Eight Legged Freaks vs Your Town

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-08-18 11:02pm

Hmm. I couldnt decide what forum to put this in, so I just settled on Fantasy, since it wasn't tech based. I haven't seen the movie, so I have no idea except the basic premise of it. Pretty much, what would happen if giant spiders somehow existed, and appeared in your town during:

1. Midnight
2. Noon
3. Rush hour

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-18 11:30pm

We have an air force base. Methinks we survive with minimal damage except at midnight.

~ver

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-08-19 12:41pm

Jadeite wrote:Hmm. I couldnt decide what forum to put this in, so I just settled on Fantasy, since it wasn't tech based. I haven't seen the movie, so I have no idea except the basic premise of it. Pretty much, what would happen if giant spiders somehow existed, and appeared in your town during:

1. Midnight
2. Noon
3. Rush hour

8-Legged Freaks is a very good monster movie, especially if you're a secret fan of the old 1950's bug movies

Like "Scary Movie", it's both a homage and a sly parody of that movie genre.

Now, to the question:
1) The spide4rs would take over, because at Midnight this town is shut up tight... especially if it's a Sunday night

2) Noon.. we'd have the Natl. Guard out and the local AirGuard doing flyovers.

3) There would be the biggest traffic jam ever seen.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-08-19 01:34pm

The spiders would up and leave and head off to Newcastle, where there are at least a few things to make webs on - seriously - they could try and make webs in the copse in the town centre, but to be honest, they'd get mobbed by thousands of crows - chance of survival - limited.

They come down our end of town and they get the run of the place, probably wiping out a good portion of the charva population who hang around in underpasses late at night - if they try it in the village centre on Friday night, then they may be given a run for their money by glass bottle wielding drunks - hey, it worked in Return of the King.

The spiders may get knackered trying to chase people in cars up and down the hills, and frankly, if people can make it to the A19, then they can make a clean getaway, possibily even looping back round for a 120mph kamikaze run into spider central.

However, in daylight, the spiders undoing shall come from the many DIY shops, when armadas of schoolchildren, shop workers and insurance salesmen armed with cans of RAID advance upon the spider hordes.

But police? army? The nearest RAF base is Boulmer, approx 50 miles I think, the local police station is shut at nights, the nearest army training center that I know of is the Otterburn Range - another 60 miles in the opposite direcion, and who knows where the nearest Navy base is - although we have a few coast guard royal navy ships moored in the Tyne - only 10 miles away, but still not much sodding good against a spider horde.

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2003-08-19 02:38pm

Since i have a gun shop right behind my house, where a lot of the weapons are stuff like M-1 Garands, M-14, AR-15, and all sorts of heavy calibre weapons, the spiders can say good game. Heh. They even have a K98 Mauser.

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2003-08-19 02:40pm

I could also drive to Elgin and convince my Supply Sergeant to let me borrow a few M-16s and M-249s. Too bad it's like, 30 miles away.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2003-08-19 03:03pm

Pittsburgh is chalk full of hunters. If we could hold out until morning for the midnight scenario, things would be a'ok.

jinx · Post by **jinx** » 2003-08-19 03:50pm

something tells me our town would get mostly p0ned. the locals would be too stupid to know someting was wrong untill it was too late, & the cops around here lack the experience to deal with run of the mill murders let alone gient spiders. our last bastion of hope whould be those who manage to make it to the wal-mart, where they have a large section full of "hunting" equipment (100 ft from the toy isle BTW). between the large amount of hillbillys & geeks (the only people mentaly equiped to deal with the situation) we could hold off the spider onslought till the national guard came in to rescue the survivors.

Sporkzen · Post by **Sporkzen** » 2003-08-19 05:11pm

My town would wipe the floor with the spiders. (Huntsville, Al.)

we got an army base, missle defence command, plenty of gangs in the southwest, and it is alabama so there are plenty of crazy drunk armed rednecks only place we would take losses is hte rich part of town

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-08-19 07:26pm

I would drive to Buffalo, where the Spider problem would be dealt with in short order...if the spiders didn't just decide that we would manage to wipe ourselves out and just leave it alone.

Yes I fully believe that should an 'Independance Day' like event occur, Buffalo will be left alone because the aliens would decide that it wasn't worth the time it would take to destroy the city.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-08-19 07:31pm

Solid Snake wrote:Since i have a gun shop right behind my house, where a lot of the weapons are stuff like M-1 Garands, M-14, AR-15, and all sorts of heavy calibre weapons, the spiders can say good game. Heh. They even have a K98 Mauser.

Actually, if we disregard the idiocy of 8 foot wide spiders with scaled-up versions of their agility, speed, and resilience, you would have a very hard time killing one with 7.62mm small-arms fire. A spider can take punishment relative to its size that beggars the imagination. Even if you could mortally wound it with such a weapon, it would still catch and kill you before it died.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-08-19 07:35pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Solid Snake wrote:Since i have a gun shop right behind my house, where a lot of the weapons are stuff like M-1 Garands, M-14, AR-15, and all sorts of heavy calibre weapons, the spiders can say good game. Heh. They even have a K98 Mauser.
Actually, if we disregard the idiocy of 8 foot wide spiders with scaled-up versions of their agility, speed, and resilience, you would have a very hard time killing one with 7.62mm small-arms fire. A spider can take punishment relative to its size that beggars the imagination. Even if you could mortally wound it with such a weapon, it would still catch and kill you before it died.

