Foney "camel spider" website(check this crap out!)

[Herp13]

Heres the linkhttp://www.buckstix.com/camelspider.htm
What do you think?

[Matthew]

lol .That's funny. They probably belive that.

[Chilopet]

I've seen those pics with the soldier a few years ago. But i've never seen this website. I'm sure there are tons of people who have never heard of a camel spider and would probaly belive this. But I dont think anyone would be dumb enough to pay $30 for one of those t-shirts!

[ArachnoCrazy]

i hate when people make up these stories stuff like this is why so many people hate inverts i mean really growing to 3 ft. and killing cows that is so stupid and i think those eggs were those penuts with suger on them

[Jonathan]

Hi,
If that really disgusts you, email that cat, and tell him that. I hate the propagation of misinformation about arachnids.
Jon

[ArachnoCrazy]

i did email him although i do not think this will stop people like him but atleast he heard what i had to say :wicked:

[Herp13]

I like that touch they put on the "eggs" to cover up the fact that they are fake by saying "recently outlawed", what crap:)

[king7]

noobs!!!

10-15 years....lol.The tape measure is photoshop job to.:mad:

[Techuser]

ROFL
the foot pics are from snake bites

[darkness]

yea those are fake all right i see those all the time espicially because of where i live there are rattle snakes , copper heads, cotton mouths, and brown recluses out here . so those are really fake.yeap that stuff is capital BS

[Gigas]

Is that toffee popcorn theyre trying to pass off as eggs? unfortunately someone probably believes this guy

[zinto]

i did email him although i do not think this will stop people like him but atleast he heard what i had to say :wicked:

I emailed him too. Let me know if you hear back from him.

[8ball]

Lol no wonder some girl tried thought she knew more then me about solfugids, she told me she went to a site and read that they will run to your shadow and chase you, I was like what??? :?

[Matthew]

ROFL
the foot pics are from snake bites

I know the guy that took those pictures. I wonder if this camel guy knows there copy righted ;)

[Jonathan]

Hey,
He promply replied w/ a smart aleck comment.
Jon

[Herp13]

What did he say?

[ArachnoCrazy]

he never replied to my message what did he say to you

[Cheshire]

This piques my interest, as well.

I'm going to have to send him an email, as well just to piss him off

What species are those in the famous pics?

[jwasted]

OMG that is just crazy. People will think it's real also {D

[Matthew]

Lets bomb him with hundreads of e-mails!

[Herp13]

Thats a great idea, how do you e-mail him? I looked for it but couldn't find his address. I also saw this crap on his site about hunting dear with a howitzer, what crap:)

[Herp13]

Check out the FULL image
http://www.scorpions.co.za/images/cspid.jpg
You can clearly see the guy that is holding them with a pair of pliers, they are like maybe 3-4". What crap, on the buckstick thingie the picture was extremely blurry and they purposley cut out the right side of the photo so you couldn't see the guys sleeve and hand, what retards:wall:

[zinto]

Thats a great idea, how do you e-mail him? I looked for it but couldn't find his address. I also saw this crap on his site about hunting dear with a howitzer, what crap:)

Here's his email: buckstix@aol.com
He hasn't replied to me...

[Goblin_King]

Notice he's asking not for you to submit true stories, but "true stories." haha...

[Herp13]

Ahahaha, i just finished sending him my e-mail, i wonder what he'll say to that. I posted the original picture(very good show of size, and great quality) and then his photoshoped version(extremely crappy quality and purposley cut out hand and sleeve of sodier holding them). Then i told him all these true facts about them, and told him how gay his deer hunting artillery was, and then i told him he made invertabrete keepers look bad. Oh, and the species they are holding is probobly this...
http://www.tarantulaspiders.com/images/gallery/ggranti2(f)%7Btg%7D.jpg

[bugmankeith]

Herp13 you read my mind about sending them a picture... Someone who is willing to waste a few bucks should order the "eggs" and see what they really are, or if they will actually send them to you. LOL

[Herp13]

They can't anymore, apparently they are outlawed...lol. If so, how come we can keep them in our invert collections, yet it is illegal to buy the eggs? Foney coverup on what the eggs really are:) And the tee-shirt is crappy too, i could get the same shirt and draw that stupid graphic then iron it on for $20 less:) Oh, and you can't ever let the eggs near water or they will hatch, like the dormant triops eggs you get in the tadpole shrimp kits.

