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Cyclone-Bill

There’s a spider in my tv.

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I mean, I don’t know what else to say. There’s this little spider zipping around inside my tv. It’s in-between the front panel and the LCD/LED cells or whatever they’re called. It seems to have got in and now can’t find its way back out,

I’m thinking it’ll probably die within a few days, but I don’t want to wake up tomorrow and there’s webs all over my tv, or there’s thousands of eggs in the back of my tv like at the end of Godzilla. Anyone got any ideas?

Video: https://youtu.be/GI70dBw-BoE

Also I’m fully aware this is hilarious 🕷

Posted Sep 25, 2018, 6:47 PM UTC

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Linuxllc•

I was waiting for you to play Spiderman on your PS4.

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DragonRaptor•

Just play a BBC video on spiders, those spiders will scare that spider away. it's either that, or you just take your TV apart to get him out.

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me_irl_mods_suck_ass•

You just need another spider, with a string on it. The first spider will become dependent on the new spider. Once that happens you pull out the second spider and the first spider will come out looking for it.

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MurderShovel•

Only if OP is in Philadelphia.

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exempt1993•

I LOVE YOU

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Dan50thAE•

Hitchcock's "The Birds"

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DragonRaptor•

Then you'll need a cat

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Rasalom•

"Looks like I found the spider orgy!!"

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Dat_Way_•

Collect all infinity stones, snap your fingers, maybe it disappears ???

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buttonmasher525•

r/unexpectedthanos

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sfmarkh•

Maybe you 2 can share the TV. I've been living with a spider in my shower for about a year. It's nice to have someone to talk to.

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Dat_Way_•

Oof buddy. I am...so sorry

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staleydude•

r/expectedthanos

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nSirmountable•

r/thanosdidnothingwrong

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-notsopettylift3r-•

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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[deleted]•

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dragnmastr85•

Don't smoosh it. Hope it dies in the bezel. If it dies in view, take it apart and get rid of it.

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Cyclone-BillOP•

I think this is the only reasonable course of action.

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SteeleDuke•

The BEST course of action is wait until its out of the noticeable lcd portion of the screen, get some bug spray, and spray inside the bezel of the tv, just to make sure eggs don't hatch.

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dragnmastr85•

Bug sprays can be caustic and will almost definitely blur the screen. This is a really bad idea.

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SteeleDuke•

Not on the screen but a small amount angled towards the back if the bezels well not hurt the lcd. Just don't go ape shit with it, I've done it many times in IT.

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Ramce05•

Then ants will smell its carcass and build their own base in OPs TV.

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queBurro•

This is how that anteater got in that 32" crt isn't it? Op needs to think carefully about this

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Silasco•

This post reminded me if that post here a while back where someone's monitor had ants in it. Were you referencing it?

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dragnmastr85•

So put an ant trap near the TV.

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NoMoreSyntaxErrors•

I was about to say you probably have a very minor LCD crack but no

You have an actual fucking spider in your TV.

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jrdbrn•

Have you tried turning off and on again?

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diazepamkit•

ticket status: closed

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Wildfires•

Looks like your system has a bug ,OP

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bigganya•

a real one

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ptowner7711•

Hey, this happened to me! Kinda.

https://old.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/7dacl6/this_is_a_weird_one_ant_in_monitor_dont_know_how/

It was an ant. Basically had to find some dude in another state willing to disassemble my PC monitor to retrieve the offender. I wish you luck. Maybe it'll die and fall into the bezel area.

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Iambuddd•

goes over to find top comment and take credit on this post

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Sorry_Sorry_Im_Sorry•

I remember reading that post. It gave me a good laugh at the time.

... Sorry...

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_NSoma•

Same here LOL. Seems more common than i thought. Mine just scaped by itself or something.

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Crimfresh•

I think the only proper move is to put a bird in the TV to get the spider.

Keep a cat on deck in case the bird gets stuck.

If the cat gets stuck, send a dog in next.

This worked wonders for a little old lady I've heard tales of.

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HenryChatwin•

I guess she'll die though

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Crimfresh•

Nah, she got a horse and was fine, of course.

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paint_the_town_pink•

This needs more upvotes

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Cyclone-BillOP•

Yeah, but what do I send in after the dog? A bigger dog. Clearly you haven't thought this plan through.

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Crimfresh•

A horse of course.

