# mailbag/mspidertoilet
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailbag-mspidertoilet/162475
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [March 19, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailbag-mspidertoilet/162475 "2003-03-19T05:32:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@wrongz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wrongz)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailbag-mspidertoilet/162475/1 "2003-03-19T05:32:03Z")
It would appear that some spiders do lurk under toilet seats. It used to be mainly men and boys who were bit by spiders on sensitive areas in outhouses, and the villain was and is the Black Widow. We had a recent incident concerning our deputy sheriff here in our remote Arizona town who was bit-not once-not twice-but three times on the buttocks by a Black Widow lurking in a porta-pottie. He spent several days in the hospital and was off work for about a month. The reason he was in a porta-pottie was because he was working constuction in his off time.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailbag-mspidertoilet/162475/2 "2003-03-19T12:50:02Z")
**wrongz,** in the forum called “Comments on Staff Reports”, there’s another thread about this already: [“Do poisonous spiders lurk under toilet seats?”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170130)
I’m moving your thread to that forum, since it’s a Staff Report rather than a column by Cecil.
And here’s the link to the Staff Report: [Do poisonous spiders lurk under toilet seats?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mspidertoilet.html)
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### Author:  [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailbag-mspidertoilet/162475/3 "2003-03-20T09:02:33Z")
But an outhouse is very different from a restaurant toilet, or an airplane toilet.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailbag-mspidertoilet/162475/4 "2003-03-20T17:39:23Z")
Depends on the restaurant.
Well, for that matter, depends on the outhouse.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailbag-mspidertoilet/162475/5 "2003-03-23T01:33:04Z")
I’ve changed the title of this thread to stop it from making the page formatting “all wonky”.