[Gigas]

, and you can't ever let the eggs near water or they will hatch, like the dormant triops eggs you get in the tadpole shrimp kits.
I loved that bit, " like all spiders eggs they will hatch when they come in cntact with water" What the hell

[Herp13]

Yeah, what the hell:)

[Pyst]

Personally I found the site pretty funny. You guys need to get out more. I don't understand all the fuss you all are making.

[Herp13]

I don't think it's funny, and you don't have any right to tell me where i need to go. I think this clearly mislabels these amazing creatures and people actually believe this crap, therefor spreading the word and putting more shame towards the invertebrate hobby.

[danielr6543]

I think this site is quite hillarious myself.. reminds me of the classic bonsai kitten site. I showed this site to my marine buddy who had encountered those things several times in the wild and even he laughed uncontrollabley. The site is insanely hillarious, its made to tick people off, just like bonsai kitten, which also was friggin hillarious. Like to add another site which i find completely hillarious too, http://www.petsorfood.com/ all these fake sites are great... sparks flying, ticking people off. When really it is all created in humor.

[Herp13]

Actually, sorry for my last post, i was kinda hard headed, if you really do think about it, it is funny, but still stupid.

[Jonathan]

Hey,
I get the whole "life is too short 'GWAR' thing." It may be funny to a small member of individuals who know that this is false information. The sad part is that there are too many dumb dumbs in this silly facade of a reality we call America that think this is true. This is where I have a problem with this. Anyone can have there opinion about this. Although, if anyone ever judged you by what you kept in your house and it didn't piss you off, then I guess you are cool w/ people making a mockery of what you believe in. I am not. That is wanton BS internet crap.
Jon

[zinto]

Oh boy...here we go.....

[Jonathan]

LOL.....Bring It!!

[zinto]

I just meant that we're going to get into a debate over this...I actually agree with you Jonathon. What angers me the most is that this moron is trying to make money off of his lies. That's what really urks me...also that it's giving crap information to people who have no idea about these things...it's pointless.

EDIT: He finally responded to me. All he said was "thank you for your comments." What a punk...

[Jonathan]

Hey,
That comment wasn't directed at you.
That crap makes me mad too. Is it pointless, maybe. Then who would we be if we didn't say anything. I would just like to talk to that clown face to face and really see what he is thinking. That is what I dislike about the internet. If it were a face to face arena, 99% of this crap wouldn't be floating around. But there is this state of anonymity that lets people spew diarrhea from the keyboards. I don't even want to talk about profiting from it!
Jon

[Scorp guy]

Yeah, what the hell:)

lol {D {D

Thing is, if we had about a dozen of these idiots running dumb sites like this, think about it.

Not long ago, someone posted about a guy at a reptile show telling him all the BS rumors of a camel spider, and the guy was serious.

Think of this, every single reptile show you go to, all the idiots tell you "yeah man, they get 3 feet long, they kill camels, they scream, and lay peanuts for eggs" what would you do? correct them, yes. Think if thousands of people bleieved this, we'd all be screwed, heck, they wouldnt even be for sale if that was true.

Funny story. A kid in my class calls me over (knowing im the locale spider boy and know everything...or so they assume.) and shows me something called a camel spider....ive heard of them, but never actually seen them. He argued with me continously, that they grow much larger than that of a T. blondi. I couldnt prove him wrong (during classtime, and didnt have the time) So he convinces the entire class this is by far, the largest living spider. They still beleived it, till i told them right.

Of course we cant do anything but educate the people who believe this BS, but IMO it's not funny at all. People trying to scam others out of their money, but for what? wearing idiotic T-shirts, so they can tell everyone else of these animals? and to scare them into thinking they are venemous, and they will bite your leg off? it's stupid, It's practically scaring people into buying these things, so they can brag of it to others.....

i rest my case:shame:

[JSN]

awsome, just awsome...

[David Burns]

camel spiders = weapons of mass destruction

Find them both in Iraq.

