Remember that time you were inconvenienced because the airport staff were doing their due diligence? Yeah, that sucked. It totally put a damper on your whole journey. If you’ve travelled on a plane more than once there’s a good chance you have a bad story to tell. If you were in the company of fighters, you’d have to compete with a whole other level of travel nightmare stories. If missing your flight and having to wait 6 hours for the next one is your idea of a terrible experience, how about being detained in Bahrain, missing two flights and being bitten by a freaking enormous camel spider? Stephan Bonnar can one-up the travel nightmare stories of most and he’s uploaded some videos to tell everyone about it. 

MMAMania.com transcribed Bonnar’s appearance on Inside MMA from last night where he told the full story:

“There was only one flight out for the day at 9:30 p.m, the United flight that I was on. They kept me at the airport so long, I missed my flight. I had to wait till the next day to get on the flight. So, I'm tired. I'm sleeping at the airport, and all of a sudden, I wake up to a burning sensation on my leg. It scared me. I went and brushed down on my leg and, sure enough, a spider about the size of my hand comes crawling out of my pant leg and takes off runnin'! I couldn't believe my eyes! This big camel spider goes under the door. I try to chase it. I lose it, and then, my God, my leg swells up, I get a fever, its gettin' infected...but, hey, I'm gettin' the heck out of there. The next night, I'm on that 9:30 flight, I'm ready to board that flight when, lo and behold...THAT flight gets cancelled! So I'm stuck there another day! So, I had the option of going in for an antibiotic IV or stay in the hospital a few days, but instead, I opted to go the oral route, three different kinds of antibiotics, and I got on that flight that next day and got the hell out of there! God bless America!”

Check out an up close picture of the wicked camel spider bite:

I guess travelling through the Middle East with a T-shirt depicting Melvin Guillard stomping on Osama Bin Laden isn’t a good idea. [source]

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+34 # Guest 2012-04-24 04:23

He's hurt Mike ! That spider bite staggered him !

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+20 # BigEyeGuy 2012-04-24 05:21

I just woke up from an afternoon nap where i dreamt i played soccer on a pier with Mayhem Miller, Dana White, Karyn Bryant, and this guy:


And then a big tidal wave came and we had to escape, Because MMA is everything.

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+10 # JohnDanahersHair 2012-04-24 06:55

Lmaooooo stephan bonnar is a fucking gem

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+6 # Guest 2012-04-24 07:23

Fuck Bahhhhhrain, call in the H-bomb!

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+13 # Guest 2012-04-24 07:46

in response to bonnar's Tshirt from video 1:
Somewhere in a parallel universe there's an arab trying to get on a plane. Airport security doesn't like his T-shirt much... it depicts a bearded priest standing on a dead american fighter. They retain him, of course, and while being stuck at an airport a black widow spider bites his leg...

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+6 # Guest 2012-04-24 08:04

I call shenanigans on your alternate universe theory as a black widow is nowhere near as large as a camel spider. Those things are fucking huge!

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0 # Sambro 2012-04-24 17:58

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0 # Guest 2012-04-30 01:53

even better, a camel spider is not a spider at all! And black widow is way more poisonous...

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+1 # Guest 2012-04-24 14:53

I deny your theory because he wouldn't be detained and stuck in an airport, he'd be dead or in GITMO.

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+2 # gardeninja 2012-04-24 09:33

I did not think Camel Spiders had venom..but I could be wrong(I am alot and too lazy to wiki)looks more like a hooker bite to me.

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+6 # Guest 2012-04-24 10:58

''There is essentially no chance of death directly caused by the bite, but, due to the strong muscles of their chelicerae, they can produce a large, ragged wound that is prone to infection.''

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0 # Coq-MMA-Fan 2012-04-24 15:09

Stephan you're looking pretty crazy dude... the hell is up?

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+1 # Guest 2012-04-24 16:28

You think thats bad? Try losing a testicle in a knife fight with your mother!

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-2 # Lefthea D. Kick 2012-04-24 16:28

He was really there for F1.

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-1 # Guest 2012-04-24 16:33

So is he going to turn in to a zombie now?

How's the zombification going, Stephen!?

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+2 # boo 2012-04-25 06:58

If that thing crawled out of my pant leg, I would literally shit myself and die right on the spot.

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