Posted on 06/29/2014 5:58:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A WOMAN has been arrested after burning down part of her home in an attempt to kill a spider, police say.
Ginny Griffith, 34, used a cigarette lighter to set fire to some towels after seeing the arachnid in her bathroom.
But as the blaze spread, five fire trucks were called to her apartment in Hutchinson, Kansas, US at around 1.36am (local time) on Friday morning to put out the inferno.
Firefighters were able to bring the fire under control within a matter of minutes.
Deputy Fire Chief Doug Hanen said in a statement that firefighters had found smoke coming from smouldering clothes just inside the doorway as they entered.
He confirmed the team had also found multiple other points where the fire may have been started.
Police said the woman confessed to lighting the towels with her cigarette lighter.
As a result of the fire, Griffith was arrested and charged with aggravated arson because she owns a shared home.
It is not know what happened to the spider.
Well that worked out better than the time they tried crossing rattlesnake and coyote DNA....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi93eSz8Wjk
Uh, oh.
Now what?
Remember the movie, “No way out”?
You don’t know if you don’t try.
In his youth, Clint Eastwood napalmed that sucka.
True but after the weaponized GekKo thing went bad, someone should have pulled the plug...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg2jZM0WMUo
My wife and I bought our house a few years ago. First, the red wasps nested under the car port. one tagged me, that's how I found out they were there.
Last year it was the Brown Recluse spider in the shed. I was wearing long pants and boots. It still got my calf.
I'm apprehensive about what this year will bring...
Men can come up with silly solutions as well:
http://www.chicoer.com/policefire/ci_21031067/man-sets-house-ablaze-while-killing-spiders-blowtorch
http://www.nottinghampost.com/Arachnophobia-alcohol-lead-blaze/story-12253390-detail/story.html
Very funny!
“........multiple other points where the fire may have been started.......”
“........smouldering clothes........”
I am starting to wonder if there really was a spider after all. Perhaps the woman just had a case of the heebee jeebee’s.
We get the fire ants and I seem to be allergic to them. One bite and it’s a dime size lump that ends up blistering. That itches like mad.
Lots of chemical death sprayed in the summer. in and outside. But they somehow survive the assault.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave.......... From Charlotte’s Web to Shelob’s Lair to the Spiders From Mars..........
Maybe she brought them in on her clothes and things escalated. Maybe she hallucinated them.
Anyway, it’s a shame about the house burning.
Sometimes, stupid *does* hurt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/woman-burns-down-home-set_n_2933888.html
:)
In honor of that brilliant little serpent, I even bought a domain
Lucy *really* needs to work on her secrecy.
:D
This is ridiculous. Spiders are adorable!
After all, cockroaches are pre-historic so the only possible way to rid oneself of the critters.
I tried it, it worked fantastically, though cost us $35,000 in expenses after what the insurance paid us.
This is one of the most absurd things I’ve ever heard.
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