Giving my pet spider a ride...

[asaratis]

For the last few days (five, I think) I've had a spider web and spider riding in the bed of my cowboy Cadillac. The web is attached to the tip of a radio antenna, the top of the bed box and the bottom of the rear window.

The spider has been 80 mph on the freeway, been through several drive-thru lines, sat in the sun one day and the shade the next...hasn't complained a bit.

The web has survived (except when it is eaten by the spider) rain and 80 mph winds without any apparent damage.

How much should I charge the spider for transportation? Should I let it ride for free or just thump its ass off in the middle of a big parking lot?

I wonder if it will live there through Halloween? It has already freaked out two people at the QT.

 

[Mr. H.]

Get someone to drive next to you on the freeway and take some video. Do a mini-documentary, put it on Youtube, and before you know it the two of you will be doing the Letterman show (if it's a female spider be sure to keep an eye on that horny Dave). You should be paying that spider for all the noteriety it'll get ya.

 

[asaratis]

Get someone to drive next to you on the freeway and take some video. Do a mini-documentary, put it on Youtube, and before you know it the two of you will be doing the Letterman show (if it's a female spider be sure to keep an eye on that horny Dave). You should be paying that spider for all the noteriety it'll get ya.

That might work if I could get the little nipper to stay center web when the truck moves. I get over ten miles an hour and it crawls down to the base of the antenna where the wind is calm. The web flaps like a boat flag at 30 knots, but the spider is crouched in a ball near the window.

 

[Big Black Dog]

One small shot of Raid should take care of the "freeloader"... Don't believe I've ever seen anything quite like this before.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

You have to admire the spider. Don't Kill it!

 

[strollingbones]

nice pics leave the spider alone

 

[Luissa]

burning your truck is the only option I see.
and where do you live because I never want to go there if they have spiders that look like that.

 

[Mr. H.]

Is the spider documented? You could be harboring an illegal here.