Week 8 Results

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This is in your average coffin, so it's not going to be roomy accomodations. Sure, it can be cushioned if you want, but just imagine the implications of being trapped with five BATS - which will be wanting to fly - in a coffin. And the spiders would be no picnic either.

Do you have a quarter handy? Well that's the approximate size of one of these spider's body (not including the legs). 50 of THOSE. $12.50 worth.

The spiders aren't poisonous, that would just be too cruel.

By "vampire bats" I don't mean bats that will turn into vampires or anything else supernatural, I simply mean the species of bat that is referred to as the vampire bat. I suppose these bats do have teeth though - they don't call 'em "vampire bats" for nothing.

You're not going to suffocate or anything, air CAN get in. But there is no little window on the coffin or anything, it's totally dark.

Being trapped in the coffin implies that you CAN'T just lift the lid up and get out.

If this question doesn't make your skin crawl, what will? I mean, I just set out TEN quarters, and I can't stand it!

You don't have to carry each situation to its ultimate terminus and say "I'd die either way because I'm trapped forever." Just assume that you are trapped for a long time, but not necessarily forever. Not long enough so that issues such as lack of food or water become an issue.

Name: Josh Branham
Choice: Bats
Comments: Eventually, the bats would get tired of trying to fly and go to sleep. They would die of starvation much like I wouyld if I were indefinately trapped in a coffin so it really doesn't matter anyway. Spiders, however, would just keep moving forever because they can go weeks without food. Besides, five is a lot less than fifty.

Name: Scott "The Skunk" Galbraith
Choice: Bats
Comments: I'd have to say bats because I hate spiders profusely. I assume that this coffin is for unnatural use (I'm probably not dead, in that case I would go with the spiders to give the discoverers of my coffin a scare when they open the lid and find spiders crawling out of my nose). So my reason is crude and I'm ashamed to have to admit it and have it available for public quote. Here it is anyway: I pick the bats so I can fart (not such a glamorous word) until they all die and then I can lie alive in peace. By the way, can air get out?

Name: John "I haven't an ass" Taylor
Choice: Spiders
Comments: I would like apologize to all involved for a long absence on my part. No Kevin I have not forgotten about your page... Due to a nuclear meltdown my computer is now inoperable(sp?) after just one year of use. Well I would just like to say that I would have to choose the spiders because I think that I could deal with that problem rather quickly. As the spiders crawled on me I would whack them with my hand so they wouldn't crawl on me anymore. After 30 minutes I bet I could kill them all. However with the bats I would have to deal with a lot of blood and that would just get down right messy.

Name: devang
Choice: Spiders
Comments: Bats hunt in the dark, thats scary, spiders can be squashed....thats a lot of spiders though

Name: ryan
Choice: Bats
Comments: man, i hate spiders, especially big ones, and those are big enough, i would take my chances with the bats

Name: dayna
Choice: Bats
Comments: i think that the bats would be better -- spiders are just aweful things to have to be around plus there are SO many of them -- i think i would prefer the bats -- maybe they would fall asleep -- i don think spiders ever sleep -- i don tlike this question -- both would freak me out but bats would be better -- i guess

Name: Noremac
Choice: Bats
Comments: I love spiders...unless they are crawling on or towards me. So I think that I am going to have to go with the bats. I have much less of a problem with things that fly.

Name: Scott Hardister
Choice: Bats
Comments: I have to stick with the vampire bats, because I just can't stand spiders. I don't even like those "daddy long-leg" things. They are scary.

Name: Johncliver
Choice: Bats
Comments: I have seen bats on TV. They are kinda cute, like little furry pigs with wings. Plus I don't think they would try to crawl up my pants like the spiders would probably want to do. I think they would snuggle up to me and fall into a peaceful sleep and purr (because i think they do that).

Name: Bonnie
Choice: Bats
Comments: There are 1/10 as many bats so maybe I could keep an eye on all of them. I would imagine that the bats are harmless hamsters with wings. 50 is just too many spiders. It would be creepy, creepy, creepy!

Name: Jess
Choice: Spiders
Comments: I have a better chance of squishing the spiders than I do of killing the bats. Plus I can handle spiders, you really cannot hear their body crunch when you squish them, but bats on the other hand make a lound crunching noise, which in itself would be torture, like nails on a blackboard.

Name: Chris
Choice: Bats
Comments: If the spiders are the size of quarters, their mouthparts are large enough to be able to bite people. I would rather have five bats that I can "take care of" one at a time than 50 biting spiders. Unless, of course, Sam the spider is there and he can explain the situation to the rest of the spiders and they can all help me get out of this coffin that I somehow got trapped in with 50 innocent hapless spiders.

Name: Kim aka. Chris's Chick
Choice: Bats
Comments: Well even if the spiders were not poisionious I would not want to be trapped with them because I am alergic to them. So i would rather suffer with the bats, plus bats sleep part of the day and if you don't bother them they will not wake up and bother you!!!

Name: Kevin
Choice: Spiders
Comments: Bats have teeth and are inherently hostile in a situation like that, the spiders don't have teeth, and would just act like spiders always do. The spiders would just be unpleasant, the bats would actually be dangerous. And like John Taylor said, you could squish all the spiders eventually. Sure, it'd be a gooey mess, but you could get it done.