THE_LEGENDARY_HQB

Greetings to all,

I laughed heartily at all the people who have arachnophobia.
Attention, people!

There's a lot worse out there than spiders!

2 examples.

GIANT LAND CRABS.
I saw these monstrosities in Negril, Jamaica. Locals catch them and put them into curry pots, while still alive.
They look like fiddler crabs that have been exposed to too much radiation. They are huge, and they live in burrows in the forrest.

They eat anything from plant matter, to lizards, rats and birds.

They can climb coconut trees and knock down the coconuts.
Their claws can break a mans hand.

GIANT CENTIPEDES.
These horrors are about 6-8 inches long, and they live in warm climates all over the world. Their bite can paralyze your arm for hours, and they just love to nest in old shoes. Anyone else here have to deal with them? The fuckers can actually take down lizards and mice!

I'd rather have a tarantula the size of a dinner plate than a giant centipede sinking its fangs into my feet.

What is your choice for nastiest animal, denizens of IIDB?
Respect,
HQB

Corona688

Nice. In most cases it's not a rational fear, you know. Not their fault.


And the animal I most loathe? Mosquito.

Hastur

Bot flies.

Invader Tak

This will make me unpopular, but I don't like monkeys.

Creepy little hairy people with bad manners, and a lot of DNA shared with me.

<shudder>

Utnapishtim

Agreed on the Bot Flies. In my mind there is nothing more horrific than something living and growing under your skin, and then tearing itself out after it matures. Uggh!

The stone fish also bugs me. Basically it sits on rocks and reefs and blends in so well that you can't see it. Then if you step on it, you die! Isn't that nice?

dublczek

Humans. They have a tendency to mimic us. It's hard to tell real ones from fake ones. They can get real nasty too if you get on the wrong side of their beliefs.

Did you mean 'my choice of nastiest animal' or an animal I just particularly detest? I hate wombats. They hang out at programmers' forums and crack way too many jokes.

lisarea

I don't like house badgers.

Like you know how when you get up in the middle of the night, and you're walking around in the dark and BLAMMO! some fucking house badger comes out of nowhere and slashes your Achilles tendon? I've avoided this so far by just walking really fast and moving unpredictably, but I'm pretty sure I've almost been crippled by house badgers any number of times.

Also, restaurant badgers. They are howcome I won't sit on the outside part of a restaurant booth if I am not wearing long pants and closed footwear.

Other bad animals are mosquitos and moths and FLIES and cats.

And my brother almost got a religious conversion from seeing a demon once, but it turned out to be a wolverine. I think I would pretty much hate wolverines.

Daisy

Ticks. Nasty bloodsuckers spit vile germs into you. It hurts, too.
***shudder***

missus_gumby

The candiru. I will say no more.

Martin

Abacus

I looked it up.

There surely is no God.