zilla ticket: new: tiny spiders descending from vents at a rate of about 1 per hour

[azurelunatic]

       Summary: tiny spiders descending from vents at a rate of about 1 per hour
          Category: Building Engineering
           Version: other
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Windows 7
            Status: NEW
          Severity: S4
         


After gently removing a spider from my sleeve, [pkeeper] informed me that a series of tiny, adorable, harmless spiders have been descending from the vent in the ceiling of his office ([location]) for a few days now. He estimates the rate of spider infiltration into his office to be on average 1/hour, assuming a more or
less consistent flow of spiders during the hours that the office is not occupied. 

While these spiders are certainly a harmless element of the office ecosystem and not a portent of a Shelob or Aragog lurking in the depths of the HVAC system, we felt you should be aware that this is a thing that is happening.



------- Comment #1 from alunatic  2014-06-30 21:56PST -------

Correction: only today. Which is quite enough. 

Comments

[vass]

That is an excellent bug report.

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

The guy with the flashlight didn't see any this morning, but since I didn't see the one that Purple pointed out, that means nothing. (The one Purple pointed out was not the one on my sleeve.)

[siderea]

Hmmm. I thought spiders weren't bugs? Clearly this is a feature request.

[azurelunatic]

Requested feature: outdoor spiders.

[siliconshaman]

But spiders crawling where they shouldn't be are a bug... maybe they're malware? That would make it more a security breech problem.

[kateshort]

It's only a security breech when they end up in someone's pants.

[tcpip]

We had a QA document at work which referred to security breeches. It was delightful raising an Improvement Request on such a policy.

[azurelunatic]

My favorite "examine your zipper" phrase is "Security breach at Los Pantalones."