almost died yesterday

[Khronos]

silly cicadas.

4 of them did some crazy flight formation and attacked me while i was on my riding lawnmower.

i almost drove into the street while fending them off, right into the path of oncoming cars. :(

[Setari]

the first part made me giggle. but you're still alive though so there's no problem.

[EarlyDawn]

I'm glad you're okay :rofl: :rofl:

[Sputty]

You almost died because 4 bugs attacked you?
....

[Biohazzard56]

That sucks :( Damn those things, I wont even attempt to spell the name of that type of bug. They suck

[Everay]

but dude THEYRE HUGEEEEEEEEE!!!!

[Ivan]

You almost died cause 4 bugs attacked you?
....
No he almost died because when he was conducting evasive maneuvers to evade the attack squad of bugs, he stepped into traffic. :D

[Setari]

No he almost died because when he was conducting evasive maneuvers to evade the attack squad of bugs, he stepped into traffic. :D
nooo. he drove his riding lawnmower into traffic.

[Sputty]

No he almost died because when he was conducting evasive maneuvers to evade the attack squad of bugs, he stepped into traffic. :D
So..he almost died because he was scared of 4 bugs attacking him?...
that's even worse....
....

[Ivan]

:indeed: hehe :D

[JetRaiden]

I'm glad you're okay :rofl: :rofl:

[Rayder]

Why were you scared of them? They can't even bite you.

[OfaLoaf]

Cicada's do nothing to humans. Why worry about them? Wear a hat.

[Khronos]

they were nose diving for my face, its not that i was scared, its hard to drive a riding lawnmower with 4 bugs attached to your head.

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7831/cicadowned.jpg

[OfaLoaf]

:rofl: :lol: :rofl:


Wear a gas mask.



Thank God they haven't come out here yet...

[Khronos]

:rofl: :lol: :rofl:


Wear a gas mask.



Thank God they haven't come out here yet...

they are all over my yard, and i think the lawnmower noise attracts them :lol:

[Ivan]

aren't these the things that only come around every 75 years?

[OfaLoaf]

they are all over my yard, and i think the lawnmower noise attracts them :lol:
Yes, noise and heat attract them. Use a hand-push one with no motor and put Ice cubes all over you back.

[EarlyDawn]

:lol:

[Khronos]

aren't these the things that only come around every 75 years?

17 years ;)



and ofa haha that would take too long. i need to just be careful around the road ;)

[OfaLoaf]

You think I was joking?

[Khronos]

You think I was joking?

no.

[Jaged]

Cica-what? Never heard of those things. Thank god I have never seen one. They probably dont exist around here. :groovy:

[Electrofreak]

All I ever see is their huge-ass molt-skin things they leave attatched to the trees. You'll be walkin along and glance at a tree and be like HFS AHH WTF IS THAT?! And then you'll see that its just a cicada skin thats still clinging to the tree. Freaky.

On a related note, I was riding my mower the other day when a bee came after me, and I was zooming around in circles at 5th gear. My father later asked me why there were a series of loops and figure 8s in the lawn.
:lol:

Anyhow, glad to hear that you are ok.

[Triggar]

Florida's got some weird-ass mutant bugs, but thank GOD we don't have swarms of much around these parts.

[martyr]

that was actually attack pattern foxtrot-87.

diamond pattern, but rotating, and the flank ships dramatically and rapidly adjust relative altitude.

[ultraviolet]

Hey khronos, glad to hear you're okay! much :love:

[OfaLoaf]

that was actually attack pattern foxtrot-87.

diamond pattern, but rotating, and the flank ships dramatically and rapidly adjust relative altitude.
Oh noes! It's the Cicada-waffe (http://mail.chartermi.net/~mikekc/Cicada-waffe.jpg)!

[QuakCow]

O.o

[Khronos]

Oh noes! It's the Cicada-waffe (http://mail.chartermi.net/~mikekc/Cicada-waffe.jpg)!

hahaha :lol:

well we get cicadas every year, but mostly just the shells like what electrofreak said.

every 17 years, however, like seriously 5 billion come out of the ground and scream really loud and mate like crazy.

this is in ohio btw.

