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Little Miss Muffet Goes for a Drive

According to witnesses, an 18-year-old woman had just pulled up at a boat ramp in Rowland Reserve, NSW, Australia, when she jumped out of her car “and started doing a spider dance” — a “large” huntsman spider had crawled onto her lap. Huntsman spiders can bite, but their venom doesn’t harm healthy humans. Her car, meanwhile, kept rolling. “Her mum arrived about 15 minutes later and was freaking out because she thought her daughter was in the car,” Stuart Cooper said. “She was relieved when she saw her daughter sitting on the side of the boat ramp in tears.” By the time police arrived, the car had sunk about 25m (80 ft) from the beach and had to be towed back in. (MS/Surry Hills Daily Telegraph) ...There’s no word if the spider survived; her 2,000 children are continuing the search.