I was bitten by a white tail spider, I had to drive myself with my kids to the hospital. On the way, a police officer pulled me over. He told me I wasn't allowed to drive (still don't know why), so he dropped me and my boys off at the closest petrol station and left us there. I had to call a friend to come pick us up and take me to the hospital, as no ambulance would come that far out of town. After weeks in hospital I went to court and the police officer was fired.
@smokingblues50676 ай бұрын
Shameful behaviour on behalf of that police man
@sticksandbones69875 ай бұрын
Here in ameriKa you probably would have been arrested and then had the crap beaten out of you.
@ravenfeader6 ай бұрын
Growing up in Australia I had a curiosity for bities that terrified my Scottish mother and got me many hidings , snakes , spiders , lizards I had no fear of turning them into pets but I was terrified of my 4ft10 red headed mother when she bared her fangs and started spitting venom .
@smokingblues50676 ай бұрын
😂
@stst776 ай бұрын
😂
@bobloblaw2046 ай бұрын
You and your son make my day with videos. God bless.
@SurvivingAfrica6 ай бұрын
Your comment made my day..thank you
@debbie9916 ай бұрын
I now know where Winston gets his good looks and incredible speaking voice :)
@caseclosed93426 ай бұрын
JRR Tolkien got bitten by a baboon spider when he was a child in the garden of his house in South Africa which is where he got the idea for Shelob from. Glad you didn’t end up like Frodo when you got bit…
@robbertram33106 ай бұрын
I’ve never been able to overcome my fear of large spiders. I tried once but it didn’t go well. My daughter was in 5th or 6th grade and she was tasked with taking care of the class tarantula for the weekend. She had no fear of the tarantula and would let it walk up and down her arms. So, I thought great, the ideal time to prove to myself that a giant spider with giant fangs was no different than any other pet. The spider’s weekend accommodation was a little clear plastic box, maybe 8”x8”x8”. My daughter tilted the box over my hand so that the tarantula would slide down the side and walk gently onto my hand, but the spider didn’t want to come out and play. Daughter Julie shook the box and gave it a tap or two to loosen its grip and here it comes, all pissed off and right onto the open palm of my hand. When it landed it immediately reared up onto its back legs like it was about to sink its shiny black fangs into the meaty part of my thumb, and the next thing it knows is it is on the floor. Thankfully the floor was carpeted and no harm came to the innocent creature that just wanted to be left alone.
@williamwelch76 ай бұрын
Thanks Frederick. At least your work didn't involve too much ladder work. Ladders tend to put more people into the emergency room than almost anything else.
@Dee-nonamnamrson87186 ай бұрын
People think we are crazy, but its a love for the animals themselves. We just take the bad with the good.
@doritoreiss80896 ай бұрын
Your first instinct was to catch the thing. Mine would have been to jump back and run off screaming. I HATE spiders.
@godnah6 ай бұрын
A nice morning bite for everyone.
@SurvivingAfrica6 ай бұрын
😂😂
@Peter-cm8vi6 ай бұрын
I'm with you,. I can deal with snakes but am insanely fearful of spiders.
@Bull3tBikes6 ай бұрын
Thanks Mr Sterzel for this creepy crawly story as someone with a deep fear of Spiders the underside of a turantula is the last place i would want my fingers to be, we have some quite large hairy and fast wolf spiders here, the only turantuloid we have locally is the Pacific folding door spider which are quite small.
@edwardgeiser15716 ай бұрын
I have spheksophobia, or a fear of wasps. A Terrible fear. It's spring in Ohio currently. This past week as I'm driving home from work I had the car windows cracked to enjoy the spring atmosphere. As I'm stopped at a red light one of these little wasp demons makes shoots immediately through the driver side crack and is now in my lap! Well I'm just freaking out. Slapping everywhere frantically in sheer terror! I nearly slammed on the gas pedal and rear ended the car in front of me. I'm certain the car behind me is seeing my arms flailing all over the place. I'm trying to hit it, but not hit it, if you know what I mean. I know it's receiving damage because it left a wing and some part of it's body behind on the lap of jeans, but I can see it still moving around on the floor. So I grab a spare flannel shirt from the passenger side to cover it up and keep it one place if possible. At that point the car in front had moved forward enough I can pull into a car repair shop on the right. I parked and immediately evacuated the car. I gently picked up the shirt.....and no wasp!! I never found the thing! I still don't know where it's at!
@ruthanneseven6 ай бұрын
My friend is a bit "special", and being that he's my son's age, he has decided to use my Mom history to help him. That said, he called today, saying he'd gotten a spider bite. After he described it, I thought he should see a doctor. In the interim, he applied toothpaste as an "antibiotic" on his bite. I tried to reason with him. Venom is poison, not a microbe! He'd popped the blister and and squeezed as much as possible out of it already. The wound was about a half inch black spot. Long story short, the doctor gave him amoxicillin and a topical antibiotic. It sounded inept as treatments go. Am I wrong to be disgusted, Fred? 😅
@Only-Me-UC6 ай бұрын
That is the type of bad day at the office, I would hate to have. Like yourself, I would never want it to happen either.
