NEW POISONOUS SPIDER IN THE UNITED STATES!

A spider bite...please read...........
And you thought the brown recluse was bad!!!
Three women in North Florida , turned up at hospitals over a 5-day
period, all with the same symptoms. Fever, chills, and vomiting,
followed by muscular collapse, paralysis, and finally, death.
There were no outward signs of trauma.
Autopsy results showed toxicity in the blood. These women did not know
each other, and seemed to have nothing in common.
It was discovered, however, that they had all visited the same
Restaurant Olive Garden) within days of their deaths. The health
department descended on the restaurant, shutting it down. The food,
water, and air conditioning were all inspected and tested, to no avail.
The big break came when a waitress at the restaurant was rushed to the
hospital with similar symptoms. She told doctors that she had been on
vacation, and had only went to the restaurant to pick up her check.
She did not eat or drink while she was there, but had used the restroom.

That is when one toxicologist, remembering an article he had read, drove
out to the restaurant, went into the restroom, and lifted the toilet
seat. Under the seat, out of normal view, was a small spider.
The spider was captured and brought back to the lab, where it was
determined to be the Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata), so
named because of its reddened flesh color. This spider's venom is
extremely toxic, but can take several days to take effect. They live in
cold, dark, damp climates, and toilet rims provide just the right
atmosphere.
Several days later a lawyer from Jacksonville showed up at a hospital
emergency room. Before his death, he told the doctor, that he had been
away on business, had taken a flight from Indonesia , changing planes in
Singapore , before returning home. He did not visit (Olive Garden),
while there. He did, as did all of the other victims, have what was
determined to be a puncture wound, on his right buttock.
Investigators discovered that the flight he was on had originated in
India. The Civilian Aeronautics Board (CAB) ordered an immediate
inspection of the toilets of all flights from India , and discovered the
Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata) spider's nests on 4
different planes!
It is now believed that these spiders can be anywhere in the country.
So please, before you use a public toilet, lift the seat to check for
spiders. It can save your life!
And please pass this on to everyone you care about.

That is crazy. good lookin out!

makes me glad I lift one leg to piss.....M.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/telamonia.asp

LMAO thats funny ;)

See I Have been telling women for year's that they better pay close
attention to where they park their BUTT'S at?
But when I told that to my MOM, (who's 84 and still jitter-bugs and
witty,LOL) She replied I ALWAYS PUT MY BUTTS IN AN ASHTRAY? LOL. See,
still witty, she got ME on that one? LOL
DO YOU THINK THAT AIRPORT TERMINAL'S NOW MIGHT START HAVING
ALL PASSENGER'S STRIP AND GET HOSED DOWN WHEN COMING BACK TO U.S. FROM
OTHER COUNTRIES? LOL I MIGHT HAVE TO START HANGING OUT BY THE WATER
HOSE, THAT WOULD BE GREAT PIC'S.LOL


GOOD ARTICLE AND I ALWAYS HAVE TO COVER OR CLEAN ANY TOILET SEAT THAT I
PUT MY ASS ON BUT NOW<<<<<I WILL MAKE SURE TO LIFT AND LOOK AROUND? My
LUCK I'll lift it and the damm spider will bite my finger then?? LOL

Thank You For The Imformation
trying_to_fly

I found this on the same site..

This one has a few things wrong with it: There is no such thing as the
Journal of the United Medical Association, nor is it likely that any
such article on this subject by "Dr. Beverly Clark" ever appeared in any
medical journal. Additionally, the Civil Aeronautics Board disbanded in
1984! There have been no reliable and valid accounts of such mysterious
injuries or deaths at Olive Garden or any other restaurant.

This urban legend has taken many forms over the years. As it circulates,
more detail is removed or replaced to make it seem more believable and
less like the joke it was probably intended to be. This latest version
is stripped of many of the "facts" that made earlier versions easy to
research and debunk. The earliest Internet version (1999) I found links
the mysterious deaths to "Big Chappies" restaurant in "Blare" airport in
Chicago (presumably an abberation of "O'Hare") and identifies the spider
as the hilariously named "South American Blush Spider" or "arachnius
gluteus."

Omission of the fictitious airport and replacement of the equally fake
spider with a real one (Two-Striped Telamonia) in this version, combined
with a heady case of "False Attribution Syndrome" have given this old
hoax new life.

This is not a notice from the University of North Florida. The school
became unwillingly affiliated with this hoax when one of its employees
(presumably "Officer Sylvia Steele," though her title seems incongruous
with a position within the Science Department) received and forwarded
it, inadvertently adding her signature and credibility to the message.
Since it would seem that someone representing a university science
department would know things like this, it makes sense to assume they
are the source of it. Somewhere along the way (either coincidentally or
intentionally) references to Chicago were replaced with "North Florida"
to help the tale make more sense.

"False Attribution Syndrome," as we at BreakTheChain.org like to call
this phenomenon, creates a lot of headache for employers and is why most
prohibit their employees from using their business e-mail accounts for
personal correspondence. Many employees have been reprimanded or
terminated after becoming associated with a chain letter. This is just
one of the very real dangers anyone faces when they forward a warning
like this one without checking it out first. Break this chain!

At least check things out on Snopes.com before posting them....instead
of perpetuating rumors and silly tales.

See ...I knew I was right....See girls you should lift the lid.....not
us lol!!!

Right Poet, but it is Halloween!!
LOL