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Interestingly, these spiders are also known as "banana spiders" because they often are caught up in shipments of bananas from Brazil. So, if you see a spider in your bananas, run away!

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From: "Dave Farber" <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: April 27, 2005 4:51:19 PM EST
To: "ip" <ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [IP] Saved from Spider Death by Cellphone Pic
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From: Ted Nelson <tandm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 27/4/'05, 16:56

Dave,

This just heard on BBC World Service, then found in Times.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1587022,00.html

A chef cleaning up in an English restaurant found a
humungous spider and snapped its picture on his mobile
phone, thinking his friends would never believe it.

The spider snapped too, biting him twice.

Soon he was in the emergency room and in mortal peril.
But he remembered the cellphone picture. The emergency
folks were able to get out the picture to Bristol Zoo, where
they recognized the world's deadliest spider, Phoneutria fera,
in time to save our chef.

Proves the rule: WHEN IN DOUBT, DOCUMENT!

Best,Ted


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