While attending a General Techtronics public exhibition, a 14-year-old Peter Parker was bitten on the hand by a spider, which was irradiated by the demonstration's particle accelerator. Oblivious after the spider fell from his hand, the spider used its last pulses of life to bite a girl, Cindy Moon on the ankle before dying from the radiation.[102] Making his way home afterward, Peter was almost hit by a car until he leapt out of the way onto a building site a couple of meters high. Peter discovered he had somehow gained incredible strength, agility, and surface scaling; all spider-like traits that he immediately associated with the spider bite at the demonstration.[42]
