You've got to get a good friend to suck that venom out!>> ^Yogi:

Oh my god...that's...how does the body fight that?!??!

>> ^Yogi:

Oh my god...that's...how does the body fight that?!??!


By running away before you get bitten.

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Not all that brave -- puffer fish are not venomous, they're just toxic to eat.

This, Five Deadly Venoms and Crippled Avengers have to be the trifecta of off-beat 70's kung-fu that used to run on Channel 5 KTLA all the time. Makes me miss the days of good ol' UHF/VHF TV.

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

NO spider is poisonous, they are however all venomous (man that irks me when people get that wrong).


I bet you must HATE Alice Cooper, then.

Two things to do with the Daddy Longlegs misconception. First of all, the name "Daddy Longlegs" can refer to harvestmen (arachnids, not spiders), but also frequently refers to cellar spiders (spiders). Second of all, no the cellar spider is not poisonous. NO spider is poisonous, they are however all venomous (man that irks me when people get that wrong). In the case of the cellar spider the venom has very very little affect on humans.

>> ^Reefie:

Really? Oh dear... The first two Spiderman films were pretty damned decent, it was only the third one with that black goo stuff that spoiled the trilogy. Toby Maguire was perfectly cast for the role, he was almost exactly what I anticipated from the comics.
Next up: Lord of the Rings - Back to Middle Earth.


That "black goo stuff" gave us Carnage. Don't diss on the BGS just because you only got to meet Venom.


Just sayin'.

Spider Man's not my bag, but having read the comics I found Venom to be the only baddie worth watching.

I'm not into it.

>> ^direpickle:

I'd be scared, too. Australian crickets are probably venomous.
and chirp with that weird accent.

I'd be scared, too. Australian crickets are probably venomous.

I'm pretty wigged out by spiders, but I like snakes. So for me, I tried to mentally convert this video into a snake expert "handling" a cobra or something. The way I see it, sure, you can have an expertise level and skill level that would allow you to handle either sort of animal relatively safely. But even in that case, there aren't a whole lot of particularly practical reasons to put that into practice.

My hometown in Kansas has lots of bullsnakes. In my experience, large older bullsnakes are often pretty docile but the young juvenile ones are usually very defensive and will rear up, strike, and mimic rattlesnake sounds and actions. However, they are non-venomous and don't have "fangs", although they do have short teeth that can provide small, shallow puncture wounds if they get a good nip on you.

I like catching bullsnakes when I see them and handling them a bit before releasing them back into the wild. The docile ones are particularly fun, but even the juveniles that show some aggression can be fun to handle with some caution. I have never been bit myself, but I have seen people that have been. No lasting harm comes from that, and in most instances it wouldn't even draw blood -- the surprise of it is probably worse than the damage.

In spite of that, I have no interest whatsoever in handling something like a rattlesnake or other venomous snake. Looking at them, sure. But I don't see much practicality in handling them. In all likelihood, I could safely handle rattlers in the same way that I handle bullsnakes and avoid being bit. But the cost of failure would be higher (lots of pain and small possibility of death).

So at least for me personally, I don't think I'd be interested in handling black widows even if I was a spider person instead of a snake person. I'm not against the author of this video handling them, but I would stop short of the "you should try this at home" tag!

One of the hardest things to get a black widow to do is bite. This is why research on black widow venom is difficult - the collection!

Going under the assumption that the spider is still actively venomous & the guy is therefore "ball flexing"....umm...

*Actionpack?