What would you do?

[True Dough]

Link to tweet

[LakeArenal]

1. Take a picture and post it.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I would discover just how fast I could still move.

Then I'd have to call someone who would be willing to come kill it for me. Spiders absolutely undo me.

[Solly Mack]

3. Dental care is very important. Commendable.

I'd offer him up a snack.

[Ohiogal]

4. Scream!

[TomSlick]

5. Find a broom.

[Different Drummer]

6. This tweet pretty much covers what I would do.

Link to tweet

[True Dough]

7. Don't let the spiders prevail!

We must fight in the streets (and in the barns and in the sheds and in the basements).

[Iggo]

8. Put up my dukes.

[True Dough]

9. Brave, but you might find yourself in this predicament...

[Iggo]

10. Thought about that.

Thanks for the visual...lol.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. Find a flyswatter, slide it under it and

take it outside where it belongs.

And you can't tell me that audio came from that spider.

[csziggy]

12. Try to swing a sledgehammer at it

If I could pick one up. Right now I am restricted to picking up 16 ounces, but my 16 ounce hammer does not have a long enough handle or big enough head to get that mother fucker!

Next step would be to move out until a critter killer team could clear the house!

If spiders make noises like that, I want to move to a different planet.

[defacto7]

13. Offer it a banana peel, get a box and cover it.

Then get a small cage and have it checked out by a vet who deals with arachnids. Looks like a male tarantula. They can live 10 years. The females live up to 25 years.

[defacto7]

14. I love this one...

Spiders-could-theoretically-eat-every-human-on-earth-in-one-yearry human being on earth in a year

[ProudLib72]

15. This could make you feel better (or worse)

Myth: You're always within three feet of a spider

Fact: We actually know the history of this one. A 1995 popular article by famous arachnologist Norman Platnick begins, "Wherever you sit as you read these lines, a spider is probably no more than a few yards away." I'd call that debatable even as is, but of course none of the many who repeated it got it right. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, reviewing a local exhibit in September 1996, wrote "Scientists estimate we're never more than three feet from a spider. That's because some are microscopic, and actually live RIGHT ON YOU." The capitals are theirs, not mine, and they're mistaking dust mites for spiders here.

Then the nature writers got into the act. From a 1999 Sierra Club book on spiders: "Wherever you are, there is a spider within a meter of you." From a 2001 book on nature in the city: "Even in Manhattan, you are never more than three feet from a spider." And Norm Platnick (under pressure, I admit) misquoted his own earlier statement in a May 2002 CNN interview: "You're probably within seven or eight feet of a spider, no matter where you are."

https://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/myth-youre-always-within-three-feet-spider

I don't want to post too much (there are only a couple more paragraphs). Suffice it to say that it all depends on where you are standing at the time. But you have to go to extremes to get away from the spiders.