Wednesday, September 14, 2005
(7:15 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
The blog of my dreams
Ted Koppel was doing a children's special. He was highlighting how sometimes, if you had a camera running, you could catch things, upon reviewing the footage, that you normally wouldn't notice. For instance, he was standing in a field, an open area in a camp ground, surrounded by little girls. He had a tarantula crawling on his hand and said that we wouldn't have even noticed this tarantula if we hadn't been taping. He had a little box with a little opening, and the tarantula kept trying to squeeze in, but it was only crushing its own head; Ted Koppel pointed out that the tarantula was harmless because all it wanted to do was crush its own head.I was watching this whole thing, wearing the standard kahkis and polo shirt that I always wore to work, and I told Ted Koppel that it wasn't safe and that he needed to stomp the tarantula. I demonstrated by jumping into the air and stomping with both feet. He decided to let it go and let me handle killing it, but the tarantula was extremely fast. I jumped probably about 30 feet, which was really pushing it in terms of my jumping ability, but by that time, the tarantula had already gotten to the road at the edge of the field. I didn't think I could jump far enough to stomp it, so I said it was just as well because it would have messed up my shoes anyway.
