Real Life Monsters???

The Camel Spider

Feb 05, 2006

This is pretty sick man!
This was an email going round when we went to Iraq with the Yanks.
Aparently, the photo on the right was taken by Yanks and emailed home with the following text:
This picture is a perfect example of why you don't want to go to the desert. These are 2 of the biggest I've ever seen. With a vertical leap that would make a pro basketball player weep with envy (they have to be able to jump up on to a camels stomach after all), they latch on and inject you with a local anesthesia so you can't feel it feeding on you. They eat flesh, not just suck out your juices like a normal spider. I'm gona be having night mares after seeing this photo!

Apparently these things, are massive, they eat meat and they hate the sun.
So what they do is they hide under camels to keep out of the sun and when they get hungry the JUMP up and flip over and catch onto the camel's gutt and take a bite! When they bite they inject their prey with a local anesthetic so the camels don't realise that they're getting eaten alive. Apparently they can jump upto headhight!
Additionally when a camel spider finds itself out of the shade, it has to run to get out of the shade. Apparently they can run upto 25mhp, and while they run there is a screaming sound, apparently caused by their legs rubbing together at high speed!
So if a camel spider was hiding in the shade near your backpack and you pick it up and walk away... it would chase you, trying to get into your shadow, al the time screaming!
That's pretty cool!

So the Yanks were waking up to these things knawing on their legs, apparently!!!

Go here and here for the real story!!!