Millions of baby spiders appeared to rain down from the sky earlier this month in the Southern Tablelands in Australia. One resident described the effect it had on their home as such: “The whole place was covered in these little black spiderlings and when I looked up at the sun it was like this tunnel of webs going up for a couple of hundred metres into the sky.”
Read that again and try not to let your mind implode from the Lovecraftian horror from it all.
The phenomenon is (terrifyingly) not that uncommon. Apparently the spiders “balloon” by throwing out sheets of webbing and use the winds to carry themselves around. When weather conditions are poor, none of the spiders go anywhere of course. But when the weather picks up again, they all leave in one terrifying hell-swarm.
Again, a salute to the brave (insane?) people who continue to call the continent of Australia their home.
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That car wash boy is anal about clean! I’d love to see how many of the electrical devices work after that!
I had an old 75 Ford F-250 that I hosed out numerous times. The fan motor smoked a bit but everything still worked!
Female Red-Backs falling from he sky – that would NOT be such a good thing!
These were pretty small and non-hazardous spiders, and Goulburn had had this sort of thing happen there in the past (as have many Southern Highlands towns – Robertson, Mittagong, etc.).
Just another good reason to “come and visit” – we have such an “interesting” range of wildlife here . . . 🙂
After much testing, three guys qualify for the final test to be CIA field operatives. Each is told that they must take a gun off the table, walk through a door and kill the person in the room in order to pass the test. The first two go in and come out sobbing saying that they cannot complete the test because their wives were in the room. The third guy goes in and it gets quiet for a couple of minutes followed by one hell of a commotion for several minutes and then silence again. The guy comes out of the room and explains that someone loaded his gun with blanks so he had to beat his wife to death.
IS: Does that mean he passed?
@T4C: Great additions to Friday Fails! I didn’t know whether to believe the earlier pix of the spiders until your post. Yuck… My down-fall (literally) are wasps.. I was a maybe 4 year old at the time (YES – I still remember it), driving along with Mom and Dad (no A/C) with the old fashioned air deflectors in both windows open all the way (hot Texas day). A yellow jacket bounced off Mom’s deflector, lit on my bare knee (I was in the back seat) and stung me 6 times as it crawled up my leg. He/she was pissed and emptied his “sting tank” completely!
I have been known to run right off a ladder (at height) to avoid a wasp and I know where the phobia came from!!
MA
@Phil — you’re not kidding. “Interesting?” More than half the things there will kill you. Though the barramundi and the roo are delicious, as are the tawny ports.