Spiders in the cabin!
 

To add to the list of oddball things happening to me recently, I was relaxing in CE on thursday, and casually gazed upwards when I saw a spider (say the size of my fingernail) in the crook above the window between the curved aircraft wall and the overhead compartments. Now I dont know much about spider behaviour but it seemed pretty still for the whole flight so I comforted myself that it was dead. That and the fact that theres little food for it (except perhaps for the massive fly that was buzzing around; double odd!). Anyways, I know we dont have poisonous spiders in Britain, god bless this isle, but I dont know where it had travelled from so I was quite nervous.

I didnt point it out to the crew, but I probably would have done if it had moved.

Nasty.:(

I think they fumigate the cabins though dont they?

Maybe the scorpion had killed it?

Of course the spider was not moving so as not to scare off the fly...

There's a picture on www.flightglobal.com of a frog in an aircraft window frame. Now, that is weird...

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Spider spider on my plane
Memories of scorpions once again.
British arachnid or a foreign pest?
Flying CE yet I cannot rest.

Clever spider spins a thread
To make a trap we call a web.
British spider knows that she
Will have that fly with her tea.

I wonder if Spidey had made a unilateral upgrade to CE and wanted to keep schtum so the crew would not insist it returned to its seat in ET.

Any sign of a tiny Gold or Silver card?

Of course it was staying still. Mr Spider had been away for a weekend partying with the Scorpion and was now on his way home feeling the worse for wear. Have you ever tried walking in a plane on 8 legs when you are drunk?

Based on the multitude of anecdotal evidence on this board (tho admittedly more of the up-front than the up-stairs crowd), I'd think 'walk' wouldn't be nearly as accurate a description as 'stumble' or 'crawl'... :p

All Hail Bubblies ^(except of course unless yer coming in from some god-forsaken outstation:eek:)!!

Did BA provide an old lady to swallow the spider?

If not, how many compensation points can the OP expect from Executive Club ;)

Better 8 legs than leg-less.:p

Just think about those eight shoes lying beside the seat, ready to be pissed in.

4/11 replies mention a scorpion so far. I'm surprised it's so low.

I see you were in CE, so this isn't actually part of rebranding LHR-SYD-LHR as the Funnel Web Route.

:D I was just thinking that after I wrote it.

This is why I will not go and live in Australia as my wife keeps suggesting we should do...;) I just tell her that if we move to Aus it will make gardening a dangerous activity and she likes the garden :D

So far it has worked !