[Hezzy]

Get a rolled up newspaper. That should sort em out.

[Mag]

WD-40 and a lighter. Worked for me. (reference my avatar for the plan in action)

[Khronos]

WD-40 and a lighter. Worked for me. (reference my avatar for the plan in action)

haha my friends did that at the park.

hit a tree with a bat, cicadas flew out, burn.

[Neon Apocalypse]

i dont think we've got those over here...do we hamma?

never seen anything like that, not even at the zoo

[Rayder]

Because every 17 years they come out of the ground, mate, and die.

[Khronos]

Because every 17 years they come out of the ground, mate, and die.

what a life...

id wanna be one if it was 17 years of mating :brow:

[Onizuka-GTO]

So they live in the ground for 17yrs?!

[Indecisive]

I almost got rear ended by a mini van going 70 on a 45mph road while I was in my hoopty civic.

That would have ouched.

[Baneblade]

hahaha :lol:

well we get cicadas every year, but mostly just the shells like what electrofreak said.

every 17 years, however, like seriously 5 billion come out of the ground and scream really loud and mate like crazy.

this is in ohio btw.
Dude are you trying to make it look worse? Now we got you living in Ohio...:evil:

[Cyanide]

You need some of these (http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/misc/ef004ci2.htm) (cicada killer wasps) to counter the cicada attacks. Of course, having 2-3 inch long wasps might not be much better than cicadas. :D

[Infernus]

I thought cicadas were only dangerous if you swallowed them... other then the thudding against your back and such...

[Khronos]

I thought cicadas were only dangerous if you swallowed them... other then the thudding against your back and such...

they arent dangerous, people are eating them and stuff.

some people have phobias and this one lady wouldnt leave the supermarket because they were "flying around out front"

[Rayder]

Yar, I heard cicades taste good dipped in chocolate.

[Ivan]

Yar, I heard cicades taste good dipped in chocolate.
Saw that on Dave Letterman. They ate them all kinds of different ways.

[Kikinchikin]

dude i hate those things, they are so big and gross!

glad ur ok tho

[Khronos]

they are just like shellfish though.

one guy ate 30 of them, and because he was allergic to shellfish he almost died. Had to go to the emergency room.

The wings are poisonous i think..but not anything else.

i would eat one but i dont like the crunch.

[AztecWarrior]

1. Purchase a shotgun. I recommend a single-shot, over-under, or side-by-side, something that you can load each shell individually into. This magazine is good: http://www.shotgunnews.com/
2. Purchase shotgun shells for your ammunition of choice.
3. Aquire sand, dirt, salt, or some other fine granulated solid.
4. Open the shells (try not to use a metal knife to do this, as you may spark the gunpowder somehow and release lead into your face) from the paper end, dump out the pellets but keep the gunpowder.
5. Pour in the granulous solid. You now have an anti-insect shell. You will need to re-close the shell. Or you can not.
NOTE: Do NOT mix up anti-insect and normal shells.
6. Load anti-insect shell into firearm and fire at cicadas, especially swarms. Do NOT fire in the direction of humans or at anything you don't want damaged. DO NOT ATTEMPT A "Hostage rescue" if a cicada lands on another person.
7. Watch them drop like flies....er....cicadas being shot down by clouds of sand going at extreme velocities.

NOTE: I made this up right now and do not know if it actually works. It probably doesn't. DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS, ESPECIALLY IF YOU DON'T WANT POLICE ASKING YOU QUESTIONS. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU FUCK UP.

[Mr1337Duck]

I'm gonna do it!

:D

[AztecWarrior]

I'm gonna do it!

:D
Please don't. How can I put this: I saw it in a movie. A bad one, too. A spanish film about some retarded kid who is a fuckup at life. He dies.

Basically, some kids are having a gang fight in Andalucia or some shitty Spanish place like that. Gang fight as in 1900s style, with muskets. Adults try to stop it. They come in a paddle boat down the river with muskets loaded with salt.

It gives the kids severe abrasions.

