why send me that!

Now i'm not a fan of spiders - in fact i can't stand them. so why on earth would someone want to send me this in an email?!

(thats a full size dinner plate....)









A true story and its source was the Australian Quarantine Inspection
> > Service in Adelaide.
> > A bloke and his family were on holidays in the United States and went to
> > México for a week. An avid cactus fan, the man bought one-metre high,
> > rare and expensive cactus there. On arrival back home Australian Customs
> > said it must be quarantined for 3 months.
> > He finally got his cactus home. Planted it in his backyard, and over
> > time
> > it grew to about 2 metres. One evening while watering his garden after a
> > warm spring day, he gave the cactus a light spray. He was amazed to see
> > the plant shiver all over, he gave it another spray and it shivered
> > again. He was puzzled so he rang the council who put him on to the state
> > gardens people. After a few transfers he got the state's foremost cactus
> > expert who asked him many questions. How tall is it? Has it flowered?
> > Etc.
> > Finally he asked the most disturbing question. "Is your family in the
> > house?" The bloke answered yes. The cactus expert said get out of the
> > house NOW, get on to the front nature strip and wait for me; I will be
> > there in 20 minutes.
> > Fifteen minutes later, 2 fire trucks, 2 police cars and an ambulance
> > came
> > screaming around the corner. A fireman got out and asked "Are you the
> > bloke with the cactus?" I am, he said. A guy jumped out of the fire
> > truck
> > wearing what looked like a space suit, a breathing cylinder and mask
> > attached to what looked like a scuba backpack with a large hose
> > attached.
> > He headed for the backyard and turned a flame-thrower on the cactus
> > spraying it up and down.
> > After a few minutes the flame-thrower man stopped, the cactus stood
> > Smoking and spitting, half the fence was burnt and parts of the gardens
> > were well and truly scorched. Just then the cactus expert appeared and
> > laid a calming hand on the bloke's shoulder. "What the hell's going on?"
> > he says. "Let me show you" says the cactus man. He went over to the
> > cactus and picked away a crusty bit, the cactus was almost entirely
> > hollow and filled with tiger striped bird-eating tarantula spiders, each
> > about the size of two hand spans.
> > The story was that this type of spider lays eggs in this type of cactus
> > and they hatch and live in it as they grow to full size. When full size
> > they release themselves. The cactus just explodes and about 150 dinner
> > plate sized hairy spiders are flung from it, dispersing everywhere. They
> > had been ready to pop. The aftermath was that the house and the
> > adjoining
> > houses had to be vacated and fumigated: police tape was put up outside
> > the whole area and no one was allowed in for two weeks.