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 was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a scorpion,
....

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'...

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

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.

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.

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

So far it has worked !