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Years ago, a friend and I went up into the Muddy Creek Game Refuge to look for a place to bow hunt. We were checking various trees to see how the acorn crop was doing and if any were dropping yet. We had just checked a large black oak tree and were headed back to the truck when we spotted the biggest centipede that either one of us had ever seen. It was close to ten inches long, a deep orange with a black head and huge pincers. It became very aggressive and actually struck out at us as we checked it out. I just had to catch it and take it back to show everyone but we had nothing to put it in except a smallish glass orange juice bottle with a rather small lid. Frosty thought I was nuts as I worked at getting it cornered and finally got it to go into the bottle. We both knew that it had to have a wicked bite and watched it as it tried to find a way out.
The next day, I took it to work to show everyone what we had found. By now I had it in a mason jar with a little grass and some grasshoppers. One of the guys that worked near me was Chris, a small slender guy that reminded you of Barney of Mayberry. Chris was a nervous guy and acted just like Barney, in fact, the joke was Don Knots got paid to act like Barney where Chris really was him. Anyways, Chris was totally scared to death of it and was afraid that it would somehow get loose in the shop. He was so worried that he was constantly coming by to make sure it was still in the jar.
So, at break time, I found another jar to put it in and gave it to a friend to hold. Then at lunch time, the friend helped me get the centipede into the second jar and then I pushed the original jar off the work bench where it broke on the floor. So there was broken glass with the grass ect on the floor but no centipede to be found and then we hurried off to lunch. The centipede was safe in another jar and in my truck now as we ate our lunch.
My friend and I were intentionally slow getting back to our work, our foreman knew what was done and was beside himself and had to leave so as to not give it away. When we walked in the room, everything movable for twenty feet around had already been moved as Chris searched nervously for the dangerous bug. All in all, about ten people knew what had happened except for Chris and it took us about ten minutes to calm him down so that he could go back to work.
So, that evening I was in Walmart to get a toy for a small kid and what did I find? A large plastic centipede that looked almost perfect! So, the next day, it was carefully placed under a pallet right beside him where the tail end was showing. Again, everyone knew about it except for Chris and we waited patiently for him to finally find it. Yep, he took off like a scolded dog and one of the guys quickly grabbed it and hid it. Soon, we were all gathered around his area as he tried to convince us that he had seen it but it was nowhere to be found.
Chris was nervous wreck, very fidgety as he kept an eye out for the loose monster centipede. No, no one ever told him otherwise and the centipede ended up in the local high school science class. I have only seen one other one that big since then and yes, they do have a very wicked bite. I warned my wife when we got married that there wouldn't be very many dull moments and she can vouch for that even now.
The next day, I took it to work to show everyone what we had found. By now I had it in a mason jar with a little grass and some grasshoppers. One of the guys that worked near me was Chris, a small slender guy that reminded you of Barney of Mayberry. Chris was a nervous guy and acted just like Barney, in fact, the joke was Don Knots got paid to act like Barney where Chris really was him. Anyways, Chris was totally scared to death of it and was afraid that it would somehow get loose in the shop. He was so worried that he was constantly coming by to make sure it was still in the jar.
So, at break time, I found another jar to put it in and gave it to a friend to hold. Then at lunch time, the friend helped me get the centipede into the second jar and then I pushed the original jar off the work bench where it broke on the floor. So there was broken glass with the grass ect on the floor but no centipede to be found and then we hurried off to lunch. The centipede was safe in another jar and in my truck now as we ate our lunch.
My friend and I were intentionally slow getting back to our work, our foreman knew what was done and was beside himself and had to leave so as to not give it away. When we walked in the room, everything movable for twenty feet around had already been moved as Chris searched nervously for the dangerous bug. All in all, about ten people knew what had happened except for Chris and it took us about ten minutes to calm him down so that he could go back to work.
So, that evening I was in Walmart to get a toy for a small kid and what did I find? A large plastic centipede that looked almost perfect! So, the next day, it was carefully placed under a pallet right beside him where the tail end was showing. Again, everyone knew about it except for Chris and we waited patiently for him to finally find it. Yep, he took off like a scolded dog and one of the guys quickly grabbed it and hid it. Soon, we were all gathered around his area as he tried to convince us that he had seen it but it was nowhere to be found.
Chris was nervous wreck, very fidgety as he kept an eye out for the loose monster centipede. No, no one ever told him otherwise and the centipede ended up in the local high school science class. I have only seen one other one that big since then and yes, they do have a very wicked bite. I warned my wife when we got married that there wouldn't be very many dull moments and she can vouch for that even now.
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