Spider driving

CaptAmehrican shared a link said Wed, Jul 29th 2020 at 2:20pm ET

@eluno did you do this???
https://www.wgrz.com/mobile/article/news/local/car-crashes-into-boats-at-lasalle-yacht-club/71-a635b032-177e-4263-9c27-db48930219e0?fbclid=IwAR0cy7POKE6KuFirgGisyS24zaACAb-e6yR60nuFJjucXTe6wA_JX-0mCVI

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ELUNO said Wed, Jul 29th 2020 at 2:43pm ET:

The spider is innocent! That girl was just driving like a maniac!

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Kyeh said Wed, Jul 29th 2020 at 5:37pm ET:

Ooo - “one belonging to the Niagara Falls Fire Chief.”

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mehcuda67 said Wed, Jul 29th 2020 at 11:32pm ET:

Totaled? I’m sure that will buff right out.
They didn’t even say what happened to the spider.

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- @mehcuda67 It’s now in the boat. Next we will hear about how the boat crashes due to the spider.
  
  ELUNO said Thu, Jul 30th 2020 at 12:02am ET
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- I once went on a clandestine mission to retrieve a Sea Ray from a yacht club in the wee hours of the night. The mission was abandoned due to the inordinate number of spiders in said boat. I couldn’t even get on the thing. I’m talking hundreds of big spiders.
  
  I shudder to think how it would have gone down if I had blindly jumped on the boat and discovered the onboard population while trying to drive it. I’m pretty sure I could have totaled some boats too.
  
  djslack said Thu, Jul 30th 2020 at 12:37am ET
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- @ELUNO I feel a horror movie brewing!
  
  mehcuda67 said Thu, Jul 30th 2020 at 12:51pm ET
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ruouttaurmind said Thu, Jul 30th 2020 at 1:58am ET:

You cats are totally missing the point of the article. It’s not spiders, boats or arachnophobia. What I wanna know is when did Chevrolet introduce a flying car? That’s the real takeaway from this story.

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- @ruouttaurmind Self driving and electric cars are so last week.
  
  mehcuda67 said Thu, Jul 30th 2020 at 12:53pm ET
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cinoclav said Fri, Jul 31st 2020 at 8:54am ET:

From the photos it appears she drove off the parking lot, through the grass and into the boats. I’d say it’s the angled dock I pointed at. She somehow didn’t hit the flag pole which probably would have stopped her. Considering it’s about 55’ from the parking lot to the water’s edge, how the fuck did she not manage to hit the brakes and exactly how fast was she going through a parking lot to have not simply dropped the nose of the car right into the water?! The only spider that was seen was likely hallucinated after the fact.

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- @cinoclav yeah, she probably lost control and panicked and slammed on the gas instead of the breaks
  
  ELUNO said Fri, Jul 31st 2020 at 9:00am ET
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- @ELUNO Exactly. And then blamed it on a spider.
  
  cinoclav said Fri, Jul 31st 2020 at 9:37am ET
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- @cinoclav @ELUNO poor spiders always blamed.
  
  /giphy save the spiders
  
  OnionSoup said Fri, Jul 31st 2020 at 9:40am ET
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llangley said Fri, Jul 31st 2020 at 1:06pm ET:

Well, it was an Impala…

From NatGeo

Impalas are fleet runners who are able to leap distances of up to 33 feet. They use this technique to escape predators and sometimes, apparently, simply to amuse themselves. The impala can also clear bushes and other obstacles by soaring some 10 feet in the air. Typically, a running impala will simply jump over anything in its path.

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- @llangley Ah. Impala boat.
  
  mehcuda67 said Sat, Aug 1st 2020 at 2:06am ET
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- @llangley Now it’s an Impaler.
  
  Kyeh said Sat, Aug 1st 2020 at 1:15pm ET
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