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Nellie
10-20-2005, 04:52 AM
How would you like to come home and look at the clock and see this?
http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/spiderphotos/clock_legs_small.jpg
Here are two more pics of the same spider.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030625235624/users.pandora.be/nicolas1/clockspider2.jpg
http://web.archive.org/web/20030625234708/users.pandora.be/nicolas1/clockspider3.jpg
CHPwannaBE
10-20-2005, 10:10 AM
When I used to live in NorCal we would get black widows. They are deadly but not as bad as that one.
Darth Choke
10-20-2005, 01:57 PM
What god in heaven created such a monster????
Holy hell.....what kind of spider is that and in what state????
SB 405
10-20-2005, 02:30 PM
If I walked in my house and saw that bad boy hangin' on the wall I'm not sure what I'd so first.....s#*it my pants or pass out.
Welpe
10-20-2005, 02:38 PM
Ma, get mah scatter gun! The mutant spider is back! :shock:
Nellie
10-20-2005, 04:03 PM
That spider is in Australia. It is supposedly not harmful to humans. They have their own version of a black widow, called "redbacks."
Darth Choke
10-20-2005, 05:11 PM
It is supposedly not harmful to humans.
Bullcrap. That thing is harmful. I just saw it and I am traumatized. I would kill that thing until it died twice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sure Mentor has better stories than this, but I was surprised just spending a few nights at a buddies place in Death Valley. He had the garage open one evening and it was like the spider & insect exhibit at your local science museum... Probably a few snakes we didn't see, too. I don't know if I could deal with it. I don't mind critters, but that place is something else.
PharmGirl
10-24-2005, 07:41 AM
OH NOOOOO! I can handle black widows....get them often actully had one living in the 'fake' web we hung for halloween actually.....
BUT that thing...ya I would MOVE! not sharing a residence with a creature like that!!
OMG NO!
<<<shudders>>>>
Your Mentor
10-24-2005, 06:02 PM
No kidding dw; I found scorpions clinging to walls nightly and had the contracted pest control guy surround the DV house with snake repellant (pellets). I found sidewinders coiled against the house walls in soft sand every night when I got off. I did everything I could to get rid of them because I didn't want my dog getting bit. The scorpions weren't that dangerous but they were huge. I remember killing one with the yawara handle of my PR-24 one night and the juices it issued litterally destroyed a pair of uniform pants. Sidewinders, oddly enough, are tiny venomous snakes. I'd always seen film clips on Discovery channel but didn't realize they were close ups. They're really little snakes, less than 8 inches. The Panamint Red Rattlesnake, on the other hand was about two feet long and as thick as my bicept. Use to clear them from the road all the time at Townes Pass.
SB 405
10-24-2005, 08:09 PM
Nice thought,kicking snake road kill off the roadway. Make sure ya don't get any of the guts caught up in the laces of your shoes.
Your Mentor
10-25-2005, 10:43 AM
Road kill is best removed using the shovel we carry in the trunk. Yuck. Of course this doesn't work for dead horses, elk, or deer. I called out Caltrans for that; need a loader to push it out of the road. Bull elk horns are big enough to chain to push bumpers but having witnessed, early on, an unconscious elk come to life after my beat partner attempted this maneuver, and the subsequent damage it did to his Caprice, I'd rather have a loader bucket between me and the elk. Oh, and a shovel only barely works for dead beavers. They're huge and man do they stink. That's one of the biggest rodents I've ever seen. They're almost as big as a seal. You have to get the shovel under the bulk of the body and then drag the shovel by the handle. You can just drag mountain lions, coyotes, bob cats, or any similarly sized animal, by their limbs. If a rattle snake is alive it only takes one wack with the shovel to kill it but keep your hands away from the head because snakes' nerves function for hours after death. Eyu! How's that for road-kill-removal training. Oh, and don't dispatch animals with a firearm. Paperwork results. Use the crowbar in the trunk.;)
SB 405
10-25-2005, 10:57 AM
Mentor,I saw a story on TV a few years ago about a CHP Officer who stopped at an accident scene where a deer had been struck by a car and because the animal was suffering the Officer shot it in the head and within minutes they then discovered the deer was pregnant and started to deliver her calf right on the shoulder of the road. The calf lived and was adopted by a local family and given the name "Highway" Have you ever heard of this story and are you guys allowed to discharge your wepons for such a cause?
