what critter scares you the most?

[ChickenZombie]

Headcrabs....

 

[tahrey]

Excellent another anti-chav. A couple other UK Escapists were contemplating the formation of an army of chav-hunters (i.e. going around the UK with cricket bats, shotguns and flamethrowers, taking glee in their suffering wherever we roam)... are you interested?

Nah, I do tend to find that if I leave them alone, they don't really start much. A bit like wasps.

Though I wouldn't mind equipping myself with whatever the chav equivalent of a can of Raid is, just for the times when one or two of them have had a little too much White Lightning (or half-rotten fermented fruit ... same thing in the end) and decide to kick off.
(I suppose the easy answer to "what could that be?" is some kind of pepper spray. But a bottle of expensive scrumpy or real ale with a mister on top might work just as well?)

 

[kayisking]

I have a phobia of bee's, wasp's, hornet's and pretty much anything else with a big needle sticking out of it's arse.

 

[DirtyMagic]

Bugs in general scare the shit out of me, but there's a few animals that are just so balls-out insane that they shouldn't exist in nature.

My friends, I present to you: the pistol shrimp.

What the motherfuck is that?!

"Hey, I'm a pistol shrimp. My superpower is IMITATING THE SUN."

 

[Dags90]

Blue Ring Octopus is a scary *****, kills you in minutes from touching you and there is no anti-venom (also found in Australia) and it is only 10ish centimeters wide (including tentacles).

You don't strictly need anti-venom, you just need breathing support. It's a voluntary muscle paralytic, as long as you have something (or someone) to breath for you, you're fine.

I would go with the largest member of the small cat family, the puma. Its lack of a hyoid bone won't keep it from killing you.

 

[Brainsaw]

Not so scary....unless you run into them while in the water. Then they're fucking terrifying.

 

[Underground Man]

I am actually fine with insects and all manner of beast. I even used to keep roaches as pets. Heh...

But, for the love of all that is good and pure on this earth, keep those disgusting silverfish away from me. And earwigs. Oh god, the butt pincers....

 

[-Drifter-]

Scorpions. Mother fucking scorpions. If there's one species that has no reason to live(besides humans), and i'd happily have exterminated, it'd be scorpions.

Why? They're not particularly dangerous. Sure, it'd suck to be stung by one, but the chances of that sting actually killing you are practically non-existent.

Oh, and bears scare me, polar bears in particular.

How dare you. Bears are awesome.

They may seem awesome and cute at first, but remember: This is a giant, 1000+ pound pile of fat, fur, muscle, claws and, most importantly, teeth!

TEETH!

 

[Gaiseric]

The critter that scares me the most are Critters from the movie Critters.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

Jellyfish. I grew up along the coast, and I hate these things. The ones in my area aren't particularly dangerous. I've been stung before. Sometimes I would swim through a small bit of tentacles and not notice I had been stung until a half hour later, but even the stingless ones make me nervous. Man-o-wars are enough to make me leave the beach. Fuck those evil blue bastards. I live around alligators and jellyfish still freak me out more. Although I've never swam with an alligator in the water, so that might just be a lack of experience.

I also hate ticks more than I probably should.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

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Just imagine this thing if it was six feet long. Fuck everything if that happens.

Shit it's disabled, well it was one of those giant centipedes that can pretty much kill and eat any small animal, even snakes.

 

[fooddood3]

This ************:

The Coconut Crab. Frankly, if I found one of these things anywhere near my house, I'd be packed and moved out immediately, with a curt nod to the thing as I left it the deed to the property and took off down the street crying like a little girl.

Better than standing up to it and being savaged to death.

That reminds me of a pretty traumatic experience. I spent a few years living down in Florida, and it was pretty nice. Unfortunately, a few days prior, a pet-smuggling ring had been busted. In an attempt to get rid of evidence, the smugglers released all the animals. I woke up one morning, went into the bathroom, and wouldn't you know it, one of those motherfuckers was crawling around on my toilet. It was honest to God, the closest I've ever been to shitting myself. I slammed the door shut and called animal control, but they didn't have any equipment to catch something like that. We ended up waiting outside the bathroom for like an hour until some people from a nearby marine biology institute came and got it out. I don't live in Florida any more.