Beware the butt biting spider!!!

OMG!!!! The butt biting spider (arachnius gluteus) (clue) is back!! Never pee in the dark again! Lift the loo lid for a look!

According to Facebook this butt biting spider is back, and attacking backsides. And people are dying, for crap's sake! The highly toxic poison kills you...but it takes three or four days before it kills yo' ass (clue).

Well...no. The fake news reports are so laughable it ain't funny. The hoax has been going around since 1999 according to snopes and there are changes with each iteration. Reading the "news" piece you see that the airport in Chicago is "Blare" (clue) airport and...there is no such airport. There is no "Journal of the United Medical Association" (clue).

Sigh. Some easy ways to tell if something is fact or fiction is pretty easy--Google something in the piece you want to share...in this case how about Googling butt spider...see, I made it even easier with a link. If you see this piece of crap on Facebook, click the article or photo and read some of the comments and you will generally see that people who think have pointed out that the piece is a hoax.

It doesn't add to one's credibility rating to post these warnings as truth...it can take less than a minute in most cases to check. Like the boy who cried wolf too many times, people will stop listening to you.

But! Beware the butt biting boa...


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