Seen a few spiders that size down in Alabama a few years ago working the Ivan CAT. Not a big fan of any spiders, especially the large ones...
Some of these posts are really weird...
You guys that are ready to leave, I say a hearty "Goodbye" to you all for deciding to leave the USA. Good day sir!
Enjoy Mexico, or whereever it is you think your going to find nirvana. I have not been to every country in the world, but the ones I've been to, even as nice as they were, are not home to me like the Western part of the USA is. (Especially the Intermountain West... I really like it here, mostly conservative, do as you please as long as it's not bugging anyone else, and the mountains are awesome.) The down side is that so many "conservative" Californians are moving up here, and really they smell like Liberals in this truely conservative area.
Good example is speed limits in Montana. WTF are they thinking? Oh, it's been voted into law by some dumbshit ex CA people who could not deal with "Reasonable and Prudent" as a speed limit on the highways during daylight hours.... It was so excellent to drive across MT at 120mph on cruise control and have the cops not even give you so much as a second glance... Now it's about 85mph, and your fine, but more and they pull you over... Sucks since the roads have not changed, and there are still many miles at time between cars, even the ones going the other way...
And all the 1984 comments? Guys, can't you see this is just propaganda from ultra LEE Tim Robbins and his buddies who are producing something based on that book? (And his idea that we are going down that path, blah blah blah. He's a fucking ass nugget who really needs to move to Mexico and shut the hell up, and that that bitch Susan that he cohabitates with, take her along for the ride.)