My workplace here in Central Oregon used to be in a dilapidated metal utility building, and we’d occasionally get surprised by a black widow (or several) and once, a snake. Made life interesting. We’re in more modern digs now.
Another example of Jimmy’s dark sense of humour. It’s like those pits full of snakes, ete in the Indiana Jones movies. Am I the only one who asks what they eat to stay alive in those long abandoned pits. A few spiders sure keep the flying insect population in check.
Black widows cause no permanent damage if they don’t kill you. (And while the effects of the nerve poison are NOT pleasant, it takes more than one bite to kill a human.) What I worry about are the Brown Recluse. Their poison dissolves your flesh, leaving a permanent hole, or in the worst case requiring amputation.
Reminds me of the summer course I took long ago. One of my bunkmates caught a black widow and kept her in a jam jar. She laid eggs in there. When the eggs hatched the little ones easily escaped through the holes in the lid, inhabiting the whole cabin!
Yes, that’s obviously a joke about the spiders hidden in the layout. I’m pretty sure there are no spiders.
As for the snakes in Indiana Jones they are not trapped permanently underground. Snakes do congregate in pits in the ground when they can find them (especially for hibernation purposes) but they are able to slither in and out through cracks between rocks.
cpalmeresq over 10 years ago
Black widow spiders in the basement? Personally, I’d be heading back upstairs!
davidf42 over 10 years ago
The parents set up the model train in a basement filled with black widow spiders? Are they crazy, or are they asking to be arrested for child neglect?
OldManMountain over 10 years ago
Better “Stop, look, & listen”, than “Stop, drop, & roll”!
kab2rb over 10 years ago
Parents need to get rid of the spiders so children do not get hurt.
Jack Straw over 10 years ago
My workplace here in Central Oregon used to be in a dilapidated metal utility building, and we’d occasionally get surprised by a black widow (or several) and once, a snake. Made life interesting. We’re in more modern digs now.
elgancho38 over 10 years ago
Another example of Jimmy’s dark sense of humour. It’s like those pits full of snakes, ete in the Indiana Jones movies. Am I the only one who asks what they eat to stay alive in those long abandoned pits. A few spiders sure keep the flying insect population in check.
stuart over 10 years ago
Black widows cause no permanent damage if they don’t kill you. (And while the effects of the nerve poison are NOT pleasant, it takes more than one bite to kill a human.) What I worry about are the Brown Recluse. Their poison dissolves your flesh, leaving a permanent hole, or in the worst case requiring amputation.
ColonelClaus over 10 years ago
Come on, people. Jimmy is yanking Boog’s chain.
JP Steve Premium Member over 10 years ago
Reminds me of the summer course I took long ago. One of my bunkmates caught a black widow and kept her in a jam jar. She laid eggs in there. When the eggs hatched the little ones easily escaped through the holes in the lid, inhabiting the whole cabin!
Neil Wick over 10 years ago
Yes, that’s obviously a joke about the spiders hidden in the layout. I’m pretty sure there are no spiders.
As for the snakes in Indiana Jones they are not trapped permanently underground. Snakes do congregate in pits in the ground when they can find them (especially for hibernation purposes) but they are able to slither in and out through cracks between rocks.