[Leica] IMG: Invader

[al.crouch at earthlink.net (al crouch)]

Peter:
I'm not sure whether these guys weave webs, but if you wake in the middle of 
the night and you can't move your arms and legs because of some filmy, 
stringy netting around you....try not to panic.  It's just that Mommy didn't 
like her babies getting whacked. 8=) 



-----Original Message---  
>From: Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com>
>Sent: Aug 26, 2016 6:49 PM
>To: lug <lug at leica-users.org>, olympus at thomasclausen.net, leicareflex 
>at freelists.org
>Subject: [Leica] IMG: Invader
>
>Trigger warning: Not for arachnophobes.
>
><https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at 
>N04/28629761984/in/dateposted-public/> 
>
>
>For the last four consecutive evenings, I have been summoned to do 
>battle with one of these big guys. Leg span 3.25 inches (8.25 cm). Now, 
>you may think that he is a common Giant House Spider. But I have it on 
>good authority that he and his comrades in terror were radioactively 
>mutated to giant size in a top secret North Korean nuclear facility, and 
>their venom laced with the horrific mind-control element 
>Kimjongunium-117. They were then smuggled into the south and sent to the 
>U.S. in a Hyundai shipping container. All this being a nefarious plot to 
>turn us into mindless zombie commie followers of the chubby-cheeked 
>dictator.
>
>After doing my photographer's duty, I was required to do my husbandly 
>duty:  I whacked him. In "The Sopranos" sense.
>
>--Peter
>
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