How did this crab get in our 1st floor hotel room?

[Sneakycrab]

In the bathroom at around 8:30am and heard a tapping sound. Assumed it was pipes, it carried and sounded louder to look up and see a crab the size of an average mobile phone desperately trying to escape round the metal bathroom bin.
I have never left a bathroom so quickly in my life.
Went to reception who kindly removed the offending crab after a lot of laughter (from us all).

But it's bemused me as to how it's got in?
It was near a harbour but we hadn't been to the beach and we took out bags straight from the car to our room when we checked in around 5. Plus it was on the first floor!

Do crabs sleep? Would it have been there since the day before?? It was a family room with 4 of us in and I can't believe none of us had disturbed it till the next morning after 2 trips out after check in, and multiple showers/bathroom trips.

I have actually witnessed the spectacle of ‘crab racing’ in Antigua
with legitimate betting and lanes for them
they are much less maintenance than horses or greyhounds though I imagine

Oh good lord the coconut crab is the thing of nightmares!

I think that was the crab the guards put in Steve McQueens food bucket in the film ‘Papillon’

@Brollypackedforscottishholiday

My ds is in Magaluf.. Bet crabs are rife there!!

Lets hope he doesn't bring any home! 🤣

Why did the crab cross the road?

It didn't. It used the sidewalk.

@Galassia

Why did the crab cross the road?

It didn't. It used the sidewalk.

This is the type of joke that makes my kids look at each other with really long suffering faces while me and DH laugh.

@Galassia

He probably came in as it was a bit nippy outside.

*gets coat...

Like the PP's one who was obviously heading for a shellf.

*Quirrelsotherface

Had you been to the beach?

Did you read the opening post?*

Sorry, no. I clearly hadn't. My bad. To be honest was just thinking how terrified I would be had it happened to me!

A good few years ago we went to Cuba, in a 1st floor bar and a crab took a dislike to my bil

Was it because you didn’t leave a tip or was it offended by all the tequilas?

@Bakewellisntjustacake

Oh good lord the coconut crab is the thing of nightmares!

Christ, looks like it could remove a human head with one snip if it’s claw.

Well if I’m case you ever find yourself in the grips of a coconut crab, this is what you should do apparently:

“ The pincers of the coconut crab are powerful enough to cause noticeable pain to a human; furthermore, the coconut crab often keeps its hold for extended periods of time. Thomas Hale Streets reports a trick used by Micronesians of the Line Islands to get a coconut crab to loosen its grip: "It may be interesting to know that in such a dilemma a gentle titillation of the under soft parts of the body with any light material will cause the crab to loosen its hold.”

@FlyingScott

Well if I’m case you ever find yourself in the grips of a coconut crab, this is what you should do apparently:

“ The pincers of the coconut crab are powerful enough to cause noticeable pain to a human; furthermore, the coconut crab often keeps its hold for extended periods of time. Thomas Hale Streets reports a trick used by Micronesians of the Line Islands to get a coconut crab to loosen its grip: "It may be interesting to know that in such a dilemma a gentle titillation of the under soft parts of the body with any light material will cause the crab to loosen its hold.”

Fact I learnt today: where to tickle a coconut crab.

If a giant crab has you in a death grip, make a sexual advance. That's one for Take a Break tips that is.

seagulls can get them to the weirdest places.
we had one drop a crayfish on our balcony. 3 floors up, about a half a mile from a canal.

@Galassia

Why did the crab cross the road?

It didn't. It used the sidewalk.

love this one

@IveGotASongThatllGetOnYNerves
🤣
Go on, send it in!

I would have thought à crab could be picked up with a firm grasp to the rear, I don't think they can swivel their front arms enough to get you if you did that.

Crabs are indeed good climbers. On holiday in Cuba years ago we used to come back to the hotel room to find a crab climbing up the wall or curtains.

Holy shit I've just googled coconut crabs. Holy, holy shit ...

[quote Sparklfairy]@JonahofArk are you always this crabby?[/quote]
@Sparklfairy always

@purplesequins

seagulls can get them to the weirdest places. we had one drop a crayfish on our balcony. 3 floors up, about a half a mile from a canal.

Wasn't an ancient Greek philosopher killed by an eagle dropping a tortoise ?