Camels are cool. Camel spiders, not so much....

Before I deployed, I had heard about camel spiders.  I had seen pictures on the internet of them, but had never seen one in person.  Just looking at the pictures, gives me the creeps.  Today I came face to face with one.  Since then, I keep thinking I have spiders crawling on me.  I hate spiders!  If there is one in a room with me, my rule is that one of us has to go.

Apparently these things are harmless and the myths that you read about them on the internet are just that.  I still don't want one biting me, as I generally don't enjoy anything biting me, even if it doesn't have poisonous venom accompanying the bite.  Below is a picture, as I like to provide a full service blog for my readers.  Sorry in advance if this blog makes you think you have spiders crawling on you for the rest of day.

This one wasn't that big for a camel spider, but was still pretty big for a spider.  Apparently they can get to be up to the size of a frisbee.  I was too scared to kill this one, and nobody else would do it, so it got away.  Hopefully, he doesn't come back to scare me to death when he reaches the size of a frisbee.  I'm afraid that I will have no other option at that point but to shoot it with my M-16....

The only good spider is a dead one