Creepy Crawlies in Golden Gate Park

So yesterday as I was walking T-Mac around Golden Gate Park, I came upon the weirdest thing I haven ever seen coming crawling out of the bushes. No...it was not a creepy bum. That would not be that weird for this park. No....it was not one of the cute lil' squirrels or ducks that T-Mac loves to chase...Nope...none of those either.

So I was walking right by Stow lake and was thinking about how much I like this quiet little path by the water, when I looked down and saw this nasty looking “weird red/ lobster/ crayfish/ scorpion” thing. It was crawling away from the bushes and up onto the path I was walking on.

I was like "HOLY!!!!! AHHHHHH!"

I froze.

It froze.

Despite me going "T-mac look..look...LOOK" while pulling his leash towards the little creature assuming that he would start barking or something. T-Mac did not even see it. He just kept glancing right over it and looked at me like WTF? - But the little weird red/ lobster/ crayfish/ scorpion still got freaked out by my big dog so it rocked back on its tail and raised its pincers in the air. It was at least 6 inches from tip of the tail to its head. It looked like something out of a discovery channel pre-historic documentary show or something. It was freaking WEIRD. And of course, T-Mac, the dog, STILL did not even see it. I picked up a stick to see if this lobster/ scorpion would pinch it with its pincers but it wouldn't. It just sat there balancing- ready to pounce on us.

So since T-Mac obviously didn't care about the creepy thing, we just left it there, looking all creepy with its antennae twitching around- being gross and me pretty weirded out. I came home and tried to explain what I saw to my roommate- what that little creature looked like and how it balanced on its tail and I sounded like a crazy person. Especially the part about it looking like a red lobster since lobsters only turn red AFTER you cook them. So I decided to google it to figure out what it was. I was having a hard time finding stuff using the terms "red/ lobster/ crayfish/ scorpion" but then I finally came up on this posting. It's good to know that I am NOT crazy and that other people have seen the same little weird creature. I just hope to not see another one. Not really my bag.