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Camel Spiders
While working for Al Salam Aircraft company in Riyadh,
2002- 2003 (I left after the Jadawel Compound bombing)
we had many run- ins with camel spiders in the hanger
areas and out in the aircraft run areas.
I admit that my
first encounter with one scared the hell out of me but
it got to be routine. Some were relatively small, others
fairly large, all were aggressive like nothing I have
ever seen. They would come in, mostly on night shift,
walking right up the middle of the hanger. We couldn't
take a broom, or anything else, and try to push them out
as they would turn aggressive and attack whatever we
would use so we finally started keeping coffee cans, and
other containers, around and just trapped them and took
them out to the fence line and let them go. Of course
some did not want to be trapped and we would then
introduce them to the "Smash factor" but what a mess
that made.
2 spiders together
Luckily we had no one bitten, American or
Saudi, but there were the usual close calls since we had
to start checking everything we opened, carefully, for
any intruders. I hope I never run into one of those
nasty little buggers again. They must be what B sci-fi
movie producers had in mind when they were making all
those movies in the 50's. 
Treating a camel spider bite
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