RReed

We have just spent the last half hour working out strategies to get rid of the f**king huge huntsman in our house - as big as my husbands hand. Took a photo and it has red eye - no joke. Would post the photo, but don't know how to make it small enough.

Anyhow, it can run faster than the speed of light and evaded any attempts to get it into a salad bowl. I was directing the action from the other room. Eventually it was chased out into the yard with a sweeping brush using a directional scare tactic.

Anybody got any good tips for catching the b*ggers without killing them? Guessing this is not the last time Mr Huntsman and his mates decide to lodge.

Rachel

phoenixinoz

Well that's funny Rachel...well not actually funny....but strange....... cos the same thing has just happened at our house

There I was in the spare room, tap, tap, tapping away on my keyboard and the hubby just handed me a cuppa tea, when we both simultaneously looked up the ceiling...and there....in all its effin glory.....was a bloody big spider:scared:

It had legs as long as Elle McPherson [except hairier].....and I'm sure it had clogs on!!!!!

So.....hubby in his Frank Spencer style, goes to get the Mortein spray whilst I run between the toilet and the bedroom, screaming for him to kill it...and the dog, startled by my madness and shrill voice, starts barking and running between me and the hubby, the toilet and the bedroom

So, I finally go back to the bedroom [after a pee......and wondering if my bowels would hold out ].....only to find hubby has buggared off to get a magazine for the spider to fall on [from the ceiling].....and guess what?......

Frank bleedin Spencer has lost the bleedin spider!! ....it's bleedin fallen from the ceiling onto the bed and is bleedin running around somewhere and we can't find it

So, it looks like tonight is gonna be a looooong night. AND EVEN LONGER FOR FRANK......

Frankie aint gerrin no hankie pankie EVER till he find that monster and puts a lead on it!

Brisben

very funny post, I think frank should sleep in the bed tonite and you on the couch

Rooksie

I see you are Sunshine Coast. Crossing that one off the list right now!!! :scared:

phoenixinoz

***** that.....he's in the shed ....he can't even look after a bloody spider FFS

Me and the dog are in't bed .......with the bloody spider no doubt

Rooksie

Brisbane just got crossed off as well :scared:

hey this is a hell of a way to narrow it down!!

phoenixinoz

And we're in the middle between Sunshine and Gold coast.

You best move to Russia Rooksie. It's too bleedin cold for spiders to live there

Welcome to Aus my arse.

I want a refund on me visa

RReed

Ha ha ha - it must be Huntsman Night. Hope you find your new housemate and evict him.

I have a thing about half-dead things (don't laugh). I don't mind things alive or dead, but somewhere in between freaks me out. Also my husband has a personal vendetta against cockroaches and reckons huntsman eat them. So, we were both trying to preserve his life whilst getting him out of the house asap. Quite entertaining watching my barefoot husband (I would need a full chemical suit) trying to get the huntsman into a salad bowl with the kids providing helpful tips (not). He is still shivering at the thought and is currently using booze to lose the memory.

Check your bed!

Rachel

phoenixinoz

Yeh....serves me right really. I used to chukkle to mesen when people on here used to say how scared they were. Well now ya can all have a laugh at my expense

I need counselling:scared:

I keep feelin things on me legs ....and it's not Frank I can assure you.

He's in the dog house

I keep shakin me legs and the dog keeps lookin at me daft .

Rooksie

I am laughing my head off but the joke will be on me soon enough for sure!!!

you got me at it now - im doing an awkward version of break dancing

phoenixinoz

Check me bed....cheers Rach

Funny that ....cos my other half is the same....he kept saying "leave it, it's good for the house, it doesn't harm you"

I said "yeh....and dog shit on the carpet doesn't harm you either....but you wouldn't leave that in yer house now would ya"

The spider's going. And that's that!

.....when we can find it

RReed

Husband is also doing periodic break dancing and compiling a list of all the positive aspects to oz. He keeps trying to convince himself that huntsmen (and dealing with them) does not outweigh the positives. He'll be fine a few drinks from now

Rachel

jad n rich

Poor thing was probably just thirsty, no rain for ages now, it makes them come inside looking for water, you should have offered him a

Hutch

lol - funny thread. My missus is shit-scared of spiders. One night she phones me up at the nightclub I'm DJing at, screaming down the phone that there's this f'ing great spider in the bedroom and that she can't sleep, so I have to bugger off, mid-set, to sort it out. I go into the bedroom and there's one of those long-leggy garden spiders, so I get a cup and a bit of card to scoop him and accidentally knock him on the floor. The missus fair shits herself and runs into the kitchen and tells me to get the wretched thing. Only problem is, the bed in our flat was exactly the same width as the room (made getting in and out of bed when pissed amusing), so basically - I had to dismantle the whole bed. Eventually find the thing clinging to the bottom of a rucksack. Rebuild bed, return to nightclub, finish set, vow to send wife for hypnotism therapy. She has got a lot better since, but I reckon she'll probably enter low-earth orbit when she sees her first huntsman.

RReed

While you are trying to find it.... here are some huntsman stories from my work colleagues:

One midwife has a husband who has perfected a technique with a tea-towel where he flicks and kills in one swift action. However, he did this in her kitchen to a pregnant huntman - she died and released all her babies (thousands) all over the floor. They promptly ran for cover and have emerged regularly since :scared:

Another colleague was taking a shower at a mates house when a huntsman decided to climb her leg to escape the waterfall. She freaked out (obviously), pulled the shower shelf off the wall and fell out of the shower along with the shower curtain.

Rachel