How FOUR cops rushed to kill spider in wheelchair-bound teen's home.....

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[Morgana]

Which FReeper is the arachnoid specialist and can tell us what kind of arachnid that was?

[RC one]

recluses are pretty rare up north. tend to stop finding them north of the Ohio river. not saying it isn’t possible though.

[Uncle Chip]

It was probably a wolf spider and it thought that she was Little Red Riding Hood.

If you get a chance listen to her interview. She is so cute and genuine that I think the cops would do it again without hesitation.

[Kirkwood]

Probably a hobo spider. They get pretty big and are brown.

[Morgana]

Yea but would a wolf spider put a person in the hospital like it did her Ma?

[Joe 6-pack]

She is a very attractive young lady. I’m guessing the cops will be checking in regularly just to make sure she’s ok, and there haven’t been any more spiders.

[golux]

To protect and to serve Shawnda.

[Kirkwood]

A hobo spider has a poisonous bite and can cause necrosis. I see also that the giant house spider is common in Washington State. I’m not sure if it is poisonous though.

[NonValueAdded]

Did they shoot her dog for good measure?

[Uncle Chip]

That would have been a brown recluse — about an inch wide.

But the one the police swatted with a paper was larger— about 2 inches wide. So they handcuffed it, read it its rights, shot the dog and took the spider with them.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The spider is guilty. The girl is not guilty.

[fieldmarshaldj]

[AlexW]

“recluses are pretty rare up north. tend to stop finding them north of the Ohio river. not saying it isn’t possible though.”
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A three inch recluse? That certainly would be a world record, haha. When back in Tennessee, I had to deal with them on a daily basis.
Three inches is a very big spider.,,,Maybe a wolf spider. I had one a bit larger then that just yesterday. I trapped it and relocated it to the outdoors.

[Tennessee Nana]

Yeah well you can come and rescue me or send the cops...

Im up on a chair here with your wolf spider licking his chops ...

[Slump Tester]

I was half listening to Rush the other day and he said something about it like it was really silly. The fact that she's wheelchair bound and suffers from muscular dystrophy puts it in an entirely different light, as well as the fact she tried calling everywhere else first AND used the non-emergency number.

I don't think Rush mentioned any of that, but then again I was only half listening while I was doing something else.

[stormer]

Do you have a problem with her name?

[onedoug]

Brown Recluse spiders have an “hourglass” shape on their backs.

I think I got bitten by one a few years ago. There was a real tendency to want to scratch it, as it seemed to itch more than ache. Though that’s where the real problem can start as it spreads the venom and gets easily infected.

Don’t scratch the bite.

[onedoug]

Sorry. It’s not an “hougless”, but a “violin”. My fault.

[AlexW]

“Yeah well you can come and rescue me or send the cops...”
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Well Nana, if I were back in Tennessee, I would come to your rescue, but now 12,000 miles away...A bit far for a house-call.
Anyway, do not be afraid of the spider. They do good works for us.
Licking HIS chops? Come now, you know it is only females that are wild and dangerous, at least in the human species ;)

[TigersEye]

Given her circumstances I don’t blame her a bit for calling the cops for a possible Brown Recluse or a Hobo spider. Can’t tell from the pic she took what it was though. Cops should have sent its little corpse off to have it identified. Either that or the family should hire an exterminator to come see if they have an infestation going on.