Posted on 10/25/2018 3:37:10 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A Fresno man may have been taking the “kill it with fire” memes a bit too seriously when he set his parents’ home ablaze while trying to exterminate black widow spiders with a blowtorch, authorities said.
... Tuesday after he saw smoke coming from the attic of his parents’ home on East Mariners Circle in Woodward Lakes, a gated community in northeast Fresno
,,,“This is definitely not the preferred method to exterminate spiders in and around your home,”
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
And by chance, was it a protected spider? Since the EPA stopped cities from using CO2 to kill rats since it was not an approved insecticide , they could even say dish washing liquid cannot be used as an insecticide.
But I will say (as a renter in a populous city) that a propane torch is the best way to kill those "faster-than-light" drain flies (they have legs like grasshoppers for launching) when they are resting around the (clean) sink. Just slowly approach (using only your arms) with your afterburner on and them move in for the kill when about 4'' away.
speak for yourself, dude. I consider it entirely appropriate.
Well, it worked.
I wonder if the guy who said that saw the same damn spiders at his house AND had access to a blowtorch....same ending?
Dam# good to know, Pronto fast reply!
Haven’t passed a Stent yet? No? Good!
Keep up the good work!
Shoulda used a coupla hand grenades.
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We don’t know what weapons the spiders were using.
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