Hence why I'm glad in chemical valley... We just have to make the stupid things rush the wrong container..

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2003-08-19 09:28pm

All times:
In the middle of winter, they'd all freeze (the joys of living in Southern Ontario)

Midnight
They'd eat all the drunks downtown, drink all the bars dry, and pass out

Okay seriously, midnight, they'd probably do alot of damage downtown, and take out the few 10+ story buildings, however, they'd be facing serious problems at the two GM plants in town. I can imagine that some of those metal stamping machines would do to those things

Noon
Hard to say. I'd be moving into the main sewer tunnel and walking home that way (and if they are in the sewer, meh, I tried)

More then likely, if they hit down town at noon, they'd get mob rushed by stoned teenagers. I'd make sure of that

They'd also probably eat all the middle-aged woman that work in the office buildings. I'll go down to the mail processing room and hide in the armored car (the joy of working in the Ministry of Finance).

Rush Hour
Bug's would be getting squished by the cars. the Motorists in this town or nuts.

If I was at home when this happened, I'd grab my swords and go hide. They can have my cat. I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-08-19 10:26pm

Lets see, a city of 1 million, right in the heart of Texas, weapons everywhere, 2 or 3 airforce bases and an army fort, against a meaasly horde of large super spiders? pffft.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-08-19 10:51pm

I dunno. Old marginally used airforce base and norad station both about 2-5 miles from town and lots of hicks with guns as a plus. Tiny idiotic population as a minus. I'd say 2 out of the 4 towns in the 4 towns region die the other two incur massive dammage before aircraft and hill billys can do the spider horde in.

Stormin · Post by **Stormin** » 2003-08-19 10:56pm

I get on a boat and go out into deep water to wait it out.

Sektor31 · Post by **Sektor31** » 2003-08-19 11:48pm

In NYC, the hunters become the hunted.

Midnight: Webs Square!

Noon: A force greater than or equal to what appeared on 9-11, combined with the general military, would kill off the oversized hairy things.

Rush hour: At first, massive genocide, then what I mentioned at Noon happens.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-08-20 12:13am

This is Tasmania, its nothing unusual. We smile, we nod, and we go about out business like nothing is out of the ordinary.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-08-20 12:15am

I live close to Kennesaw, the last place that will be taken when the EU superstate invades (every household is required to own a gun by law), so I should be OK.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-08-20 03:57am

Durran Korr wrote:I live close to Kennesaw, the last place that will be taken when the EU superstate invades (every household is required to own a gun by law), so I should be OK.

Assuming your small-arms fire can knock down an eight foot jumping spider that can cover 50 feet with a single leap before it kills you.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-08-20 10:18am

Hmm... well... my town should be alright for a little while, but I won't, mostly because I live right near downtown... I think there might be an M-60 or two at the local national gaurd, but I really doubt it. I think those got moved elsewhere...

I think I'll just be draging my canoe down to the pond behind my house with some food and sunscreen and waiting for somebody else to deal with it, methinks.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-08-20 10:29am

I have a full detachment of Seeb's right behind my back door with the full detatchment worth of equipment, As a matter of fact yesterday as I was passing by their little compounded several of them were out on the benchs cleaning and polishing the m-60s
NTM the Army matains a small armored company depot somewhere around here + the Naval Air Station home to some of the Best Navy and Air-force pilots, the instructor school for said pilots, and the fact we have a nice repair shop for all sorts of planes(Inculding the A-10 of which I belive we maintain a full squadron or two here)

So we have everything from heavy machineguns to A-10s with a few Abams tossed into the mix

I think we are good to go

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2003-08-20 03:25pm

They would take over my small town no matter what time it is. The cops have nearly no experience (they're bored out of their minds most of the time. One time when I was a little kid my mom thought there was somebody breaking into our house and called the cops. There were like, three cop cars at our house in a few minutes). And as many weirdos are here, there's a surprisingly low number of guns as far as I know. Most seem to prefer knives.

Anyway, the only unique thing about this town is that the residents have come very close to randomly bursting out into song more than once.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-08-20 03:51pm

Adlington would be screwed. Seriously, we have no guns outside of air rifles, the village is made up of houses, roads, fields a few shops, and 2 pubs. On the plus side, a load of scallies get killed.

Skelron · Post by **Skelron** » 2003-08-21 02:03am

The_Lumberjack wrote:The spiders would up and leave and head off to Newcastle, where there are at least a few things to make webs on - seriously - they could try and make webs in the copse in the town centre, but to be honest, they'd get mobbed by thousands of crows - chance of survival - limited.
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Where are from, as I'm a Boro Boy and I was wondering.

Now for Middlesbrough Midnight, hah they get cahsed off by the Drunken Townies and the fights outside Bars, unless it's Thursday or Wednessday night then they have to wait till Two Am.

Now during Rush Hour they have the run of the place as long as they avoid the Crossroads, when they are in serious trouble.

Army who needs an Army we have Ray mallan 'Robo-Cop' for our Town Mayor he chases them of with his Zero Tolerance policys.

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