Saturday, March 13, 2010

Officially The Biggest Spider Ever

I have seen more than my fair share of big spiders in Southeast Asia. However, this spider officially takes the cake. I was walking down the stairwell in my apartment building when this thing caught my eye. It was huge! The section of the wall that this spider was on is about a foot long; the spider was taking up half of it. On top of that, it's legs were very very very thick. I would say that they were about the width of my pinkies...and if you've ever seen my hands, I've got fat fingers.

I started to irrationally fear for my life and quickly grabbed the nearest Vietnamese person I could find -- a man working downstairs in my building. I showed him the spider and he barely flinched. He methodically grabbed a stick and a broom and went after the thing. This is when I took out my video camera and started to film from about twenty feet away (this is why the spider doesn't look monstrous in the video). Standing behind me was the Vietnamese man's son who happened to be at the building that day. Well, the man climbed up on a stool and went after the spider. By "went after" I mean he pushed it off the wall and on to the floor where it quickly stampeded towards me and the little boy. As you can tell from the video, I was petrified. The boy and I ran down the stairs so fast it was as if a tiger was chasing us. Check out this video:

7 comments:

mom said...

Good thing your sister wasn't there!

Hannah said...

I think the one that Ryan killed was bigger.

Ryan said...

You've had the same job twice.

http://ahoyhanoi.blogspot.com/2008/06/cockroaches-rats-and-spiders-oh-my.html

sam said...

this is why I haven't visited you yet.

Benjamin said...

The one Ryan killed was probably half the size and thickness. When I filmed that one I got up close to it (not nearly as close as Ryan though). This one I stayed really far away from.

**Maria ** said...

I'm with you, Ben. That thing was huge. The fact that it was large enough for me to see when you were obviously far away tells me that thing was gigantic. YUCK! Your nervous laughter had me rolling, though! ha ha ha ha! I would have screamed. :)

Duy said...

that was really huge, Ben... I hate spider >"<