Posted on 09/29/2015 9:24:18 PM PDT by rdl6989
CENTER LINE, Mich. - A man tried to kill a spider at a gas station using a lighter causing a dangerous fire.
Using a lighter to kill the bug, he started a blaze that quickly engulfed the gas pump.
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Exit. LOL
Good grief... we give names to our predatory housemates.
I was just going to ask, who held his beer? It looks like Earl held it.
Super!
It only sounds stupid and excessive because there’s no indication in the report as to how big the spider was.
Some say environment. Some say genetics. Can’t it be both?
Once when a teen I went to the bathroom and sat down, was immediately burned on the back of my thigh. I jumped up and ran to the kitchen where I yelled at my father for dropping his pipe ashes on the toilet seat. He declared his innocence, and we went back and found a dying wasp.
Reminds of the 1997 movie “Mousehunt”.
I don’t like wasps.
[currently sharing my life/sofa with a really "friendly" wolf spider who apparently dwells in my living room, somewhere]
Jumping spiders are my favorites, followed by Orb Weavers.
But really, I like them all.
:)
I kinda like ‘em, too. :)
Couple nights ago, a funnel spider staggered into the machine shop, acting unwell and I *thought* he was the funnel spider who lives in a bucket by the door.
Fearing he’d somehow gotten “lost” or misplaced himself from his usual home, I picked him up and put him back in the bucket.
About a minute later, he leaped over the side and hid under the shelf where the bucket sits.
Turns out the original owner was still in its home.
Poor little guy.
He eventually warmed up enough to wander off somewhere else in the shop...probably cussing me for tossing him into a stranger’s living room.
:D
Hank: Well, I follow the moth in the helicopter to lure it away from the flowers, and then Roy comes along in the Lockheed Starfighter and attacks it with air-to-air missiles.
Roy: A lot of people have asked us why we don't use fly spray. Well, where's the sport in that?
Jumping and Orbs on this list.
Dumbass.
DANG!
lol...funny story! Mistaken identity. It happens.
Is that one of the big ones? I had a large one in my bathroom a year ago. Managed to kill it without burning the goddamn house down.
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