I have been very friendly to spiders since an incident about 20 years ago.
I noticed that cockroach carcasses were accumulating just inside a door which opened into a hallway. A full time janitor cleaned the hallway and most of the building, but not that particular room. I thought that he was sweeping them under the door to get rid of then. After a week or so, I investigated and found that a spider had its web directly over the area. The "carcasses" were actually only the shells of the cockroaches after their insides had been eaten.
Now, whenever I see cacatas in the DR I want to pick them up and put them in strategic places, like the kitchen cabinet for example. I usually chicken out because using a cap or other object is too awkward and may even injure the cacata, but I'm afraid to pick them up barehanded.
Someday, I'll probably try it anyway. I think the odds are overwhelming that I won't get bitten at all, but if so, ...well, I've been stung by big, mean, red wasps many times already.
I use the red wasp because it's just about the worst insect sting that I know of. For those who have been deprived of this experience, it reminds me of some of the immunization injections that I had as a kid - instant pain, followed soon by red discoloration and egg sized swelling - itching after a couple of days - about a week to disappear.