And the kids fire real bullets back.

THAT WAS THE ONLY FUN PART OF THE FILM!

[Hamma]

silly cicadas.

4 of them did some crazy flight formation and attacked me while i was on my riding lawnmower.

i almost drove into the street while fending them off, right into the path of oncoming cars. :(
doh, hat ewhen that happens :(

[1024]

i told you to take pics. wth?

[Onizuka]

Hamma is drunk.

[Hamma]

uh, no.

[Onizuka-GTO]

Hamma is drunk.

But then so are you. All the time.

*stuff a bottle of Vodka down onizuka throat*

:love:

P.S: I love the way vodka doesn't freeze in the er...freezer.
*just discovered this wonderful thing*
For the motherland!
:lol:

[Onizuka]

P.S: I love the way vodka doesn't freeze in the er...freezer.
*just discovered this wonderful thing*
For the motherland!
:lol:

Just discovered? lol, indeed, for the motherland.

[Lonehunter]

Me and a couple of my friends payed a Stoner that we know $20 to eat one of those things. He bit the bottom half off, and it still vibrated in his mouth. He was laughing the whole time as he finished it off. He was kinda, out of it too. Never got sick either. Another fun bug to play with is a June bug, those things have decent size and are great to throw on somebody.

[Khronos]

i told you to take pics. wth?

my dad cant find the digi cam and the camcorder takes crappy pictures...ill take a pic of a tree with liek 41904809 of them in there.

[Lonehunter]

ill take a pic of a tree with liek 41904809 of them in there.
I bet he is seriously not exagerating

[ZeusCali]

DO NOT ATTEMPT A "Hostage rescue" if a cicada lands on another person.
:rofl: hostage rescue hehehehe, sorry i just thought that part was funny, so are these cicad things locust?

[Heavygain]

so that was the thing that jumped out of its skin and i stabbbed cause i thought it was trying to take over my body!


them fuckers are scary

[Lartnev]

One of the great things about England is the lack of seriously large bugs. I mean the odd large spider which has to be tackled using the vacuum cleaner is of course common, but nothing the size (or number) of cicadas :D

[ViperGTS]

Are they any thing like those egyption scarbs? Gettring inside your skin and eating your face?

[Dharkbayne]

Are they any thing like those egyption scarbs? Gettring inside your skin and eating your face?

THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**


SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**

[scarpas]

i dont know wether to fall down laughing or to feel sorry for you...


but yeah, im in nm, so there are tons of cicadas out here, about a month ago one smaked into my face as i was biking, and it felt like a rock out of a slingshot, knocked me off my bike.

[AztecWarrior]

THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**


SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
:rofl:

[Wraithlord]

THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**


SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[JetRaiden]

Are they any thing like those egyption scarbs? Gettring inside your skin and eating your face?
:rolleyes:

uh yea, what Dhark said.

[BUGGER]

U drove into the road on a lawnmower....unless that thing got a hemi, how long is your reaction when you hit the sidewalk?


Btw, my friend just last week got into his 7th car crash this year, dont talk to me about dieing....he'd make it through 7 lawnmower crashes before he dies.

[Khronos]

theres no sidewalk before the road..

well there is, but after the sidewalk is a strip of grass with 2 small trees lined up in it. (city planted them for us to take care of..)

i was driving toward the road while about to turn right to cut around the tree when the cicadas "attacked".
i couldnt turn cause they were doing their flight formation at my face, and when I stopped fending them off my left front tire was over the edge of the curb. i just backed up after that, but it could have been worse i spose.

[Onizuka-GTO]

THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**
THE MUMMY IS NOT A REALISTIC MOVIE **SMACK**


SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**
SCARABS DO NOT CRAWL UNDER YOUR SKIN AND EAT YOUR FLESH **SMACK**

:rolleyes:

[1024]

what happened to the tornado?

[Khronos]

there were bad storms but no tornado around here..

:love:

[Jennyboo]

Glad to know your not dead and your ok

[Mag-Mower]

I would have ran away from the lawn mower! even if it did drive into oncoming traffic! at least i would be safe