Posted: 2/6/2005 6:08:40 PM EDT
this is a small one ive killed them 11 inches long . second pic shows pinchers sorry its so blurry .  688 |
They were COOL.
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Not only are they ugly, they make a damned Abrams look like a Toyota. Those things do NOT die. Their also incredibly fast on the bite. You'll find them in your shoes if your unlucky enough, and if Fate really dislikes you you wont know till hes tagged your foot. And you wont get your foot out until hes chomped on it more then once. Nasty little fuggers. |
Same here! Absolutly NASTY! On a side note, I once attended a strange "Exotic Animal Baazaar" on a road trip somewhere in Illinois. Quite a few of the vendors had things such as those for purchase. HUGE hand sized stink bugs, Centipedes as long as your arm and Centipedes that were the size of a large doughnut when curled in a ball  Reminded me of Indy Jones and the Temple of Doom......"Sounds like Fortune Cookies." 
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| I used to have small ones (about 3" - 4") in my basement in Cincinnati all the time. Oven cleaner works wonders, let me tell ya! But the strangest one I ever saw was about 10" long and brightly colored. It crawled out of a computer cabinet in San Antonio. In 37 years in Texas that was the only centipede I ever saw. |
Well 688, if that thing can survive crossing KAM HWY and then make its way up to the Kahukus when I'm walking around, then we've got issues!  |
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688, right now in KS - but I'm PCSing to Hawaii again in June. Was stationed there once before from 98-01... Spent many a night walking around the woods in the North Shore, comfortable knowing that there was no Jake to worry about. Wasn't grooving on cane spiders though. |
Just when I'm thinking winter in New Hampshire sucks, you post this, I can go to bed tonight without worrying about one of these prehistoric monsters crawling over me. Speaking of prehistoric, they have found petrified centipede tracks 18 inch's wide.  Talk about a nightmare.
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I could handle just about anything HI could throw at me, from giant cockroaches to 400lb Samoan women, but these things.... I found one on the aircraft ramp and tried to kill it by rolling a pushcart with 100lb of gear on it over the 10in sucker. I ran over it with both wheels then turned around. The centipede stopped, paused for a second, turned around to look at me, lifted the front half of it's body of the ground and gave me about 50 fingers.  It didn't survive the T180 aircraft tow tractor though.  Fritz |
Its just a matter of having the right tool for the job.
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H'mm... but you have to pretty much stick an appendage of your body into its mouth, such as the flap of skin between your fingers or an ear lobe. |