A father from Australia has received praise for his brave actions in capturing a huntsman Spider with just his hands.
TikTok shared a video on Saturday of Stephen Walker finding the animal in his home.
The footage shows the spider crawling along the wall. Stephen then casually approaches the spider to catch him by wrapping his arms around him.
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Video captured the shocking moment that an Australian father caught a Huntsman Spider with just his naked hands
In a Saturday video, Stephen Walker (Australian actor) caught a huntsman Spider with just his naked hands.
Stephen did not seem to be bothered by this spider, which ran off from his hands.
Stephen was then freed by the spider and it ran up Stephen’s arm.
He was calm, however, as he captured the spider again in his hands, but this time with tighter grips.
Stephen was astonished by the calmness of his viewers. They said that if they found him, they would panic and run.
One commenter said, “He just said that he would catch that spider’ mate (if I saw that I was running to Africa (sic)”)”
Actor was calm, though. He re-captured his spider with an even tighter grip.
Stephen was astonished by the calmness of his viewers. They said that if they found him, they would panic and run.
‘I’m in Australia and I still sh** my pants when I see a spider 5x smaller than that,’ another person said.
Another joked, “Where is the vacuum cleaner mom?”
Another said, “That’s an daredevil move.”
He uploaded video that showed other huntsman spiders larger than he was and quickly maintained his cool.