Your Mentor
10-25-2005, 11:29 AM
I've never heard that story but what a great story. It'd be awesome to talk to the officer. And yes, we can discharge our firearms to dispatch critically injured or rabid animals. There are some conditions that have to be met and you must obtain a supervisor's approval before doing so. Nowadays, offices where it happens a lot (mountain areas) there's a form memo to complete if you do it. Earlier in my career it wasn't a form memo (at least in the office I worked) and it was one of those memos that boomaranged from supervisor, from commander, and from division. Someone finally figured it out that doing so was no big deal. I remember the first time I had to do it. My beat partner was on the other side of the beat and so couldn't reach me via car to car. A very scratchy transmission came through, "_on't __oot _t." I couldn't make it out. At debrief he told me to use the crowbar because the command, at the time, was so picky about the memo. He was right and I never used my firearm again. The crowbar worked better anyway. We carried .38's back then which were pea-shooters. It took four rounds two feet away to do the job. We didn't have long guns back then. In fact, the very day after I put that deer down I went out and bought a .357 magnum which was an optional carry if you bought your own.
SB 405
10-25-2005, 11:58 AM
Yeah the story I saw on TV had some re-inacting along with some actual footage shot by a bystander with a video camera. I remember seeing someone doing "mouth to snout" on the calf while everyone stood around in silence watching. After a few minutes the calf let out a big breath of air followed by crying and everyone started clapping and tearing up. Very moving to watch because second only to children animals are my weak spot. You carry a .357? I'd love to see the look on everyone's face when you pull that canon out of the trunk:lol:
Your Mentor
10-25-2005, 12:27 PM
I don't know of an officer who doesn't have a soft spot for animals; especially baby ones. I get all torn up over dogs in crashes. In fact, if I see a friendly dog in a car during a traffic stop I can't help but pet it and so end up giving the driver a warning. Puppies turn me into a blithering idiot.
No, I don't carry a .357 anymore. No one on the CHP does; except perhaps as a concealed backup gun. We transitioned to .40 cals in 1992. We are required to carry the departmentally issued side arm now and don't have a choice otherwise. I'd go back to my .357 in a heartbeat if they let me. Not going to happen though.
SB 405
10-25-2005, 02:08 PM
Mentor don't you find that most dogs would like to have a person in a uniform for lunch? Ask any Letter Carrier. I would think the sight of you walking up to the window of a car on a traffic stop with a dog inside would cause our little K-9 friend to lose his/her mind.:shock:
Your Mentor
10-25-2005, 04:16 PM
Dogs sense fear. I let them know I dig them and if they start the hate I back off. Usually they're intimidated by an alpha male. They know when you're confident and it usually commands submission. On the other hand, I've watched animal control people, anxious to show off how good they are with animals (they all think they're dog-whisperers), get bitten. Just know when NOT to get your hand near the muzzle. I've also seen postal workers freak about my dog who would unlock my safe for them. Dogs are emotional animals and sense everything at a level we'll never understand. I've actually taken dogs out of crashes home because they were so freaked by animal control. I actually took my dog to the Academy every day from 1998 to 2000. Every now and then someone who I taught will ask about him. He's getting pretty old now.
Nellie
10-25-2005, 04:55 PM
Mentor,I saw a story on TV a few years ago about a CHP Officer who stopped at an accident scene where a deer had been struck by a car...
Did any of you see "Me Myself and Irene"? Jim Carrey plays a highway patrol in some New England state and tries to put a cow down with his weapon, but it ended up living in the end.
Your Mentor
10-25-2005, 05:02 PM
One of my favorite movies and favorite movie scenes. The movie was the result of the same director of Dumb and Dumber. It should have been given more notice. I thought it was way funnier than Supertroopers. Although I liked that too.
Nellie
10-26-2005, 03:03 PM
I have run into a few folks who has said that I "must" watch Super Troopers if I am going into the CHP. I haven't seen it.
I have run into a few folks who have said that I "must" watch Super Troopers if I am going into the CHP. I haven't seen it.
Don't waste your time, IMO - I thought it was one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen. I couldn't even watch it all the way through, and that was while in a motorhome on a 12-hour road trip with nothing better to do! :razz: "Me, Myself and Irene" was much funnier.....heck, I even think "Reno 9-1-1" episodes on the Comedy Channel are funnier!
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