Killing Spiders...

[stan1980]

So I was round a friends, when we noticed the biggest spider you've ever seen crawling along the floor. Anyway, there was no way I was touching it and she didn't fancy it either, but then we had a brainwave, you could say it was inspired even...

Her 3 year old nephew was sleeping in the room next door, so we woke him up and asked him to place the biggest book we could find (the Oxford English Dictionary) to place on the spider's head.

Is it fundamentally wrong, exploiting the naivety of a toddler and asking him to murder an innocent creature?

Or is it simply a case of pulling together as a team, making the most of our resources at hand, to exterminate an unwanted pest?

(I wish I wasn't scared of spiders )

 

[Washington]

So I was round a friends, when we noticed the biggest spider you've ever seen crawling along the floor. Anyway, there was no way I was touching it and she didn't fancy it either, but then we had a brainwave, you could say it was inspired even...

Her 3 year old nephew was sleeping in the room next door, so we woke him up and asked him to place the biggest book we could find (the Oxford English Dictionary) to place on the spider's head.

Is it fundamentally wrong, exploiting the naivety of a toddler and asking him to murder an innocent creature?

Or is it simply a case of pulling together as a team, making the most of our resources at hand, to exterminate an unwanted pest?

(I wish I wasn't scared of spiders )

Of course it was simply a case of pulling together as a team. You and your neighbor teamed up to use her nephew to do what you couldn't do. Making the most of the resources at hand: her nephew.

 

[Bombila]

I'm betting (hoping) you didn't actually do this, since waking a kid from a nap to squash a spider is just utterly out there in the realm of how not to raise your child.

Teaching kids to kill things they don't plan to eat and which pose no reasonable threat is stupid. Enough of them try that out on their own anyway, and responsible adults try to inform them why that's not such a great idea.

Also, now you have spider guts all over your OED.

Learn to use a wide mouth container and a piece of cardboard to catch spiders so they can be released outdoors when you don't want them inside.

And Stan? Go here:

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

 

[Polycarp_fan]

So I was round a friends, when we noticed the biggest spider you've ever seen crawling along the floor. Anyway, there was no way I was touching it and she didn't fancy it either, but then we had a brainwave, you could say it was inspired even...

Her 3 year old nephew was sleeping in the room next door, so we woke him up and asked him to place the biggest book we could find (the Oxford English Dictionary) to place on the spider's head.

Is it fundamentally wrong, exploiting the naivety of a toddler and asking him to murder an innocent creature?

Or is it simply a case of pulling together as a team, making the most of our resources at hand, to exterminate an unwanted pest?

(I wish I wasn't scared of spiders )

Yes, too bad.

You should have allowed it to live and to protect the toddler (and you) from flying insects that can bite and sting. If it was a wolf (or gound) spider, you just allowed any crawling bug to establish a residence in your home.

 

[jcook922]

So I was round a friends, when we noticed the biggest spider you've ever seen crawling along the floor. Anyway, there was no way I was touching it and she didn't fancy it either, but then we had a brainwave, you could say it was inspired even...

Her 3 year old nephew was sleeping in the room next door, so we woke him up and asked him to place the biggest book we could find (the Oxford English Dictionary) to place on the spider's head.

Is it fundamentally wrong, exploiting the naivety of a toddler and asking him to murder an innocent creature?

Or is it simply a case of pulling together as a team, making the most of our resources at hand, to exterminate an unwanted pest?

(I wish I wasn't scared of spiders )

.... You couldn't drop the book on it yourself from up high?

I'd love to watch you have a few camel spider encounters.

 

[wanderingone]

So I was round a friends, when we noticed the biggest spider you've ever seen crawling along the floor. Anyway, there was no way I was touching it and she didn't fancy it either, but then we had a brainwave, you could say it was inspired even...

Her 3 year old nephew was sleeping in the room next door, so we woke him up and asked him to place the biggest book we could find (the Oxford English Dictionary) to place on the spider's head.

Is it fundamentally wrong, exploiting the naivety of a toddler and asking him to murder an innocent creature?

Or is it simply a case of pulling together as a team, making the most of our resources at hand, to exterminate an unwanted pest?

(I wish I wasn't scared of spiders )

I simply can't believe this happened.. no sane parent wakes a kid from a nap.. oh wait it was her nephew...

So yeah it was wrong to wake up the kid -and if he was awake it was wrong to lead him to believe he wasn't killing the spider, get a grip, grab a cup or jar and after spidey crawls in run screaming to the window and toss him out into the world to continue on his journey.

(and now that I've read bombila's post... there's the spider guts on the book thing.. ewww)

 

[Bombila]

Wanderingone, do check out the link, too. ;-D

 

[LoisGriffin]

Lol I would have done the same thing!

I usually get my husband and if he isnt around I get one of the cats to eat it. I am such a wimp and couldn't go near enough to kill the thing (and yes it does have to die).

 

[comana]

Lol I would have done the same thing!

I usually get my husband and if he isnt around I get one of the cats to eat it. I am such a wimp and couldn't go near enough to kill the thing (and yes it does have to die).

I feel the same way. I wish I still had a cat; they are so good at spider killing.