[crashergs]

heres that idiots email address be sure to send him an email about how ridiculous he is, i already did.

buckstix@aol.com

[David Burns]

I e-mailed him and said to keep up the good work.:)

[Galadriel]

The site is very obviously a joke site. People are taking this thing WAY too seriously! Stop and think...the guy has done what he set out to do...get people to visit his site, and we've all just helped him meet that goal. And it really is just a joke, like Landover Baptist or Kingsnake on April fools day. None of it is intended to be taken as fact. So if someone comes up to you and says they heard "camel spiders" get 3 feet long, and chase you to stay in your shadow, just laugh and tell them the site they saw that on was a joke, then educate them. Life is too short to take yourself so seriously. :D

Latha math an drasda

Galadriel

[crashergs]

wrong, the guy is serious, hes an old fart from somewhere in the boonies of louisiana trying to make some money off this

heres an email i sent him

In a message dated 8/6/2006 10:05:38 PM Central Daylight Time, mgames@somewhere.net writes:
SIR,

just want to let you know your website sucks ass and your information solifugids is false and your gay, ill be sure to let others know about this website and they can comment your information about these specimens.

cheers bitch
__________________________________________________ ___
Hello Mario Gamez,

thanks for your comments

Buck Stix

[Herp13]

Ooo, i would kick his arse so bad for that smart a$$ coment.

[BLS Blondi]

I think even THIS story is too ridiculous for the National Enquirer.

[zinto]

wrong, the guy is serious, hes an old fart from somewhere in the boonies of louisiana trying to make some money off this

heres an email i sent him

In a message dated 8/6/2006 10:05:38 PM Central Daylight Time, mgames@somewhere.net writes:
SIR,

just want to let you know your website sucks ass and your information solifugids is false and your gay, ill be sure to let others know about this website and they can comment your information about these specimens.

cheers bitch
__________________________________________________ ___
Hello Mario Gamez,

thanks for your comments

Buck Stix

That was mature of you....:rolleyes:

[sick4x4]

i tried not to get involved in this debate but come on guys...name calling and lowering yourself to his level is not the answer..its great we are sending facts on this species..and that we are striving to educate people on this topic, but lets face it..its his site and it dosent look like he'll be taking it down anytime soon...the problem we face is that our emails are not seen by the public, soo what are we actually solving??nothing, yes it makes us feel better.but i lift weights for that....you defeat lies with facts not verbal attacks and name calling...yes it makes me mad, yes it hurts the hobby, but unless we form a website disbuting his story...no one knows what the facts are because we are sending emails to a guy who could care less....knowlegde is power but is usless unless we share it to a mind the will recieve it...im sure this guy gets the point..after the 1st hundred emails...but when u start to insult him with name calling he just presses delete and what good is it then???? i love our hobby and love this forum...lets not be consumed with this more then it really deserves....just my 2cents peace in the middle east lol!!now thats a topic we can split hairs over lol!!!!! remember the move: jay and silent bob stricks back!!!

[zinto]

Well said, sick.
This is a photo I just took today. It's actual size. Must be a juvenile since they can reach 3 feet. Just thought I'd share a cool picture (in my opinion anyway :D).

[PA7R1CK]

Thats so fake its almost funny. :wicked:

[Mikey_Deadcat]

Hey Hey Hey everybody chill no need to get so pissed over something so stupid its just some kids idea of a funny thing to bullshit people about. I actually think its pretty funny and anyone who is dumn enough to believe a 3 foot spider exist in this day and age is better off being messed. Come on eats cattle thats obnoxious.

[Mikey_Deadcat]

And one more thing i wouldnt be so quick to believe everything you hear is automatically a bunch of crap. Theres still some strange things wandering around on this planet and to think that weve discovered everything is impractical i had a friend whos dad used to work in sewers years ago and apparently he went down into an overflow pipe and was trying to figure out what was blocking it. So he started crawling down it and almost went face first into a web spanning the whole sewer tunnel and he said there were kittens webbed up into the tunnel and a orb weaver shaped spider the size of a small dog in the center. And he ran out of the sewer probably with crap in his pants and quit that day. I dont know for sure if this stories true but im always open for strange possibilities and its also a pretty well thought up story if it is bullshit. Ive been handling spiders my whole life since raising brown recluses as a child and that still gives me goosebumps.

[maxident213]

Can you get the exact location of this sewer tunnel? :D

[Schlyne]

If only more people knew about snopes and would use the site....

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

[sick4x4]

i sencond the wheres this tunnel...boy would i love to see a web that big...almost sounds like aracnophobia the movie lol!!!who knew huntsmen could kill people lol!!!!!

[ArachnoCrazy]

he probable saw a big spider freaked out and Exaggerated

[Herp13]

I like that video of the camel spider:) Oh, zinto, is it really that big? What species is it?

[zinto]

I like that video of the camel spider:) Oh, zinto, is it really that big? What species is it?

lol No, it's not really that big. The body length was probably 3/4 of an inch. I'm not sure of the species. It was just crawling around my kitchen, so I took a few pics before letting him go.