What if the spider was pregnant?
Was the roommmate just giving it an abortion?
Or maybe a trans spider, getting surgury?
And rioters walk free.
I hope it wasn’t an “Emotional Service” Spider.
But this was not a spider in the wild, or a spider that didn't belong to anyone getting into a house and scaring the occupants.
The spider in question was a pet, and therefore it was someone's property. The property was destroyed. And it was also destroyed in such a way that caused the pet suffering.
Replace "pet spider" with "pet dog" and the destroyer of the pet would be punished.
Cats would have immunity under the Garfield Rule
Jumping spider? Those can be quite friendly and could see that having a pretty cool life hanging out in an enclosure as a pet.
The replies here are hysterical!
LMAO!
I lived for years out in the New Mexico desert...
I learned to exist with the tarantulas and scorpions but never came close to considering one as a pet, egads!
I will have to cut the spider drowning gal some slack here....
Never visit Australia if you really hate spiders, they have some LARGE ones....
Arachnids everywhere are outraged…unable to speak. /sarc
If the headline had read woman kills roommates’ $70.00 pet spider it wouldn’t get many clicks.
Animals cannot have rights, nor can they respect them.
God said we have dominion over them.
They are property, at most. We are to be caretakers, but they are, in no way, human equivalent.
A spider cannot be a pet. The human may be under a delusion and think it is.
So, declaring an insect to be a pet gives it protection by the law? What about that ant that I saw on the sidewalk? If I had given it a name, then my neighbor could be thrown in jail for stepping on it?
Delusion and insanity rule the country.
“Joe, you killed ANTonio, my pet! I’m calling the cops!”
Little Ms Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
Drinking German beer so pale
Then along came a spider
Who Sat down beside her
And asked for a sip of Ale!
Was this one of those domesticated spiders
trained to walk on a leash?
The neighborhood dogs would bark themselves horse, I mean hoarse.
We kill millions of bacteria every time we inhale. Fight for bacterial rights!
the woman should claim that she was only trying, per request of the spider, to transition it to a spotted owl, but the operation went sour, and she should be awarded, not charged with trying to convert the spider to an owl
I hate ginger ale more than spiders.
Not an "animal". Is an Arachnid.
What if I grabbed one of the billion or so cicadas flying around and kept one as a pet? And someone grabbed my pet and ate it? Would I be able to call the cops on him?
The other billion don’t have names, so it’s OK to kill them.
Babies targeted for abortion don’t have names either. That makes it OK to kill them. (/ bitter sarcasm)
When do people start going to jail for killing somebody’s pet vegetable?
Save the vegetables!