Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Thomas Shey]

I like spiders in general. Brown Recluse no, their bite is like getting tagged with a baseball bat. I had a Wolf Spider in my house bit me like 10 times, and I was like "I will find you, and kill you!" Which I eventually did. I had a Black Widow as a pet in a mason jar when I was a teen, they are very pretty, and surprisingly docile. Maybe I am part Drow.

They aren't hostile as it goes, but the bite is hazardous enough not to be risked. Its the coral snake problem all over again (as poisonous snakes go, they're actually very laid back, but, well...)

 

[Scribe]

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Seriously?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I once had a black widow fall between my feet from the bathroom fan while I was on the toilet. Lived in that house for decades and was the only black widow I ever saw there, but it made me very wary of bathroom fans (I don't know if it crawled in from outside, or if it was a fan that vented right into the attic as some homes around here do if the exhaust fan is done cheap)

In my case, it wasn’t a spider that emerged from a fan, but a wasp from a heating vent.

 

[dragoner]

They aren't hostile as it goes, but the bite is hazardous enough not to be risked. Its the coral snake problem all over again (as poisonous snakes go, they're actually very laid back, but, well...)

Unlike the Brown Recluse which will run up and bite you, the Black Widow hates to leave it's web, she would patiently wait at the top of the jar with the lid open for me to drop a bug in. In the wild, like in my garage, I going to kill it though. Same with Bees and Wasps, cool outside, inside, no.

 

[Velderan]

@payn @Scribe and anyone else who lives in the north can probably relate to this.

 

[Ryujin]

In my case, it wasn’t a spider that emerged from a fan, but a wasp from a heating vent.

I once had a wasp hit me in the middle of my chest, at 3:00am. Wouldn't have been so bad if my jacket hadn't been open and it hadn't then fallen down to around my navel, inside the jacket. Oh, and I should probably mention that I was riding my motorcycle at maybe 100 Kmh at the time. Got stung a half dozen times and started pounding on my stomach, to try and kill it.

The real annoying thing was that when I got home and took off my shirt to inspect the damage, the bloody thing flew up out of my balled up shirt.

And what the hell was a wasp doing, flying around, at 3:00am!!!!!

 

[Umbran]

I’m surprised there’s never been a WoD take on it.

I don't imagine White Wolf wanted to risk Disney lawyers coming at them.

But there was Lee Garvin's Gargoyles: The Vigil.

Gargoyles: The Vigil : Lee Garvin : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A fanmade splatbook made for World of Darkness, created to allow you play as a Gargoyle inspired by the eponymous Disney Afternoon Cartoon Show from the 90's

archive.org

Edit to add: These days, I'd probably look at Big Apple Sewer Samurai for Savage Worlds

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

 

[Maxperson]

I don't have a generic problem with spiders at all; since my wife does, I catch them and release the typical house spiders outside.

But if I come across a shiny black spider with a round thorax, it dies right now. I've only had it happen a couple times in my life (one in and one behind my garage), but I did not mess around.

I've had them at every house I've lived at, but they are becoming rarer. Apparently the brown widows are more aggressive and are killing off the black widows.

 

[Maxperson]

I once had a black widow fall between my feet from the bathroom fan while I was on the toilet. Lived in that house for decades and was the only black widow I ever saw there, but it made me very wary of bathroom fans (I don't know if it crawled in from outside, or if it was a fan that vented right into the attic as some homes around here do if the exhaust fan is done cheap)

It's unusual for one to be that high up. They more often make their webs between a wall(or other low object) and the ground at an angle.

 

[payn]

I once had a wasp hit me in the middle of my chest, at 3:00am. Wouldn't have been so bad if my jacket hadn't been open and it hadn't then fallen down to around my navel, inside the jacket. Oh, and I should probably mention that I was riding my motorcycle at maybe 100 Kmh at the time. Got stung a half dozen times and started pounding on my stomach, to try and kill it.

The real annoying thing was that when I got home and took off my shirt to inspect the damage, the bloody thing flew up out of my balled up shirt.

And what the hell was a wasp doing, flying around, at 3:00am!!!!!

I was riding my bicycle once when talking to ex wife who was riding with me when a yellow jacket landed right inside my mouth and stung my tongue in all of 2 seconds...