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Posted on 03/18/2026 5:05:51 PM PDT by algore
A candidate for the US Senate has been convicted of throwing a tarantula down the stairs of her basement in a Home Alone-inspired bid to scare an alleged squatter.
Marisa Simonetti, 32, who is running as an independent in the upcoming Senate election in Minnesota, was convicted on Friday of misdemeanor counts of domestic assault, harassment and disorderly conduct.
The charges stemmed from the tarantula incident, which occurred in 2024. At the time, Simonetti told NBC News that she got the idea from the 1990 movie Home Alone, starring then-child actor Macaulay Culkin.
In the film, Culkin's character, Kevin McCallister, terrorizes burglars with a series of Rube Goldberg-style improvised traps, and at one point, the child releases a tarantula that crawls across one of the burglars' faces.
'I’m not a physically violent person, and I watched the movie Home Alone growing up, and I was like, you know what, this is such a strange situation,' Simonetti told the outlet.
'If I’m scared or hurt, I try and make jokes. And I was so scared, I was just like, I didn’t know what to do, and so, yeah, I got the spider.'
Simonetti claimed that 32-year-old attorney Jackie Vasquez had been 'squatting' in her home, but the victim insisted that she had paid $1,500 to stay there through Airbnb.
Simonetti said that she had canceled the Airbnb reservation after just a couple of weeks because Vasquez had been sending her multi-paragraph texts and had been shouting on the phone late at night.
The US Senate hopeful also claimed that Vasquez refused to leave the basement and told NBC News that the unwanted tenant had 'barricaded herself' inside.
Vasquez claimed that she 'desperately wanted' to leave but was unable to because Simonetti had created a 'hostile environment.'
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Just what America needs, an adult, female US Senator who derives life advice from John Hughes movies.
Hot, hot, hot!
NO, NOT “The Laz”!
That’s the way forward. Strange that we did not see it until now.
Ballistic deployment of a tarantula is against the law ?
I like the outside box problem solving!
rule #?
never share a place with a woman who has a pet tarantula...
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?”
I have chatted with Marissa, she’s nice, just a bit passionate in her approach to problems.
I think I could fix her.
4,10 on the Hot-Crazy matrix. Solidly into the no-go zone.
Looked her up.
HOT!
I’d buy her a drink, or two.
;)
Do Tarantulas eat their mates after? Asking for a friend…
It looks like there are electrodes coming out of her ears in the mugshot. She must be the bride of Frankenstein.
It worked.....
Squatters are a big deal.
When you call the cops on them, they produce a legitimate looking lease, and the Cop tells you to go see a judge. In 90 days.
In that 90 days, they burn your property to the ground, like happened 250 times to unoccupied squatted houses in Portland,OR.
I have a temporarily unoccupied house south of Portland, and have erected a massive anti-squatter defense. At least four layers deep. You cannot afford squatters burning you out.
How many drinks have you had? :-)
LOL!
+1
I can think of a few leftist extremists in the senate who could use the attention of a tarantula or perhaps a more deadly critter.
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