Camel Spider causes house evacuation.

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Seeing as OcUK users have an interest in Camel Spiders.....

Spider forces family out of home

A soldier's family have been frightened out of their home by a dangerous spider thought to have been brought to Essex from Afghanistan in a kitbag.

Lorraine Griffiths and her three children have moved out of their house in Colchester, the RSPCA said.

They are refusing to return until the large sandy-coloured creature, thought to be a camel spider, is captured.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7585391.stm
 
How would they identify the spider using the internet? :confused:

It's not like you can ask jeeves, what spider did I just see?

Maybe they post on here.
 
Cool I wonder what they will do with the captured spider ?

I personally would have tried catching it myself and made it my pet
 
Looks what I brought back for you kids! Suprise!

Urban legends
Solifugae (Camel Spider) are the subject of many urban legends and exaggerations about their size, speed, behavior, appetite, and lethality. They are not especially large, the biggest having a leg span of perhaps 12 centimeters (5 in). They are fast on land compared to other invertebrates, the fastest can run perhaps 16 kilometers per hour (10 mph), nearly half as fast as the fastest human sprinter. Members of this order of Arachnida apparently have no venom, with the possible exception of one species in India (see below) and do not spin webs.

In the Middle East, it is widely rumored among American and coalition military forces stationed there that Solifugae will feed on living human flesh. The story goes that the creature will inject some anaesthetizing venom into the exposed skin of its sleeping victim, then feed voraciously, leaving the victim to awaken with a gaping wound. Solifugae, however, do not produce such an anaesthetic, and they do not attack prey larger than themselves unless threatened. Other stories include tales of them leaping into the air, disemboweling camels, screaming, and running alongside moving humvees; all of these tales are dubious at best. Due to their bizarre appearance many people are startled or even afraid of them. This fear was sufficient to drive a family from their home when one was discovered in a soldier's house in Colchester. The greatest threat they pose to humans, however, is their bite in self-defense when one tries to handle them. There is essentially no chance of death directly caused by the bite, but, due to the strong muscles of their chelicerae, they can produce a proportionately large, ragged wound that is prone to infection.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae

Still, I'd probably be a bit freaked out.
 
Ugh! imagine they catch it, but dont realise its laid a giant nest in their attic :(

IM ITCHING ALL OVER
 
I know about the internets sir!

I was just assuming they didn't get a good look at it, so how would you begin interogating the internets, but reading this would suggest they had a very good look at it.
 
'Camel Spiders have tats on their fore arms and benchpress tanks for breakfast.' Quoting my ex-comrade whilst in Iraq :D

Seen them up close (Iraq 2003 and 2005) and they ain't pretty. Used to stick a Camelie in a box with lots of those freaky sized soldier ants found out there and see how many ants it took to take one out. :D
 
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