| Author | Message | ||
     Jwz7 |
i don't know if this ever happened to anyone else,but let me tell ya,it scared the crap out of me!!i was riding home from a friends today on the freeway and i was cruz'in along pretty good mind'in my own business when all of the sudden and (think about the jaws music right now just before the shark would attack,it'll make for good affect)i see something moving out of the corner of my eye and then disappear and i'm like what the hell was that!!!and i start thinking holy •••• it's a spider and knowing my luck a deadly one like a brown recluse or wolf spider.i'm think'in great this thing is going to attack me and it's gonna take me out!!mind you all this stuff is going though my mind in a matter of seconds as i'm frantically trying to pull of the freeway.when i did i never got my gloves and helmet of so quick!!well,to my surprise i could'nt find him.okay,maybe he fell out when i took my helmet off,no big deal right-wrong.i put everything back on and things are cool until i was pulling into my driveway when right before my eyes the little ••••••• came crawling down the inside of my shield!!almost wrecked as i flipped up my shield and started swatting myself in the face trying to kill this thing.i tore my helmet off took all my lining of and still can't find the killer spider from hell.i think he's hiding in one of my vents.so,this is a warning to all- watch were you put your helmet and always check it real good before putting it on!!now i have to figure out how to flush him out of my vents so i can get revenge on the little •••••••!! | ||
| Wyckedflesh |
compressed air... I have had similar instances happen. If you stay calm its easier to deal with him and your less likely to get bitten. | ||
| BadS1 |
Air compressor!!! | ||
| M1combat |
Soak it in fuel and LIGHT it! | ||
| Ted |
check your ear ? Anyone who's used an open-face helmet can probably relate getting a bee or some bug in the helmet at a inopportune time! | ||
| Jeremyh |
SOAK IT IN WATER AND LET IT DRY NATURALLY AFTERWARDS. | ||
| Daves |
Got a can of Raid? Dave | ||
| Bomber |
must be the time of year -- I had a very simmilar experience yesterday on the way home from work . . . got the lil sucker though! check yer boots, gloves and like that, as well | ||
| BadS1 |
Reduce your chances of it happening and don't store your riding gear in the garage. | ||
| Black_sunshine |
I had a Yellow Jacket fly around my helmet and under the back between my neck and the helmet. Stung the shiznit out of me. I was right in the middle of a tight left hander in the mountains. My sheild was down too. I almost wrecked trying to get him out. I know the feeling jwz7. | ||
| Reepicheep |
I can remember concentrating on being calm as I changed from the center lane to the far right lane, and finally to a safe turn off, while a bee was busily stinging his way up my right arm and shoulder. The •••••••. It was my first motorcycle adventure. I calmly changed lanes, calmly parked the bike on the side stand, calmly pulled the jacket off, and proceeded to frantically kick the living *%@# out of that particular insect. He won the battle, but lost the war. | ||
| Ocbueller |
The brown recluse nailed a few of my aquaintances this summer. It's a pretty severe bite that can get infected if not cared for. SteveH | ||
| Black_sunshine |
I am a Prosthetist and make artifical limbs for a living. I had this patient once that lost his leg below the knee because of a Brown Recluse. He was diabetic and the wound never healed resulting in amputation. It a severe case and rare but those spiders can inflict some damage. Like BadS1 said, best thing is to keep your helmet and gear in the house away from that dark cool deadly insect breeding ground we call a garage! | ||
| Swampy |
I had a bee fly under the chin fairing and into the face shield area on the way home from Copper Harbor. It was a way too cool bee, all I did was open the shield and it sucked out. This happened along a pretty beach streach of highway east of Escanaba. I am now horribly dissapointed with this thread......I thought there would be a picture of Spidey in his helmet! (Message edited by swampy on September 01, 2004) | ||
| Spiderman |
I was drag racing all day I swear!!! BTW like stated earlier, be calm and no harm will come to you. Spiders only bite when they feel threatened like being swated at. A little FYI You are no more than 4 feet from a spider at anytime. And they actually have video of spiders exploring peoples faces at night. Sweet dreams BWAHAHAHAHA | ||
| Kelly |
I got bitten by a brown recluse back in '99 and let it go long enough to need minor surgery and massive amounts of meds (16 big ••• pills a day) to kill the staph infection that had gotten into my blood stream. They said I could have died from the inside out from that one... | ||
| Newfie_buell |
We don't have deadly spiders!!!!! But got some big arse moose!!!!! | ||
| Blake |
Frigid cold... nasty spiders and snakes... frigid cold... nasty spiders and snakes...  Brown Recluse On Living Room Wall Nasty little arachnid. Pretty harmless if not molested. I've picked them up and tossed them outside a number of times before learning what they were. Now I squash 'em. Have seen more Black Widows. Had a nest behind the mailbox once that hatched out in hundreds of the little buggers. The mailman never noticed. Be careful out there. Blake (going to check and vacuum his helmet) | ||
| Newfie_buell |
I'll put up with the frigid cold for 6mths of the year!!! | ||
| Blake |
Been there, done that. Not likely to ever go back to it. Great place to visit during the Summer though.  | ||
| Wyckedflesh |
The only spider that will ACTIVELY try and bite you is the Hawaiian Cane Spider. I have seen those suckers launch from the wall at me. Talk about wycked moving DAMN FARKING QUICK! I will take a Brown Recluse any day over a Cane spider. | ||
| Jwz7 |
