Another bad day in Orlando
- Thread starter Southern Fried
- Start date
Tazz
Infidel
Different side of the state.
Not lately. There have been issues in the Myakka and Indian River basins from Pythons, and Rattlers. Or the coverage last time I was down there kept saying.
Cargo Commando
Well-Known Member
The spiders scare me more than anything. Nothing worse than having a spider as big as your hand right smack in your face as your walking thru the woods. Palmetto bugs suck too. Flying **** roaches? Are you serious?
Southern Fried
Well-Known Member
Probably less than you think. It's like people and gasoline.... familiarity breeds contempt.
I live 20ft or so from a bayou. Early one morning I came home, still dark with a little breeze from the previous day's bad storms. Just outside was this long black thing that was moving around just a little bit. Turned out it was just some black plastic sheeting that had blown from somewhere but it definitely looked "gatorish" at the time.
You do know that all cockroaches fly?
Tazz
Infidel
I took a part time job after I got back installing cable. We had to make leads so I would do it while sitting at home at night. I would bring in this big spool of wire and a big garbage can and just start crimping ends onto 2', 3', 4' wires to have them ready when installing.
First this big damn roach crawls up out of the middle of the spool. So I start looking for a boot to crush the thing. It must have sensed the pending attackand flew straight at me with that f'ing sound they make "SCREEEEEEEEEEEEE".
My Dad came out on the porch rifle in hand expecting a raiding party or something. I was just trying to kill the fracking thing and all I could find was my side arm
Pretty sure I winged the bastard as he scurried into the palmetto bushes.
Started keeping a torch next to me while making leads. Oh and when I returned the wire spool the supply guy asked "Why does this thing smell like Raid?"
Dunno
Maybe it got wet or something
First this big damn roach crawls up out of the middle of the spool. So I start looking for a boot to crush the thing. It must have sensed the pending attackand flew straight at me with that f'ing sound they make "SCREEEEEEEEEEEEE".
My Dad came out on the porch rifle in hand expecting a raiding party or something. I was just trying to kill the fracking thing and all I could find was my side arm
Pretty sure I winged the bastard as he scurried into the palmetto bushes.
Started keeping a torch next to me while making leads. Oh and when I returned the wire spool the supply guy asked "Why does this thing smell like Raid?"
Dunno
Maybe it got wet or something
Tazz
Infidel
Yeah but when they are 4 inches long it ups theYou do know that all cockroaches fly?
factor.
Cargo Commando
Well-Known Member
Mebbe, but I remember in my youth seeing a woman in a shopping center running and screaming as a Palmetto bug entrenched itself in her new 'do. **** Palmetto bugs...
ironpony
Professional Pot-Stirrer
Yeah but when they are 4 inches long it ups the
Baht bugs fellas... imported from Thailand on returning Air Force jets. Yep, them would be your giant flying cucarachas - Asian rice bugs.
Look'a here: This guy isn't even on the same continent and he knows there are big, meat-eating lizards in Florida.
(answering a comment about real estate speculation in Florida)
(answering a comment about real estate speculation in Florida)
ironpony
Professional Pot-Stirrer
Reruns of the Crocodile Hunter...
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