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 Sparta
    
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Spiders and manholes
< on 7/24/2004 12:00 PM >
|  | | | I'm just curious what everyone does after they pop open a manhole only to find the top and the ladder swarmed with cobwebs and pretty big spiders? Me being such afraid of spiders, I usually just turn back around. Is there anything you can bring with you to clean up or kill the mess the spiders made, like bug spray or anything? What do you do in a situation like this?
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: Spiders and manholes
<Reply # 1 on 7/24/2004 2:43 PM >
| | | | You can swirl a big maglite around in there to gather them up like cotton candy, for one thing. Aside from that, just grit your teeth and climb down. The majority of spiders (at least where I'm from) can't do anything to you.
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junkyard
Location: LaCrosse, WI
Gender: Male
Strategic Beer Command where the metal hits the meat.
| |  | Re: Spiders and manholes
<Reply # 2 on 7/24/2004 3:20 PM >
| | | | That brings up another potential hazzard, bees. Nothing worse than walking into a building and having a bee hive right above your head. But there is a cure for those pesky stinging varmints. Brakleen. Spray a bit of that on them and they drop in about 2 secconds. It works great at about 5 feet, but wastes alot at anything more than that. Only works on bees and no other bugs I've tried. Ten times better than Raid. As far as spiders, Mac's right, even a special bug stick made out of a tree branch works just as good as it does for stirring the skeeters out of the pit toilet when camping.
I drink gasoline for breakfeast and beer for dinner!
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Frozen
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Three-D
| | | Re: Spiders and manholes
<Reply # 3 on 7/29/2004 5:24 AM >
| | | | Posted by Sparta
I'm just curious what everyone does after they pop open a manhole only to find the top and the ladder swarmed with cobwebs and pretty big spiders? Me being such afraid of spiders, I usually just turn back around. Is there anything you can bring with you to clean up or kill the mess the spiders made, like bug spray or anything? What do you do in a situation like this?
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If I pop it from above and find spiders I feel lucky! Usually I'm popping it from below while said spiders crawl on my face. But yeah, MN has incredibly tame insects. Nothing here can hurt you which is pretty nice.
If the spiders are mean it seems to me that the cotton candy method + clothes and/or gloves would be enough. Well, maybe focus on the "and" part of my previous sentence. Just gloves could get a little funky.
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Farrix
Location: Alberta
Gender: Male
| | Re: Spiders and manholes
<Reply # 4 on 7/30/2004 3:06 PM >
| | | | Dangerous and stupid methods i can think of tend to involve a propane torch, touch a spider with a blue flame they dont tend to twitch after, reasons this is dangerous and stupid is cause if you just popped a manhole possibly full of stagnant/explosive gas you are taking the VERY easy way to clean spiders out, KABOOM!!! =D lol but im crazy, and im out, ciao guys
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Plytheman
Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts
Obey The Deer
| | | Re: Spiders and manholes
<Reply # 5 on 7/30/2004 10:43 PM >
| | | | Just pour water down the hole...
No bugs around here that are dangerous, aside from the possibility of ticks and mosquitos carrying diseases...
Try not to kill Honey bees and bumble bees. They're pretty good about not attacking you, as long as you respect their hive. Plus, honey bees are nerely endangered, I think... at least theres not too many around now a days. Wasps, Hornets, and yellow jackets, on the other hand, have nasty attitudes...
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Spiders and manholes
<Reply # 6 on 7/31/2004 3:17 AM >
| | | | I generally like spiders, since they eat annoying bugs and add atmosphere to abandoned buildings. I was a little nervous about the huge mass of spiders inside a manhole shaft in MN, but Krazy told me there arent' any poisonous ones there. I'd be more worried about places like Australia where there are a couple really poisonous ones that hang out in drains.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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parapsycho
| | Re: Spiders and manholes
<Reply # 7 on 7/31/2004 6:20 AM >
| | | | Well, here in texas we have black widows and recluses.
Now, those are poionous, but rarely deadly. Even so, I wouldnt want to be bitten by one. Widows make you sick, and recluses can cause necrosis (where your skin rots). We also have large variants like wolf spiders and "banana spiders", which can be pretty scary. Im not scared of spiders per-se, only when they are crawling on me....  I need to get over that.
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Chris
Location: Australia
Gender: Male
OMGWTFROFL
| | Re: Spiders and manholes
<Reply # 8 on 8/1/2004 1:45 AM >
| | | | yeah, come to think about it, i should be more careful about spiders here in aus, i havent ever been bitten but we apparently have a large list of really really annoying spiders. like red-backs, white tails, funnel-webs' etc etc. the only time i was freaked out was when a super massive (but harmless) garden spider appeared about 10 cm (3 inches) from my face after i turned around.
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