Meet The Man Who Found The World's Most Venomous Spider In A Bag Of Bananas That He Bought At A Local Supermarket

Spiders and other insects are the reason we keep the doors and windows closed at all times because nobody wants to wake up with a huge spider sitting on their face. That is my worst nightmare, and I'm sure it is for some of you as well.

Yet, there are people out there with pet tarantulas who love the way the spider feels when it crawls all over their bodies. I truly don't know how they do it or how they can love these hairy, creepy crawlies, but I guess every person has their own peculiar interests.

This man, however, didn't sign up for any spider babysitting duties when he received the surprise of his life while looking at his bunch of bananas. SWNS

This is 53-year-old Neil Langley, an office worker in the UK. He bought a bunch of bananas from Asda, a local supermarket, and got the surprise of a lifetime when he looked at the bananas while sitting at his desk and noticed something unusual about them.

He saw a spider lurking between the bananas that he had packaged himself the day before, and he was incredibly lucky that this spider didn't bite him. It turns out that this spider was one of the most venomous in the world: the wandering spider from Brazil, which is also known to inhabit Central America.

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"I bought a bunch of four or five bananas at ASDA and put them in a bag, but I didn’t notice the spider until I was at my desk the next day," Neil said.

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"It was in one of the clear bags you use for fruit, and it must have just woken up. I was lucky it hadn’t crawled out at home or in my work bag."

The spider caught Neil's attention from the corner of his eye, and when he looked closer, he thought it looked different from the spiders he normally sees in the UK, as it was larger and had a range of colors. With the help of his curious and somewhat frightened co-workers, he managed to get the spider into a plastic bag. They immediately began brainstorming about what to do with it.

"I didn’t really think that it was threatening, but some of my colleagues started to get a bit concerned about it."

"We weren’t sure what to do with it. We’re on the sixth floor, so it’s hard to know how to get rid of that sort of thing. At one stage, we discussed flushing it down the toilet, but that seemed a bit unfair to the poor thing," Neil said.

They eventually called the RSPCA to try to identify what type of spider it was. The RSPCA confirmed it was indeed a Brazilian wandering spider, known for its deadly neurotoxins that can kill a human. It is also known as the armed spider.

One bite from this spider will leave you struggling to breathe, losing control of all your muscles, experiencing extreme pain, and it will even give a man an uncomfortable erection for a few hours, so don't get any ideas!

What did they end up doing with the spider?

"Eventually, a colleague who is an animal lover put it in a cereal box and gave it to the RSPCA, who took it away," Neil said. "It must have made a difference to the cats and dogs they usually get called out to."

The world's most venomous spider now has a new home at the Bristol Zoo.