A true story and its source was the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service in Adelaide.
A bloke and his family were on holidays in the United States and went to Mexico for a week. An avid cactus fan, the man bought one-metre high, rare and expensive cactus there. On arrival back home Australian Customs said it must be quarantined for 3 months.
He finally got his cactus home. Planted it in his backyard, and over time it grew to about 2 metres. One evening while watering his garden after a warm spring day, he gave the cactus a light spray. He was amazed to see the plant shiver all over,
He was puzzled so he rang the council who put him on to the state gardens people. and asked him ?"What the hell's going on?" he says. "Let me show you" says the cactus man. He went over to the cactus and picked away a crusty bit, the cactus was almost entirely hollow and filled with tiger striped bird-eating tarantula spiders, each about the size of two hand spans.
2006-09-13 08:34:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The story was that this type of spider lays eggs in this type of cactus and they hatch and live in it as they grow to full size. When full size they release themselves. The cactus just explodes and about 150 dinner plate sized hairy spiders are flung from it, dispersing everywhere. They had been ready to pop. The aftermath was that the house and the adjoining houses had to be vacated and fumigated: police tape was put up outside the whole area and no one was allowed in for two weeks.
2006-09-13 08:35:57 · update #1
an urban legand is it someone sent it to me i thought it was true
2006-09-13 09:11:14 · update #2
well ime glad its not true wonder who started that story of
2006-09-13 09:26:07 · update #3
That's a urban legend. Here's link to prove it:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/cactus.asp
Also there's no such tarantula of that kind. Nearest would be Goliath bird eating tarantula and that thing couldn't survive in a desert. So why would it live in a cactus if cactus doesn't grow in jungle.
2006-09-13 09:08:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
exciting for a short horror tale... in spite of the undeniable fact that i do no longer possibly believe you. If the story became into real there're some undermining information that don't comply: a million.) Why are you going out at night into the woods in any case, you're 13 you will desire to be fearful of the dark. 2.) Your cousins lave lived interior the woods for see you later and that they by no ability observed this cabin earlier. good explanation which you are able to be understanding at being lost, yet maximum unlikely that they had in simple terms see this cabin for the 1st time and noone lives there. 3.) you're lost interior the woods and you reside at the back of as your cousins bypass forward... i do no longer care who you're, in case you're lost you are going to stay with with human beings and not wander too a techniques. 4.) This mutant demon in simple terms happens to make an visual attraction while your twin cousins are faraway from you. howdy, why no longer? i can stay with that. 5,) however the area that particularly gave you away became into the hunt team! seek communities at the instant are not initiated till a guy or woman has long gone lacking for over 24 hours.
2016-12-12 07:50:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's is just awful! Another reason not to like cactus.
2006-09-13 08:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoa, that's crazy! Thanks for the interesting story...
2006-09-13 08:42:35 · answer #4 · answered by mutterhals 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WTF!!! that settles it, I don't like cactuses anymore!
2006-09-13 08:41:09 · answer #5 · answered by bregweidd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