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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Martin Oosthuysen" data-source="post: 39746" data-attributes="member: 1070">They react super fast,I was just looking up Haplopelma Hainanum on YouTube couldn't believe what I saw actual handling wow now that was a shock. Imagine a youngster seeing that since YouTube is very impressionable,it being THE MOST venomous tarantula and thinking oh he did it let me try. I have guts,I have worked with venomous specimens of snakes but I haven't played Russian roulette and said let's spin the fang and pull the trigger. Okay sounded better in my head,haha. Some of the things I have seen so far,just makes me wonder what bites have occurred but not documented. These Asian ones hit fast,and hard with a venom to back it up. Making a video of say 11 seconds for so called quick fame,and maybe having pain and very bad repercussions for weeks just doesn't add up.</blockquote>