@embreeja6 ай бұрын
I grew up in Sierra Madre Calif. (just outside Pasadena). My father made annual trips to the jungles of Ecuador to collect orchids (we had extensive greenhouses and a huge orchid collection). One day someone found a Violin spider in downtown Sierra Madre (a venomous spider akin to a black widow or something). The town freaked out. There were squads of government goons roving all over our property with 'the finger of blame pointing in our direction'. They never found any of these dread spiders from us (the USDA used to quarantine and extensively fumigate any plants that my dad brought in to the US --- they were thorough and there was NO WAY that anything was going to survive that). That was 60 years ago and I believe that the 'Violin Spider' statue that was erected in downtown Sierra Madre is still there.... I HAVE been bitten many times by black widows and I can attest --- it hurts for many, many days. I can't imagine being bitten by a huge tarantula!
@alvydasurbonas89136 ай бұрын
o man what a nightmare.
@Psalm11015 ай бұрын
Not a boring life but a skill I think yes
@foreverpinkf.76036 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing a bed-time story.
@topfeedcoco6 ай бұрын
I always love your stories, you've been bitten by damn near everything that walks crawls or slithers the face of the Earth. You seem like you've always had a serious demeanor, but someone should use your likeness in a comedy where the dangerous animal handler's catch phrase is, "No need to panic, everyone remain calm, I've just been bitten." 😄
@Clancydaenlightened6 ай бұрын
Meanwhile "Well shit if Winston can do this KZbin shit, so can I. People actually get paid for this??"
@SurvivingAfrica6 ай бұрын
Not really.... have you tried ??
@thurin846 ай бұрын
that is definitely something i will NOT be googling lol. i want to be able to sleep for the next month. glad your hand healed.
@hottubmobileneil6 ай бұрын
I am not Neil .I am a roommate . In Ontario Canada in cottage country we have large dock spiders as big as a triancilia . I do not know if they are poisonous ? They look frightening .
@Tactical_Turtwig6 ай бұрын
I have tarantulas as pets. Im curious if this particular babboon spider was Pterinochilus murinus or maybe the game genus at least. These little guys can be so skittish, the faintest exhalation from your nose or mouth can vibrate their EXTENSIVE webbing and theyll bolt 😅
@noapologizes20184 ай бұрын
Terrifying. . .
@CalimehChelonia6 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your interesting storys. Greetings from Austria.
@SurvivingAfrica6 ай бұрын
Greetings
@terrylucas6306 ай бұрын
I for one am happy that you made it through all the creepy crawlers that have bitten you🙏 Another excellent narration of your fabulous stories. Appreciate you. I hope this reaches you and those you love in great health and happiness❤️🙏 Safe travels sir
@treetheodore69066 ай бұрын
Wow!
@SurvivingAfrica6 ай бұрын
Hi Tree
@valerieperry34806 ай бұрын
That was horrible and scary 😨. Also entertaining 😊
@squelfland6 ай бұрын
Thank you for another wonderful story.
@moopius6 ай бұрын
Everyone says Australia is dangerous but Africa has all the nasties that we have plus lions, leopards, hyenas, baboons, hippo's, rhino's and elephant's. I know where I'd rather camp overnight!
@ravenfeader6 ай бұрын
Crocks and Whites too, similar climate and flora and populated by similar no nonsense people who thrive amongst it all .
@jeremywanner4526Ай бұрын
In a hotel
@monnimonnickendam72896 ай бұрын
Came across the infamous Brazilian Recluse on several occasions in boxes of bananas where I worked as a teen. You should have seen my workmates run... I'd spent some years in the tropics and hot climates, I was used to critters. Most spiders were sleepy or dead already, I dispatched another with a broom before there was an "accident". They are an aggressive arachnid with huge fangs, and a very painful bite. We'll be having none of that thank you very much!
@DavidJohnsonFromSeattle6 ай бұрын
I like the snake stories but I don't think I can handle the spider stories...
@rick-be6 ай бұрын
Nice shirt....
@kmm1296 ай бұрын
Mornin' Luv.
@SurvivingAfrica6 ай бұрын
Morning
@David-e1b3t4 ай бұрын
Just listening to the first 3 minutes of this video, I almost got hives. nice
@stst776 ай бұрын
Some people love spiders like you love snakes but i hate them both. However if i had to choose between the two, i would pick spiders. I used to play on the wood pile with a black widow next to me as a child. I was not in the slightest way scared but it that had been a snake i would have been petrified. However i did grow up with wolf spiders that were everywhere, they got in the houses, in public buildings, in the yard, etc. These spiders are very aggressive and will chase you down. I hate them. They are large and ugly but nothing like a tarantula or baboon spider. As for tarantulas, my mom was a teacher and she had a tarantula as a class pet that of course spent a lot of time in our house but amazingly it never bit anyone. My mom would always allow her 4th grade students to hold it but no one ever got bit.
@barniyamum3 ай бұрын
Great that the spiders in germany dont get huge usually ^^
@MartinMcMartin6 ай бұрын
I just googled it, holy fu## !
@Malthus6 ай бұрын
I'm surprised you'd want any fangs in your flesh at all...In any case you've successfully clickbaited me young man. 😆
@mandowarrior1236 ай бұрын
Clickbaited? He actually got bitten! I was expecting a near miss!
@teridacktaljones45536 ай бұрын
🦝.
@ManlyHandshake6 ай бұрын
You are the best escape to like florida or somewhere youll be safer but still get your nature fix
@Joemantler6 ай бұрын
Evolution has made us weary of spiders for a reason. But evolution made us weary of snakes, too, and that did not stop you.
@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoffIV6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the story Frederick, Sunday mornings are greater when I see you posted a new video