Be careful going to the Bathroom

NEW POISONOUS SPIDER IN THE UNITED STATES

A spider bite...please read............ And you thought the brown recluse was bad!!!

Three women in North Florid...a , turned up at hospitals over a 5-day period, all with the same symptoms. Fever, chills, and vomiting, followed by muscular collapse, paralysis, and finally, death. There were no outward signs of trauma.

Autopsy results showed toxicity in the blood. These women did not know each other, and seemed to have nothing in common. It was discovered, however, that they had all visited the same Restaurant (Olive Garden) within days of their deaths.. The health department descended on the restaurant, shutting it down. The food, water, and air conditioning were all inspected and tested, to no avail.

The big break came when a waitress at the restaurant was rushed to the hospital with similar symptoms. She told doctors that she had been on vacation, and had only went to the restaurant to pick up her check. She did not eat or drink while she was there, but had used the restroom.

That is when one toxicologist, remembering an article he had read, drove out to the restaurant, went into the restroom, and lifted the toilet seat. Under the seat, out of normal view, was a small spider.

The spider was captured and brought back to the lab, where it was determined to be the Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata), so named because of its reddened flesh color. This spider's venom is extremely toxic, but can take several days to take effect. They live in cold, dark, damp climates, and toilet rims provide just the right atmosphere.

Several days later a lawyer from Jacksonville showed up at a hospital emergency room. Before his death, he told the doctor, that he had been away on business, had taken a flight from Indonesia , changing planes in Singapore, before returning home. He did not visit (Olive Garden), while there. He did, as did all of the other victims, have what was determined to be a puncture wound, on his right buttock.

Investigators discovered that the flight he was on had originated in India .
The Civilian Aeronautics Board (CAB) ordered an immediate inspection of the toilets of all flights from India , and discovered the Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata) spider's nests on 4 different planes!

It is now believed that these spiders can be anywhere in the country. So please, before you use a public toilet, lift the seat to check for spiders. It can save your life!

Oh my goodness!! That's terrible! We have the redback spider out here and it is lethal also, there was even a song made about it, "There was a redback on the toilet seat when I was there last night, I didnt see it in the dark but boy I felt it bite" LOL



They are tiny!

Hahahahaha Ponee you started it hahahahahaah!

OMG Sebbie that is waaaaay funny hahahaha!

I love that comic strip- I haven't seen it for years! Cracked me up when I used to read it in the Bangor Daily News paper, up in Bangor, Maine-

I am always a little suspicious of things like this, so I did a little digging.

The two-striped jumper, or Telamonia dimidiata, is a jumping spider found in various Asian tropical rain forests, in foliage in wooded environments.

Description
Females can reach a body length of 9–11 mm (0.35–0.43 in), males can reach a length of 8–9 mm (0.31–0.35 in). The female is light yellowish, with a very white cephalus and red rings surrounding the narrow black rings round the eyes. Two longitudinal bright red stripes are present on the opisthosoma. The male is very dark, with white markings, and red hairs around the eyes. They appear in Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, India, and Bhutan.


Since 1999, the spider has been the subject of an email hoax claiming that it was a fatal spider found lurking under toilet seats in North Florida. This hoax was a rehashing of an older email circulated in 1999 with similar claims, except under the name "South American Blush Spider (arachnius gluteus)" - literally "butt spider". Similar email hoaxes (with details of the original changed here and there) have been found in other parts of the world claiming that the same thing happened in that country. Lately it has also appeared on Facebook, also including a picture of the arachnid.

Posts commonly report of it being found world-round, suggesting everyone must take precautions. No such events appear to have occurred, and the story is considered an urban legend.

The spider's venom poses no danger to humans.
It looks to be a female from the images I found.

The spider picture is beautiful, so glad its not going to bite me in the tailend

terbo56 wrote:I love that comic strip- I haven't seen it for years! Cracked me up when I used to read it in the Bangor Daily News paper, up in Bangor, Maine-

I was looking for one of the older strips where the snake walked around on two legs with head and tail straight out parallel to the ground. Do you remember those, terbo. The ugly old fat gal was always WHOMPing him with her club.

true or not spiders are yuck!

Well I can tell you the redback spider is no hoax, it's lethal! And rick I totally agree spiders are the worst, give me a snake any day!

Yes, Seb, I remember the 'Fat'broad' that smashed that poor snake so many times, it looked like 'Beetle Bailey', after Sarge got done with him!! LMAO!!!!:cheers::cheers:

Yeah, if every word is a vibration that goes out and comes back, never say, "Bite me!" LOL