Quote from: zooom on December 02, 2011, 06:43:29 AM
question is...if you encountered it....what caliber of weapon would you find most appropriate to use?!?!?

a shoe.  they are harmless to people.

I think that lobsters are gross too.  If they lived on land, people wouldn't be able to kill them fast enough.  An acceptable defense for the crime of arson would be: "I'm sorry judge, I thought I saw a lobster in the building." The judge would reply "well, its too bad about the 12 people that died, but case dismissed"

also these are lots bigger than wetas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab

Quote from: 77south on December 02, 2011, 09:50:57 AM
also these are lots bigger than wetas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab

Probably taste better, too. 

I liked the flying "B-29" bugs from the first On Any Sunday movie!

Speaking of riding into critters, in a eerie likeness to my turkey attack the last day long ride I took with a friend I got popped by a Meadowlark. It flew from the road side ditch straight at me and hit me right in the heart/chest area. Buddy behind me said it was DRT... dead right there. We were running 85-90 on back roads so it felt like taking a fast ball right to the chest. A few inches higher it would have been in the neck!
What the hell did I ever do to birds? Oh yeah... dove season.

Didn't Corser take on a big ass sea gull at full speed a few years ago at Phillip Island?

They've seen the Randy Johnson video and they're fighting back.

Both Corser and Edwards (when he was ln the YZF), took out seagulls at the Island in '96. Corsers clutch resi  and Edwards screen got smashed. Edwards shoulder nearly got  dislocated as a hit the bird at top speed on the main straight. That was a great weekend watching Corser wrap up the title and Gobert ride the wheels of the Kawasaki.

Quote from: Buckethead on December 02, 2011, 09:59:29 AM
Probably taste better, too. 

Not so fast.

I bet those wetas would be good deep fried and topped with melted cheese