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Man sets parents’ Fresno home on fire trying to kill black widows with blowtorch
Fresno Bee ^
| 24 Oct 2018
| HANNAH FRY
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 ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; arachnophobia; notflorida
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Kin to Miss Muffet?
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posted on
10/25/2018 3:37:10 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
Liberal.. but I’ll give him credit for figuring out how to light the torch.
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posted on
10/25/2018 3:39:08 PM PDT
by
maddog55
To: DUMBGRUNT
Took the day off from his brain surgery job?
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posted on
10/25/2018 3:39:37 PM PDT
by
FlyFisher
To: DUMBGRUNT
Shoulda used a coupla hand grenades.
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posted on
10/25/2018 3:40:11 PM PDT
by
FroggyTheGremlim
( The following statement is false. The previous statement is true.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Again, it’s the Black Widow Blowtorch Apocalpse!
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posted on
10/25/2018 3:42:16 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DUMBGRUNT
OMG ,it’s only a Spider ,use a sledge
To: DUMBGRUNT
Guy sounds like a fool.
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Everyone knows you need to use explosives against spiders.
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posted on
10/25/2018 3:44:30 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
10/25/2018 3:44:31 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: DUMBGRUNT
Couldn’t rent a flamethrower?
To: DUMBGRUNT
“Kin to Miss Muffet?”
If you mean Waters, or Pelosi, Harris, or Schiff, then yes.
Meatheads the lot. Per Archie B., dead from the neck up.
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posted on
10/25/2018 3:55:54 PM PDT
by
redshawk
(0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
He should have nuked them from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
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posted on
10/25/2018 3:56:24 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: DUMBGRUNT
He didn’t want to use insecticide because it’s bad for the environment.
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posted on
10/25/2018 3:56:33 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
To: FlyFisher
"Took the day off from his brain surgery job?"
The 23-year-old man called firefighters about 10:30 p.m.
Plenty of time to get home and relax... But 23 seems a bit young for that line of work?
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posted on
10/25/2018 4:03:41 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(So what!)
To: eCSMaster
“Shoulda used a coupla hand grenades.”
WILLY PETE!
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posted on
10/25/2018 4:05:09 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(So what!)
To: EEGator
Looks like the right guy for the job.
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posted on
10/25/2018 4:06:25 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(So what!)
To: doorgunner69
No aerosol can and lighter on hand I guess.
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posted on
10/25/2018 4:07:09 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
To: doorgunner69
Couldn’t rent a flamethrower?
Musk may have them on a closeout special?
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posted on
10/25/2018 4:07:36 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(So what!)
To: bagster
(Neighborhood news!)
Not Mr. Nips I hope and not your house!
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“He didn’t want to use insecticide because it’s bad for the environment.”
Is it even legal to use an insecticide in Cali?
And by chance, was it a protected spider?
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posted on
10/25/2018 4:10:51 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(So what!)
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Not Mr. Nips I hope and not your house!
🕷
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posted on
10/25/2018 4:20:44 PM PDT
by
bagster
("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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