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UK: Briton finds venomous centipede in house
LA Daily News ^
| 8/31/05
| ap - London
Posted on 08/31/2005 10:04:07 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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An image released by Britain's Natural History Museum in London, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005, showing Natural History Museum expert Stuart Hine with a giant centipede 'Scolopendra gigantea', which was found in a north London home. Aaron Balick, 32, a psychologist from Islington, north London, trapped the venomous centipede in a plastic box after he found it behind his TV and took it to the Natural History Museum. There, experts identified it as 'Scolopendra gigantea' - the world's largest species of centipede. The creature measured nine inches long by just under an inch wide (not including its legs). (AP Photo / Natural History Museum, PA)
To: NormsRevenge
Man, if that ain't ever a gigantic case of the willies just waiting to happen.
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:05:26 AM PDT
by
Alien Gunfighter
(Socialist liberals never imagine themselves as peasants under their 'perfect' socialist regime)
To: NormsRevenge
Imagine waking up with that thing crawling across you in bed. I'm 6'3" 300 lbs and you would probably hear me scream like a 12 year old girl...
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:07:13 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading since 2004)
To: NormsRevenge
The creature measured nine inches long by just under an inch wide (not including its legs).Brits still using the olde English measuring system? Imagine that!
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:10:18 AM PDT
by
Fierce Allegiance
(This ain't your granddaddy's America)
To: NormsRevenge
I'm normally not afraid of bugs, but finding that thing might put me on the south side of the daisys! Yiikes!!
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:11:14 AM PDT
by
Millee
(Earth First! We'll log the other planets later!)
To: NormsRevenge
forget the can of raid
I'd be reaching for the shotgun.
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:12:49 AM PDT
by
flashbunny
(Always remember to bring a towel!)
To: NormsRevenge
"The Tingler" lives!
That'd leave a psychological mark.
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:13:02 AM PDT
by
Straight8
(Humpty Dumpty was pushed!(That's my conspiracy theory, and I'm Stickin' to it))
To: Abathar
A post like this, in these testing times, is what makes FreeRepublic extraordinary in a sea of ordinary.
keep smiling,
Philip.
To: NormsRevenge
In France, that thing could run for office.
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:14:20 AM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: Abathar
Imagine waking up with that thing crawling across you in bed. I'm 6'3" 300 lbs and you would probably hear me scream like a 12 year old girl... I think that I might produce a Riley-shaped hole in the ceiling with a fusillade of gunfire coming out of it.
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:17:47 AM PDT
by
Riley
(STOP CASTING POROSITY!!)
To: Fierce Allegiance
Their weights and volumes are measured metrically.
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:17:49 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: NormsRevenge
"I have the strangest feeling...I have seen that somewhere before..."
To: NormsRevenge
We need these at G'itmo.
That would get some intell out of terrorists!
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:18:27 AM PDT
by
DTogo
(U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
To: Riley
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:19:01 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading since 2004)
To: Fierce Allegiance
Brits still using the olde English measuring system? Imagine that! Units were probably converted by an American editor.
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:19:29 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azadi)
To: Carry_Okie
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:20:03 AM PDT
by
FOG724
(RINOS - they are not better than leftists, they ARE leftists.)
To: Alien Gunfighter
And just how many of these critters are running around the UK? I'll bet into the hundreds right now.
To: Kermit the Frog Does theWatusi
"Thinking it was a mouse, I went to investigate the sound. The sound was coming from under some papers which I lifted, expecting to see the mouse scamper away," the 32-year-old psychotherapist said Wednesday. "Instead, when I lifted the papers, I saw this prehistoric looking animal skitter away behind a stack of books." Psychotherapist, eh? It's possible a patient wrestling with some...uh...deep issues slipped it in there to have some fun with their shrink.
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:22:11 AM PDT
by
Samwise
("You have the nerve to say that terrorism is caused by resisting it?")
To: Abathar; Alien Gunfighter
Well, you should see some of the caterpillars they have in S.America. Some of those b@$tard$ look freakin' alien! Oh, and touch the bristles on their back and you will literally swell up like you were down with an elephantiasis infection!
We have some bad 'suckas' when it comes to caterpillars in the US, for example the Saddleback caterpillar below which can sting like heck and looks worse, but some of the Amazonian caterpillars are bloody murder!
And don't even get me started on the centipedes. I've seen a centipede eat a small bird. That is when you know you are not in Kansas anymore.
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posted on
08/31/2005 10:22:52 AM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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