"Daddy, careful!"

Heh.

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I love how he ended up catching his foot.

Instant upvote, I don't want to meet the person who can't laugh at that.

Instead of shooting where I was you should have shot where I was going to be!

>> ^imstellar28:
Instead of shooting where I was you should have shot where I was going to be!


Sounds like a spot for Viagra.

CHRIST! Did it travel back through time too??

This video is hilarious.
The guy is completely composed, even educative up until the moment of 'capture', then all hell reigns loose haha

It jumped a split second before he moved on it.

You haven't had insomnia until you're a kid and these things are making noises 4 feet above you in the rafters. (SHIVER!)

"Bloimey! Little bugger runs fast, don't it? Now where'd the bleeder get off to? Musta run off after a koala! Roit, time for a Fahstah's -- OH JESUS! GEDDITOFF! GEDDITOFF! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"

Reason #2,576 why you're seriously glad Australia is on the other side of the planet and entirely surrounded by water.

>> ^alizarin:

You haven't had insomnia until you're a kid and these things are making noises 4 feet above you in the rafters. (SHIVER!)


O_O

Haha! *fear *fail

Huntsman spiders aren`t poisonous, but their sheer size is scary enough!

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The ending was beautiful.

I can't make out what she says at the end?

Looks like he might have chopped it in half.

My spider sense is tingling...seems staged to me, the shots were too perfect. Funny none the less.

Yeah, I hope the spider is OK.

>> ^jimnms:
Looks like he might have chopped it in half.

Hilarious! That has definitely happened to me before, just not with such a huge and freaky spider! For us non-Aussies, can anyone translate what the girl says at the end? It sounds like, "I told you not..." And I can't figure out the rest.

>> ^furrycloud:
Hilarious! That has definitely happened to me before, just not with such a huge and freaky spider! For us non-Aussies, can anyone translate what the girl says at the end? It sounds like, "I told you not..." And I can't figure out the rest.


"I tol' you not to play wif spider."

WTF IS THAT THING!!! DON'T CATCH IT! KILL IT!

All I can say is if those things where poisonous, there would be no humans in Australia.

He should've gone at it from behind.

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!

Sorry you can't set yourself up for a "That's what she said" without giving a 5 second window of opportunity for someone else to reply (or 5 post)... It's Rule #5

>> ^Shpydir:
He should've gone at it from behind.
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!

Here's my contribution from a couple of years ago:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Massive-Spider-is-Watching-You-Australian-Nightmare

...and just what was he going to do if he HAD gotten the container over her?

I know, right? I was thinking the same thing. It's not like that container can hold up to the acid for blood, or it's laser beam eyes...?

yeh laura, if i am forced to catch them i would use a container such as that and a piece of cardboard to put over the top. i normally let them run free because they kill other more annoying creatures (or poisonous - redback spiders), and they aren't agressive at all.

What a crappy camera assistant! Screaming and dropping the camera is for amateurs.

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We have lots of huntsmen in and around our house here in Brisbane. They eat other pests so we treat them kind of like working pets. It is weird to be watching a DVD or something and see one walking across the floor. They hunt at night.

i thought i heard her say "i thought you weren't afraid of spiders"

Asshole just killed that fucking spider. >:[ He cut the fucker in half. Dude, stop being a stupid pussy and just grab it.. or at least have it drop into a net.. Don't CUT IT THE FUCK IN HALF WITH YOUR SHITTY OLD MAN REFLEXES AND ILLOGICAL FEAR BORNE OF IGNORANCE. Dick.

>> ^Drax:
CHRIST! Did it travel back through time too??


Actually, I recall reading some small blurb about researchers entertaining the notions that spiders have the ability to see a little bit into the future as an explanation for their reflexes. Now, that's highly unlikely to be true, but it does illustrate a point: They're seriously responsive critters.

As a recovering arachnophobe, that terrified me. I had to watch this from across the room and it still gave me the heebie jeebies.


However, because this didn't happen to me, it's hilarious.

They are definitely intimidating spiders, even though they're harmless. Aside from being as big as your hand, they are extremely fast and when cornered, will lightening-speed jump great distances to evade capture.

When I was a kid, we put one in a jar with a venomous red back spider and took bets on which would win. The huntsman immediately pounced on the red back and killed it instantly. We were all in awe, because we were all afraid of red backs, hearing stories of kids who'd been hospitalised for bites. The huntsman became our hero!

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As an Aussie I find it hilarious that people can't understand what she says at the end... tee hee.

Also, yeah, the good ol' huntsman is a staple of our homes and the usual method for removing them from areas you'd rather not have them fall on you is to cover them with a glass or other container and put some cardboard/paper over the top and let it go outside... do a few of these that way at our place a month.

Also, I doubt he chopped it in half, I would say he barely hit it with the bowl before dropping it with fright.

>> ^laura:
...and just what was he going to do if he HAD gotten the container over her?

stand there for the rest of his life.

Why live in Australia if these things do? Working pets or no, that's nasty, and unnatural, and sick.