 

[God-free]

Is it fundamentally wrong, exploiting the naivety of a toddler and asking him to murder an innocent creature?

Yes. Children should be taught to value and respect all forms of life (even the ones that give us the heebie-jeebies).

Or is it simply a case of pulling together as a team, making the most of our resources at hand, to exterminate an unwanted pest?

Bombila is right. You should've caught the spider and released it outdoors. However, if the place was crawling with them, you'd have a good reason to call in an exterminator.

(I wish I wasn't scared of spiders )

No need to fear them unless they are poisonous. Just how big was this spider anyway?

Here's something that'll keep you up nights:

I heard, or read, somewhere that spiders (and other creepy crawlies) sometimes enter our mouths while we sleep. Can you guess what happens next? We've all probably chewed up and swallowed a few multipeds in our lifetimes without knowing it.

Pleasant dreams.

~Barbara

 

[jcook922]

Yes. Children should be taught to value and respect all forms of life (even the ones that give us the heebie-jeebies).

Bombila is right. You should've caught the spider and released it outdoors. However, if the place was crawling with them, you'd have a good reason to call in an exterminator.

No need to fear them unless they are poisonous. Just how big was this spider anyway?

Here's something that'll keep you up nights:

I heard, or read, somewhere that spiders (and other creepy crawlies) sometimes enter our mouths while we sleep. Can you guess what happens next? We've all probably chewed up and swallowed a few multipeds in our lifetimes without knowing it.

Pleasant dreams.

~Barbara

Aww crap, I crunched a beetle under my boot today.

That makes me glad that I sleep on my stomach, with my mouth thoroughly sealed by my pillow.

 

[God-free]

Aww crap, I crunched a beetle under my boot today.

Say 10 Hail Mary's and sin no more.

That makes me glad that I sleep on my stomach, with my mouth thoroughly sealed by my pillow.

Hmmm... do you always wake up in that same position? Are you suuuure?

~Barbara

 

[jcook922]

Say 10 Hail Mary's and sin no more.

Hmmm... do you always wake up in that same position? Are you suuuure?

~Barbara

Always!

 

[wanderingone]

I feel the same way. I wish I still had a cat; they are so good at spider killing.

I've got 4 cats, and a ridiculous number of spiders still make it out of rooms alive while my spoiled felines lazily bat at their shadows. My son calls the spiders we have "boogers with legs" they are ugly snot colored things known to appear suddenly as if whipped up out of air dangling from the ceiling right next to our heads at eye level when our hands are busy with some crafty activity and not free to flail wildly at them.

I am harboring a not so secret and probably hopeless fantasy that these spiders will not exist a couple miles down the road in the ancient house we are buying. (on the other hand the current owner of the house is a taxidermist.. and perhaps spiders would be better than the ghosts of angry bears pawing around at night in search of their skins.)

 

[Caitlin.ann]

Umm I would have either found something to put it outside without killing it or ran..I hate spiders.

 

[Bombila]

Quick Googling about has produced several interesting items. First, to reassure the fearful, the sleep-spider eating thing is likely hogwash, unless there are baby spiders at ballooning stage in your room, in which case you might eat a dozen in one night. >;-D

Second, there is likely an average of one spider per sq.ft. living in your home, most of them decidedly out of sight, in your closets, attics, basements, in the walls and under the floor boards. This is a good thing, as they likely eat a lot of bugs you want even less in your home. And that's a lot of spiders.

Third, those spiders are almost universally harmless to humans. Most haven't the fang strength to bite through your skin and haven't the motivation to try, and the few that do either have no effect, leave a small itchy bump, or at worst, and very rarely if you live where really poisonous spiders dwell, will make you sick and in need of medical attention. (Do not Google for that video of the self-lancing idiot who let a really bad spider bite get to the stage of liquidizing half the flesh under the skin of his jaw, unless you are a big fan of really gross stuff, in which case, you're welcome.)

 

[wanderingone]

Wanderingone, do check out the link, too. ;-D

I was afraid to at first, I thought it might some giant spider getting squished or something equally gross... I'm surprised it wasn't blocked by our fun blocking software here at work... In the end there were 6 of us puttering around with that hairy spider on our PC's when the commissioner came in to ask if anyone had finished drafting the informational release for a tedious new regulation he was looking for-- fortunately we had.. so he did not comment on the spiders other than suggesting that we were all a bit pathetic... :o

 

[pgp_protector]

I was afraid to at first, I thought it might some giant spider getting squished or something equally gross... I'm surprised it wasn't blocked by our fun blocking software here at work... In the end there were 6 of us puttering around with that hairy spider on our PC's when the commissioner came in to ask if anyone had finished drafting the informational release for a tedious new regulation he was looking for-- fortunately we had.. so he did not comment on the spiders other than suggesting that we were all a bit pathetic... :o

Yea, I've actually got that link before & saved on my toolbar

 

[Bombila]

Ha! I pass that link on to visiting kidlets, because it keeps the younger ones busy for quite a while, especially when they figure out how to make it jump and curl up.

 

[pgp_protector]

That And make a trail of bugs for it to eat