REAL LIFE NEWS: POLICE STORM HOUSE AFTER MAN HEARD THREATENING TO KILL… A SPIDER
by Hazed
Police in Sydney, Australia, rushed to a home after neighbours reported a violent domestic incident was taking place. The reports told of a woman screaming hysterically, a man yelling, “I’m going to kill you, you’re dead,” and furniture being thrown around.
A man answered the door and appeared to be “out of breath and rather flushed”. Police challenged him and the following conversation took place (as documented on Facebook):
“Where’s your wife?” an officer asked.
“I don’t have one,” the man replied.
“Where’s your girlfriend?” he pressed.
“I don’t have one,” he said.
Police told the man neighbours had heard the screams, the threats to kill, the dull thud of flung furniture. “Come on mate, what have you done to her?” the officer asked.
“It was a spider,” the man replied sheepishly. “A really big one.”
“What about the woman screaming?”
“Yeah sorry, that was me,” he said. “I really, really hate spiders.”
Yes, the whole kerfuffle was due to the man chasing a spider around his home with a can on insect spray.
Well I guess that is a better response to a spider than trying to set it on fire, or shoot it!