Spider Stops Post

[FredPuli43]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2454080/Postman-refuses-deliver-letter-massive-spider-web-blocking-path-door--arachnid-bigger-10p-piece.html


Well, it's in the Daily Mail, so it must be news. Any thoughts on arachnophobe posties?

[Prudie]

Well I wouldn't have delivered it past a spider either but as a woman that's my prerogative! What a wuss

[mier]

It must be spider day

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2453833/Decorator-nearly-loses-leg-bite-UKs-poisonous-spider.html

[anotheoldgit]

/// Well, it's in the Daily Mail, so it must be news. /// Any thoughts on

Why did you bother posting this Daily Mail story Gromit, when you are always telling others it's just another "Non News story"

[mier]

Gromit?!

[Baldric]

Er, Gromit hasn't contributed yet!

[humbersloop]

^that's you told Fred ;)

[ck1]

It would have been pretty easy to get a stick and move the web out of the way, total wuss, although I do also hate spiders!

[Baldric]

What a wimp!

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry wrong person, but it sounded like the kind of thing Gromt comes out with, it must be catching.

[Tilly2]

Postman Pat would have delivered it.

[FredPuli43]

Yes, but AOG with his usual accuracy on matters of fact, and the Daily Mail, says Gromit posted the OP. So it must have been Gromit.

Anyway, we now know that Gromit persistently says that stories in the Mail are non-news. Don't whether I do it, but I must say I trawled through the front page online and had got over half-way down before I found that as the nearest thing to news; The Times missed it. But if you are interested in the new prince going to Sandringham, a fat man who is now thinner, and other matters of import, that's news .

[FredPuli43]

AOG , thanks for the veiled apology! I mean that I don't do it; claiming stories as non-news; persistently. But , on the evidence before me, I ought to, though it seems self-evident and unnecessary. After all, all papers have a duty to entertain. Some do it more than others. Even the FT is quite entertaining on Saturdays.

[jno]

you have to beware of spiders these days

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2452231/Two-treated-hospital-bitten-poisonous-false-widow-spiders.html

[humbersloop]

Mier's link tells us
//It is understood that it may have made its way to these shores from Madeira or the Canary Islands in a shipment of bananas.//

clearly, illegal immigrant spiders are now overrunning the country - or at least Sutton - so I'm surprised they underplayed that bit

[FredPuli43]

The Daily Mail would never be alarmist surely but:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/may/news_11767.html

rather suggests that it is. Elsewhere the Natural History Museum has recorded cases where the spider could be identified having bitten someone. Beware! One example was of the mouse spider; a very common species in houses; one of a wolf spider; very common in gardens; and one of a money spider, which defies appropriate comment. And there was one by the same species as in the original link, though how the garden cross spider, a harmless orb-weaver, managed to bite anyone is a mystery. Perhaps it thought the person was a suitor; late in the season the old males tend to be eaten by the females.

[THECORBYLOON]

The Mail says there are thousands of poisonous spiders in Britain, do many folk eat them?

[cazzz1975]

He needs to man up if something as harmless as a web stops him doing his job

[boxtops]

That's a bit of a wuss postman - he could have brushed it aside with his bag. Our garden's full of them at the moment. I can understand the slippery path thing, that's H&S, but a garden spider? - nooooo.

Those false widow spiders are in Dover at the moment, lots of people reporting them, but they're INDOORS.

[sandyRoe]

It's good to see that he put the welfare of a tiny animal first and didn't disturb its home. Good for him, I say.