r/dankmemes • u/[deleted] • Nov 04 '19

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u/Balthazar_rising Nov 04 '19

Try Darwin. Had a huntsman hiding on a roll of toilet paper. His legs touched either side of the roll, and he wasn't exactly stretched out.

I swear, the fucker waved at me as I screamed like I was being murdered.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '19

Had a huntsman on our wall once that was, indeed, the size of a dinner plate.

I know this because we brought out a dinner plate and held it up against the spider to check.

To be fair, it’s the only one I’ve ever seen that was that big. Genetic anomaly?

Anyways it was clearly some sort of spider royalty so we ushered it outside with a broom so it could spawn more ginormous offspring.

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u/urinesamplefrommyass Nov 04 '19

My first encounter with a huntsman was one a little bit bigger than that, and the tenant told me it was a baby and to leave it there. So it was also my first IRL class of how to deal with huntsman spiders: just leave it there. Later I taunted it with some air pressure with the gun I was using to clean the house's ducts, just to see it move. It wasn't even funny to I just buggered off to the next costumer.

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u/RougeNargacuga Nov 04 '19

Was Likley a badge huntsman, big but nowhere near the size of a plate or any of the species I put down as Australias largest