thanks everyone for your response's.i'll take everyone's advice except for lighting my helmet on fire-it was too expensive  | ||
| Raraf |
Are you sure you wouldn't reconsider fire? Brown Recluse Aftermath:       | ||
| Blake |
Some laymen's hearsay advice... If you live in Brown Recluse territory, get yourself one of those venom extractor vacuum pump devices. As soon as you notice a bite, outline the reddish area around it with an indelible pen. Then apply the vacuum and let it suck out the poison. Don't freak out if the skin directly over the bite ruptures spewing forth a copious amount of blood, puss and goo into the extractor. Getting rid of that envenomated goo is a very good thing. Leave the vacuum applied for at least ten minutes or so, this will be a bit painful. Don't be a wuss! It will suck out most of the venom. Then wash and disinfect any resulting wound. If the affected bite area fails to diminish (note the inked perimeter for reference) or turns black in the center or begins to become inflamed, then see a doctor IMMEDIATELY and DEMAND to have a nitroglycerin patch prescribed for the inflamed area. The nitroglycerin patch causes localized blood vessels to expand thus counteracting the venom's constricting effect and allowing the circulatory system to do its job in transporting, diluting and removing the venom from the local bite area and from your body in general. The nitroglycerin treatment is not well know to all doctors, but from what I've read, it works and works extremely well. You will probably also be put on an antibiotic to help fight possible infection. From what I have learned, Brown recluse venom is an incredibly powerful/concentrated necrotizing agent that also causes capillaries and small blood vessels to contract thus preventing blood flow that would otherwise carry off the venom and disperse/transport it away from the local area. Thus the aggressive blood vessel dialating/expanding effect of nitroglycerin applied locally in concentrated form is reportedly a very effective treatment. There is no lack on the internet of grotesque photos like those posted above. However such severe symptoms are a rarity in real life, at least according to my wife's doctor. I personally know of two people who were envenomated by Brown Recluse. One got treatment right away and suffered no serious symptoms; the other waited until the wound was serious and has the scar on her leg to show for it. If you are unsure about the source of a possible bite (an actual Brown Recluse bite is not very painful, more of a slight pinprick sensation easily dismissed initially by the victim as nothing warranting special attention), get the bite illuminated under a bright light and carefully inspect the bite with a magnifying glass. A recluse or any spider bite will leave two tiny fang puncture marks, very tiny little red dots spaced only the slightest distance apart. If you can see two such tiny closely spaced fang puncture marks, you have probably been bitten by a spider. The safe thing is to assume, absent significant pain, that it is a Brown Recluse bite and treat it as such. I can imagine the spider that bit the guy's thumb above looking at the photo and thinking, "Man! I coulda fed on that dude for a lifetime. Yumm!" | ||
| Uwgriz |
1st picture - I'll keep the helmet 2nd picture - I'll keep the helmet 3rd picture - What if I just hold the helmet over a fire? 4th picture - Light em up 5th and 6th picture - I'll buy each of the little pricks a helmet of their very own to just leav me the hell alone | ||
| Newfie_buell |
I think I'll live with the cold, Hmmmmm We have NO Snakes, Skunks, Raccoons, Venemous Spiders or other Insects. I know how to avoid Moose so I will live in peace. | ||
| Rick_a |
That's hilarious. I've had a bee fly into my helmet as it was cracked open...totally sucked...I calmly waited 'till I was up to speed and opened the shield with my head to the side. Sucked that ••••••• right out. I'm alergic...I was sweatin' that. I broke down once and found a brown recluse in my wiring. It hid in the space inside the rockers above the cylinder head. I never did see it get out of there. | ||
| Philip |
blake, what is the scale of that spider? are we talking dime size, nickel? i'm sure i've been close to one but really have not noticed. thanks. | ||
| Blake |
That one was between a half dollar and silver dollar size as are most I run across. I caught a young one the other day, about nickel size. Their legs are very skeletal, resembling crab legs if you know what I mean. If you look real closely and carefully you can see a fiddle shaped marking on their backs, thus their nickname, "Fiddle-Back". The one in my photo above is a might underfed. Usually the abdomen is the normal fuller shape. If they decide to run for it, which they often do, they can move surprisingly quickly. I have yet to see one stand and adopt a threatening posture. People get bitten when they roll over onto one while sleeping or when they accidentally trap one in a glove or shoe or even put on an old coat that has been hanging or lying around for a long time. Newf, The Moose are far more dangerous. Of course we have gators too. Worst thing I have encountered down here in Texas are the damn chiggers. If you don't know what chiggers are, consider yourself blessed and lucky among men. Truly the spawn of hell. Some of the worst physical torment in my life was wrought by chiggers. This from a man who spent a week in the hospital with 7 broken ribs, a shattered clavicle, and a punctured lung with a stubborn pneumothorax. | ||
| Raraf |
I have seven brothers and when one of us got chiggers in Oklahoma WE ALL GOT CHIGGERS! The doctor gave us one bottle of the friggin lotion that kills the lil b@st@rds! Let the bloodshed begin! By the time it got to the youngest they were rubbing shards of the broken bottle on their skin. Sad. (Message edited by raraf on September 04, 2004) |
