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You find this on your hand. What do you do? (Original Post) True Dough Mar 2025 OP
OMG 😱 panic. That is huge 😟 TommieMommy Mar 2025 #1
I think I would... 2naSalit Mar 2025 #2
wake up nuxvomica Mar 2025 #3
Put it on the ground and consider myself lucky to have had contact with an amazing creature. sinkingfeeling Mar 2025 #4
When wracked with fear and consumed in doubt... Wounded Bear Mar 2025 #5
Lick it??? LuckyCharms Mar 2025 #6
Take lots of photos. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #7
Stifle my scream and put it on the ground before it bites me!! 58Sunliner Mar 2025 #8
I know this is wrong Wifes husband Mar 2025 #9
Can you imagine True Dough Mar 2025 #14
Do I have a hatchet?🪓 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2025 #10
So you don't value True Dough Mar 2025 #13
I'll make do! Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2025 #16
What is it? efhmc Mar 2025 #11
omg.................... some_of_us_are_sane Mar 2025 #12
Curse Timothy Leary Ptah Mar 2025 #15
Die immediately. Iggo Mar 2025 #17
I'd probably talk to it. "Hey, buddy, how's it going?" hunter Mar 2025 #18
Do any of those animals True Dough Mar 2025 #19
I quit hunting and fishing a long time ago. hunter Mar 2025 #20
I've hunted and fished but I don't do it anymore LogDog75 Mar 2025 #27
Your last point is spot on. Boomerproud Mar 2025 #23
What is it? debm55 Mar 2025 #21
I don't know for sure, True Dough Mar 2025 #22
Looks like we have an answer: True Dough Mar 2025 #32
Carefully put it on the ground or a tree branch. Hercules Beetle. Dorothy V Mar 2025 #24
Go home and change my underwear! LogDog75 Mar 2025 #25
Try not to scream "Get it off! Get it off!" and put it gently on the ground. Ocelot II Mar 2025 #26
Let it enter your spine. Become a Goa'uld. GreenWave Mar 2025 #28
Yikes! We had 4 Madagascar water bugs run onto the boat Ritabert Mar 2025 #29
My daughter... ultralite001 Mar 2025 #30
Huh. whaddya know...a Hercules Beetle justaprogressive Mar 2025 #31
think or say "cool!" Kali Mar 2025 #33

hunter

(40,329 posts)
18. I'd probably talk to it. "Hey, buddy, how's it going?"
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 12:46 PM
Mar 2025

I was surprised by a coyote once while hiking alone and that's exactly what I said.

I've also been surprised by bears and pigs.

The scariest encounters I've had have been with humans.


hunter

(40,329 posts)
20. I quit hunting and fishing a long time ago.
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 01:13 PM
Mar 2025

It's much easier to buy food at Costco, and much easier to enjoy the wilderness unburdened by guns or fishing poles.



LogDog75

(1,062 posts)
27. I've hunted and fished but I don't do it anymore
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 03:12 PM
Mar 2025

I tried bow hunting deer with a friend but never saw a deer so zero kills. I've caught both fresh and sea water fish but I gave that up, too. It's easier to buy meat and fish from the store than to go out and hunt or fish for it.

I really don't have a problem with people who hunt and fish, except when the don't obey the laws and limits. Many people rely on hunting and fishing to put food on their table because it saves them money than buying at the store.

Dorothy V

(453 posts)
24. Carefully put it on the ground or a tree branch. Hercules Beetle.
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 02:13 PM
Mar 2025

Harmless to humans, ecological good guys. Look them up. Some folks keep them as pets.
Only the males have those outsized jaws. Used for fighting other males for the ladies. I expect a lady Hercules beetle would find the guy in the pic mighty hot.

Ocelot II

(128,852 posts)
26. Try not to scream "Get it off! Get it off!" and put it gently on the ground.
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 03:11 PM
Mar 2025

Then I would run away in case it came after me or there were more of them.

Ritabert

(1,931 posts)
29. Yikes! We had 4 Madagascar water bugs run onto the boat
Sat Mar 1, 2025, 03:21 PM
Mar 2025

...after a close lightning strike. They were 4" by 3" with pincers on the front. Hubby nailed 3 of them but one hid and wasn't found until the next day.

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