Posted on 11/28/2015 1:54:46 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
Terrified neighbours phoned the police after hearing a woman screaming hysterically and a man yelling: “I’m going to kill youâ€.
But when officers arrived at the address they discovered the flat's sole occupant had been trying to catch a SPIDER .
The shamefaced man admitted he had been shouting death threats at the arachnid and had been the person behind the high pitched screaming.
According to New South Wales police in Australia, they received multiple calls about the sound of crashing furniture and a man screaming: “I’m going to kill you, you're dead! Die Die!!â€.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
[Thanks to Trillian for the (spider) web address!]
Whatever happened to just flushing it down the toilet?
DANG!
That’s pretty hillarious. That could be me, but at least I’m actually a girl!
Your neck of the woods.
Spider called the police department?
Phobias can do strange things. Guy I know, black belt in Ju Jitsu, got into fights to defend women being threatened and assaulted by their boyfriends. Can’t stand the sight of scorpions and he literally runs away screaming at even a picture of a scorpion.
rofl!!! never saw that!
Where do you live so I can send mine for cutting.
NYC boy here and I have a defibrillator nearby in case I see a spider.
First, I bring my heart back to life.
Then I spray it with enough Raid to kill Mothra and step back as it flails and finally falls.
Then i grab four pounds of paper towels so i cant feel its body when i throw it away.
Then I pray the cat doesn’t go near the mounds of Raid and mutate into something horrible over the years.
Should I just leave now or wait for Jim to kick me off?
why would you do that man?
why?...
Obviously this fellow’s name is not Sam Gamgee and the spider is not Shelob.
Still more manly than Mr Shrieky. ;^)
again...why?...
and why the @!#$ did God make something with so many eyes and legs and what looks like fur?
did he NOT THINK that was going to terrify women, children and some NYC men??
He needs to seek professional help.
I would suggest a gynecologist.
I'm just a butterfly.
Wait a minute guys- it’s Australia. It might actually be as menacing as all that, it might be the size of my coffee table and pack enough venom to kill the population of an entire small country.
I hate the damn things too, and I have nothing to prove to anybody where physical courage is concerned. I do deal with them, I don’t scream and yell and run away, but I have the same psycho-physical reaction as I would dealing with a mortal threat like a home-invasion.
This guy is plainly phobic. Phobias do not answer to reason, and they don’t mean that the person with them is ball-less. You could sit down with people like that and they’d tell you that they know perfectly well intellectually that it’s just a spider. Their rational mind has the perspective. They’re not lying to cover up being a pussy or anything. But show them one and things change real fast.
Phobias are weird. I’ve seen people who are mortally fearful of butterflies, even though in their rational mind they understand that they’re perfectly harmless. I’ve read that Napoleon Bonaparte, who conquered much of Europe, was afraid of cats.
We REALLY need a ‘Like’ button. :-)
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