Do I have to post *everything* ...?
Posted on 01/08/2018 4:26:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
A do-it-yourself extermination gone off the rails Sunday ended up ousting residents from a California apartment.
A man set fire to a spider in the Redding apartment with a torch lighter, reported The Record Searchlight.
“It was a huge wolf spider,” Lyndsey Wisegarver, a caregiver for one of the tenants, told the publication. The flaming arachnid scuttled onto a mattress in an upstairs bedroom, setting it abalze as well, she said. The tenants extinguished that fire, but by then it had spread to a flag collection and window curtains.
By the time firefighters arrived around noon, the blaze had spread to a closet as well. Firefighters ended up extinguishing the blaze, which caused about $11,000 in damage and rendered the townhouse uninhabitable, Battlion Chief Rob Pitt told KRCR. There were no injuries, except to the spider.
Hope he got all that recorded on his cell phone.
Oh good, a Darwin Award thread!
Before the Internet, I had no idea how frequently this occurs.
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Do I have to post *everything* ...?
...and the eensy weensy spider went up the spout again.
He obviously never read “Charlotte’s Web”.
Spiders are good.
I have a domain name, Flaming Snakes, dedicated to the poor harmless little snek doused with gas and set ablaze by a sadistic bitch.
Snek got the last laugh by slithering under her house and burning it down.
Well played, Snek.
Well played.
Mad props to Sparky the Spooder, too.
Flaming Wolf spiders!!!!!
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This has the sound of a quickly devised cover story for a drug op gone bad!
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What a great name for a band! Little Miss Muffet and the Flaming Wolf Spiders ... Red Hot Rock
Remember that spider that was crawling on the wall that you threw your shoe at and it fell and disappeared?
No?
He remembers
Yeah!
I had one I thought of yesterday.....
Whipping Hippies
Compression always works for me.
I think our way of getting rid of spiders is much better.
We use a cup and a piece of paper to trap the spider. Then we throw it outside, where it belongs.
No one gets hurt. Nothing burns. And the spider continues its life of vermin hunting.
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