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Leyzr•

it's a jumper! Poor little dude, they're so cool :(
Hopefully it can find a way out, otherwise they dont make web for a nest, they prefer to hunt, so you probably wont have an issue with that.

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Cyclone-BillOP•

Yeah, I'm no fan of spiders, but this thing is tiny and weirdly cute. I really hope he gets out.

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72APTU72E•

It's getting colder in a lot of areas, I too have noticed a jumper inside my home this week, they like the warmth.

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Distryer•

The only way to deal with this issue is kill it with fire.

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Ramce05•

That'll take too long. Grab a sledgehammer and bash the spider while its visible in the screen

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Distryer•

Compromise light the sledgehammer on fire then smite the beast.

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arnoldwhat•

I have nothing helpful to say, but perhaps a quick story to make you feel a little better.

My ex purchased a new car. The dash/ventilation was loaded with spiders. Luckily they were very small and non threatening so no accidents were had, but still kinda weird trying to figure out where spiders fit in to warranty coverage.

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Sachmo78•

A friend of mine had a nasty smell from her jeep Cherokee. Dealer, multiple shops, couldn't figure it out. Finally, one shop said to put in an insurance claim.

They tore the interior out to find a dead mouse in the headliner.

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Alacritous•

Sounds like a Foothold Situation to me.

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TiagoTiagoT•

Perhaps get a subwoofer very close to the screen and leave some random bassy music playing loud on loop, and hope the vibrations are enough to make the spider consider moving elsewhere?

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Interator•

Get a 5mW laser pointer from ebay/online sites. You need to find the correct balance of reputable/shady. Now, 5 mW won't do anything, but some manufacturers aren't careful, and eager to cut costs, they don't really bring the power down to 5 mW. Some can reach up to 70mW, quite powerful enough to burn a hole in paper/your retina/a spider stuck in a tv.

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TiagoTiagoT•

Not to mention the screen itself...

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popsiclestand•

Just lay it down on a table with blankets/towels and start taking off screws they all should be easy to take apart.

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awrinkle1•

I wanted to be sure someone else said it before commenting. Tvs now-days are very straight forward. Take your time and make sure you know where each screw goes. Don’t do anything you’re not comfortable doing either. But, I’ve taken a tv apart 100% and put it back together, if you’re paying attention, you’ll be fine.

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CaptOblivious•

take a piece of cardboard the shape of your tv, and put the screws in the cardboard in the places they came from on the TV, that way the exact same size screws go back in the same size holes.

I also recommend taking LOTS of pictures with your phone while dissembling, nothing like not being able to figure out where that weird piece came from, or how it goes back.

You CAN do this OP, Good luck and goodspeed.

EDIT: added an "h"

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morepowertoshields•

Leave him there as a Halloween prop! 😂

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paint_the_town_pink•

This reminds me of when I was little. We won one of those huge big screen TVs. I'm talking huge all around. Anyway, one day, my sister and I were watching TV and we just saw tons of black dots scurrying across the screen. We get closer to see what the dots were and to our horror, realized that these little dots were fucking baby spiders. Yeah, a spider(s) laid eggs in the TV and they hatched. I remember just screaming at the top of my lungs. I think my dad got them out by taking apart the TV and vacuuming them up. This is like a projection kind of TV and it looked extremely complicated. When we put the TV back together again, something happened and I just remember that we couldn't ever turn the TV off or something would happen to the picture and we'd have to turn the TV on and off again over and over until the picture came back.

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FangFingersss•

I assume you’re talking about a rear projection

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paint_the_town_pink•

Yup! That's what it was

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Cyclone-BillOP•

Thank you for taking what I thought was a far-fetched endgame for this scenario and making it really fucking real.

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paint_the_town_pink•

I don't know how much space a spider needs to do that, but as I said this was an old big screen TV and it had a lot of empty space inside of it. I don't think it would be able to do that in a flat screen TV.

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Le_phant•

Coworker had this happen. The cost to have someone disassemble his TV was more than the TV so he ended up just upgrading to a new one. Good luck. Shop around, ymmv.

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Bazzatron•

If you can get the nozzle of some air-spray (canned compressed air for cleaning electronics) you might be able to blast him outta there?

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cmon_now•

What's the life cycle of a jumping spider? Let him die and he'll eventually fall to the bottom

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