# It's about time I caught a giant house spider! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-i-caught-a-giant-house-spider/732180 "2015-09-22T03:32:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-i-caught-a-giant-house-spider/732180/1 "2015-09-22T03:32:22Z")
[Here’s one](https://www.flickr.com/photos/27492458@N05/6102270156/) I caught a few years ago. I’d only seen one this year – and it was outside on the wood pile. I finally found one inside las night. We shared a shower. Actually, only part of a shower. I called The Missus to get the penalty jar so I could give him a time-out until I finished. She doesn’t care for large spider so much, so when she saw it she was like ‘Oh, my god!’ Had she found it first, there would have been a shriek. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-i-caught-a-giant-house-spider/732180/2 "2015-09-22T12:50:38Z")
Did you release him outside? ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-i-caught-a-giant-house-spider/732180/3 "2015-09-22T13:05:52Z")
Not bad, but come back when you catch a [clock spider.](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/clock-spider) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-i-caught-a-giant-house-spider/732180/4 "2015-09-22T13:52:09Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Not bad, but come back when you catch a [clock spider.](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/clock-spider) We don’t have those here. (Clock spiders are always mentioned because they’re so big. But I’m not the one who named the GHSs.) > [@Honey](#): > > Did you release him outside? Of course. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-i-caught-a-giant-house-spider/732180/5 "2015-09-22T14:21:11Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Not bad, but come back when you catch a [clock spider.](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/clock-spider) /chanting and rocking We don’t have those here . . . we DON’T have those here . . . we don’t HAVE those here . . . we don’t have those HERE . . . we don’t have those here . . . we DON’T have those here . . . we don’t HAVE those here . . . we don’t have those HERE . . . we don’t have those here . . . we DON’T have those here . . . :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-i-caught-a-giant-house-spider/732180/6 "2015-09-23T01:38:30Z")
We had a female dark fishing spider a couple years ago that measured 97 mm, at the tips of the legs. That’s nearly four inches. Screw that. You have to kill the thing and scrape it off the wall into the trash, and take the can down to the end of the lane now. And then burn the house and bulldoze the lot. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-i-caught-a-giant-house-spider/732180/7 "2015-09-23T02:54:08Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > /chanting and rocking > > We don’t have those here . . . we DON’T have those here . . . we don’t HAVE those here . . . we don’t have those HERE . . . we don’t have those here . . . we DON’T have those here . . . we don’t HAVE those here . . . we don’t have those HERE . . . we don’t have those here . . . we DON’T have those here . . . > > :eek: :eek: :eek: Huntsman spiders are fine. I usually have a couple of them in the house at any one time. I don’t have any small children or animals in the house and I’m too big for them to eat so no dramas. I leave them alone and vice versa.