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Giant Spider Caught on Video in Bag of Ready-to-Eat Salad Is Ready for Its Close-Up
By Tom McKay February 08, 2016
Coming to a nightmare near you: This terrifying video of a gigantic spider biding its time presumably before committing a violent crime in a bag of salad that looks a little too similar to the ones in our local supermarkets.
Australian YouTube user Rick Perry fortunately spotted the eight-legged freak before he opened and ate the bag of salad, which carries a label assuring that its non-spider contents were "washed and ready to use," a consumer-facing promise that can easily be construed as "not containing a huge-ass spider."
The salad appears to be from Australian brand Woolworths, which coincidentally issued a recall of loose-leaf salad ingredients after a growing salmonella outbreak sickened dozens of people.
As FoodBeast reports, the spider in question appears to be a huntsman, which is also noted by someone in the video.
Huntsman spiders are not aggressive and are minimally toxic to humans, according to a site run by the Fumapest Control Group, but they are, however, maximally terrifying.
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Kingofalldems
(38,469 posts)Kenjie
(122 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)R&K
Cirque du So-What
(25,965 posts)Wonder what variety of vermin attracted the spider in the first place?
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,322 posts)Floridanow
(74 posts)1. He won't eat much.
2. Spiders aren't disease vectors