwards, pushing his office chair across the room, squeaked and farted. All at once.

Epic.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Tue 21 Feb 2012, 14:59, closed)