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  • 19-08-2011 10:46pm
    #1
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭


    I posted this over in Zoology but it's like a dead zoo over there.

    A friend has a giant bug in her bathroom and she's really freaked. It's there since last night. She thought it was a child's toy but it moved and she's locked the door from the outside.

    It's about the size of a tv remote control, like a magnified bug but it's body is dark grey and long and fat like a small bird with a shell and with 8-10 well formed legs coming out of it on each side. It looks like it has wings but it's upside down but still waving it's legs around. Hard shell like a giant beetle.

    No photos are forthcoming as she's terrified and won't go back in there.


Comments

  • #2
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Some sort of crustacean? A big cockroache?


  • #3
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Sounds like she has crabs.


  • #4
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    A remote control shaped bird with a shell with 8-10 legs and fat?

    Lol


  • #5
    bigneacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭bigneacy


    Its a pervert alien drone, Sent from outer space to get pictures of your friend going poop. Those sick alien bastards. Only solution is to blast it with piss.


  • #6
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Acid?


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  • #7
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    cockroach?


  • #8
    Krizdarkfall
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭Krizdarkfall


    maybe if its more than and beginning to get noticed it can be looking more for its there, rather than being alone


  • #9
    stevejr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    I bet she has glasses, and it's a sock that moved with the draft of the door opening and closing really quickly.

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



  • #10
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    I hope she looks in there tomorrow and its the size of a fúcking elephant, and sitting on the jax.


  • #11
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Its not a giant one of these is it?

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/voodoomelon/ugh.jpg


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  • #12
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    up for anything wrote: »
    I posted this over in Zoology but it's like a dead zoo over there.
    Heeeyyyy :mad: you posted in there 30 minutes ago. I'm breaking ALL the nerd rules being up this late. Have some patience :(

    Does it look like this? That's a ground beetle. Or this? This maybe?


  • #13
    stevejr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    Krizdarkfall wrote: »
    maybe if its more than and beginning to get noticed it can be looking more for its there, rather than being alone

    Ah yes, I see what you mean..

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



  • #14
    Darkginger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭Darkginger


    It's a stray lobster :) Can I have it?


  • #15
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    up for anything wrote: »
    No photos are forthcoming as she's terrified and won't go back in there.

    How'd you know it's a she?


  • #16
    HazDanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭HazDanz


    up for anything wrote: »
    It's about the size of a tv remote control, like a magnified bug but it's body is dark grey and long and fat like a small bird with a shell and with 8-10 well formed legs coming out of it on each side. It looks like it has wings but it's upside down but still waving it's legs around. Hard shell like a giant beetle.

    Its as big as four cats and has a retractable leg as well so it can leap up at you better. It lights up at night.

    Four ears, two for listening and two for back up. It has claws as big as cups. It's tail is made out of magnets and it has four arses too.


  • #17
    Wetai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai


    g'em wrote: »
    Heeeyyyy :mad: you posted in there 30 minutes ago. I'm breaking ALL the nerd rules being up this late. Have some patience :(

    Does it look like this? That's a ground beetle. Or this? This maybe?
    Or one of these


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Eat it.

    G'wan!


  • #19
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    I was all ready to tell you it was a May bug / Cockchafer but after reading your detailed description I guess not.

    So, OP, I gotta ask, haven't you been smoking peyote for six straight days and couldn't some of this maybe be in your mind?


  • #20
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,786 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    Or this, long way from home if it is. Better she gets a new bathroom, those things live for 10yrs :).


  • #21
    baltimore sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭baltimore sun


    It's called a ryan tubridy, you can lure it away by offering it paper money with the queen of englands head on it.


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  • #22
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    is it batman?


  • #23
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    g'em wrote: »
    Heeeyyyy :mad: you posted in there 30 minutes ago. I'm breaking ALL the nerd rules being up this late. Have some patience :(

    Does it look like this? That's a ground beetle. Or this? This maybe?

    You are incorrect in your classification of your second picture there. That is not a true beetle, rather a mimic which hopes to capitalise on nostalgia and the concept of "retro cool".


  • #24
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »
    You are incorrect in your classification of your second picture there. That is not a true beetle, rather a mimic which hopes to capitalise on nostalgia and the concept of "retro cool".

    yeah... but... yeah.... it was.... DAMMIT.

    Stupid Google :( Where's that things that you're a disaster at thread gone?


  • #25
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Theres really no need to have two threads on this. And you can even embed huge, nightmare inducing pics in the Zoology forum.

    Locked


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