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Subject: [OM] Re: Training Spiders
From: JOHN DUGGAN <john.duggan10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:47:26 +0100 (BST)
Hi all,
      This gem came from a microscopy group I belong to, as a result of a 
discussion on how to
photograph small insects etc,
 Thought it might raise a chuckle or two...remind me NEVER to try this at 
home...

 
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> I gave up cooling reptiles in the fridge, many, many years ago following an 
> unfortunate
> accident. 
> As a boy (about 15) in the late 1950s I captured a large female Adder, Vipera 
> berus, which I
> proudly took home to photograph with my newly acquired Corfield 2 1/4" square 
> SLR, A large box
> shaped device, but my pride and joy at the time. My father, ever ready to 
> indulge his son,
> agreed to help control the snake and to keep it in frame for my pictures. We 
> put the now very
> annoyed snake in a pillowcase into the fridge to cool down whilst I set up 
> the equipment. We had
> some south-facing stone steps in the garden, and as I needed lots of light 
> for the slow black &
> white film I was using, they seemed the best "stage" for photographing the 
> snake in the bright
> midday sun. I set up the tripod, careful chose the best lens etc. and then 
> got the snake from
> the fridge, Oh horror, it was almost comatose and lay on the stone looking 
> quite dead. However
> the heat from the sun and the hot stone affected a remarkable recovery but 
> the snake gave no
> indication of this until my father in response to a request from me to 
> reposition the "dead"
> snake for a better shot, tried to move it. With lightning speed it erupted 
> into action, bit his
> thumb and disappeared into the flower bed.
> There was much panic and shouting, "the bl**dy boy and his dangerous hobbies" 
> seemed to feature
> quite often I remember. Meanwhile Dad's hand started to swell and his thumb 
> went black. The good
> news is that following a visit to the local hospital and a few days in bed, 
> my father fully
> recovered to recount the story of how his firstborn tried to kill him for 
> many, many years!
> Since then I have always used glass tanks and patience rather than the fridge.
> Of course it was not the cooling in the fridge that was the problem, it was 
> the warming on a hot
> stone and carelessness on our part.


Regards
  John Duggan,
     Wales, UK

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