the downside of a hood scoop (arachnophobia!)
09-27-2004, 09:54 PM
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the downside of a hood scoop
In fall, spiders crawl in and hide around your engine. Then when you get out of work and drive halfway home, they come crawling into your car to scare the s**t out of you. So, you swerve around for a second freaking out, then pull over and begin to unleash the slaughter upon as many as you can. Stupid spiders...
09-27-2004, 10:47 PM
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i found one sitting on its web in my car one morning when i was heading off to work, thankfully i saw it right after i sat down. i jumped out of the car so fast, then proceeded to kill it
09-27-2004, 10:47 PM
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this is true, i can't guarentee the hood scoop factor. but i have never seen so many get in any car before. i was staring at my windshield and i spotted 2 pretty large mature spiders running across. i first thought to myself, better turn on the wipers. then i realized they weren't on the outside of the windshield. i slammed on my breaks and threw on my hazards on a 2 lane highway. proceeded to run out of the car jumping up and down. then ran back into the car, grabbed my new amazing spider man issue and showed all those spiders decent literature. it was extremely freaky, for awhile i sat there with my spider guts covered comic wondering if i was hallucinating. but sad to say it was real. i am assuming since the weather is getting so cold they were looking for a warm place to hang out. but since my engine was causing their warm place to be a little more warmer than they wanted. they ran like hell into my car to say hi...
09-27-2004, 10:55 PM
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a 4 inch cane spider was on my freakin window as i drove to my friends house. it left a whole lot of stupid web all over my car. i established dominance after chasing that sob down.
09-27-2004, 11:01 PM
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i had a big *** wolf spider on my old car once, but luckily he was on the outside and easily dispatched with a hose.
i once had a cockroach (or palmetto bug as the locals called them) in my hotel room in Tampa. that ****er was so big i could hear his wings flapping as he flew around my room. i wasted a perfectly good issue of sport compact car on that bastard.
i once had a cockroach (or palmetto bug as the locals called them) in my hotel room in Tampa. that ****er was so big i could hear his wings flapping as he flew around my room. i wasted a perfectly good issue of sport compact car on that bastard.
09-27-2004, 11:08 PM
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dude. douft its the hood scoop. it gets so hot near the engine when the car is going they should be toasted spiders. so most likeley they came up through the buttom
09-28-2004, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by cteve
this is true, i can't guarentee the hood scoop factor. but i have never seen so many get in any car before. i was staring at my windshield and i spotted 2 pretty large mature spiders running across. i first thought to myself, better turn on the wipers. then i realized they weren't on the outside of the windshield. i slammed on my breaks and threw on my hazards on a 2 lane highway. proceeded to run out of the car jumping up and down. then ran back into the car, grabbed my new amazing spider man issue and showed all those spiders decent literature. it was extremely freaky, for awhile i sat there with my spider guts covered comic wondering if i was hallucinating. but sad to say it was real. i am assuming since the weather is getting so cold they were looking for a warm place to hang out. but since my engine was causing their warm place to be a little more warmer than they wanted. they ran like hell into my car to say hi...
09-28-2004, 03:12 PM
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I found a fatty black widow living in my front passenger fender of my car. I was putting in an intake and when I pulled back the splash gaurd in my wheel well, I saw the shadow of it. I eventually flushed it into the engine bay where it was flung out. You know it is too big when you go to step on it and you can hear/feel it pop... Yuck!
09-28-2004, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by RSA WRX
I found a fatty black widow living in my front passenger fender of my car. I was putting in an intake and when I pulled back the splash gaurd in my wheel well, I saw the shadow of it. I eventually flushed it into the engine bay where it was flung out. You know it is too big when you go to step on it and you can hear/feel it pop... Yuck!
