RTaylor says:

If that thing was on my ceiling I would have used my .410 on it.

yanikinwaoz says:

When I lived in Oz, I’d find Huntsmen in the house from time to time. And yes, they are huge and very, very fast. Like this guy, I’d use a large bowl to trap them and then take them out to the garden to eat bugs.

They are also loud (for a spider). One morning I was brushing my teeth and I heard what sounded like chewing. I looked up and there was a Huntsman sitting on the wall eating something. I could actually hear him masticating. Uggh.

There is a story in Perth about a terrible freeway accident. One morning a woman was driving to work. She lowered her visor to block the morning sun and a Huntsman dropped in her lap. She freaked and crashed.

m.c. in l.v. says:

My Aussie in-laws are very nonchalant about the spiders they come across in their house. The last time we were there the cats were playing with a decent sized tarantella-looking thing. Fuck that shit! I hate spiders. Next time use the shop vac or a flamethrower!

Jason says:

ROFLMAO!!!!!

sargasso says:

Where there are conifer trees there are various enormous wood-pile spiders like the Huntsman, Wolf and Avondale. Most are non venomous, although they are able to bite and inflict a necrotic bacterial and enzyme goo. I bought an old forestry house in New Zealand, and spent a lot of time and money killing off these, huge, funnel webbed spiders. A can of WD40 for close encounters, permethrin based surface insecticides to treat the webs and rafters, wait a week and use an industrial vacuum cleaner.

JoaoPT says:

lamer than lame…

Lou says:

Hey Johnny D.
How can you have a vid with some guy and his spider. Then a vid of some guys blowing up a tank/shed. But you have nothing on how the supreme court sold out every person in the USA yesterday. Step up the content on the blog.

M0les says:

I have two words for you: Hair spray.

If you’re particularly afraid of spiders, I have one more: lighter.

M0les says:

I should add that there’s a small-ish (2″) one living in my wife’s car’s wing-mirror. It usually likes to make a sprint across the driver’s side window as you’re pulling a tight turn in a carpark or similar thus causing you to lose control of the car and your bowels simultaneously.

Not poisonous or aggressive but highly geared to making you freak-out at short notice.

deowll says:

I was going to suggest knocking it down with a broom but I think a vacuum is clearly head a shoulders the best option.