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Brazilian Wandering Spider Trapped By Grocery Store Employee

By Liz Wolgemuth

Posted: March 18, 2009

A Tulsa, Okla., grocery store employee examining imported bananas reportedly encountered the world's deadliest spider Sunday--a Brazilian Wandering Spider--and then she trapped it.

And you thought your job was dangerous? (I can see it now: Grocery stores--the new setting for Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch.")

Check out this National Geographic segment for an upclose look at the deadly spiders:

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