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I guess he probably just wanted to be sure it was dead. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018...artment-on-fire.html "A California man thought he nabbed a spider by setting it on fire on Sunday, but the eight-legged critter, while its body was engulfed in flames, ended up torching his apartment by scurrying on a mattress that quickly went ablaze. An unidentified man who lived in a Redding apartment was trying to kill a “huge wolf spider” just before setting the apartment on fire, Lyndsey Wisegarver, who lived in the home, told Redding’s Record Searchlight. Wolf spiders are venomous insects that have hairy bodies and can be more than 1-inch long." | ||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Freaking idiot! should have captured it and released it outside. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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Comic Relief |
Sadder but wiser, next time he'll use TNT. | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Totally reasonable. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| Never miss an opportunity to be Batman!  |
Yep, totally agree. For any spider, all options are on the table: running from the apartment screaming, fire, nuking the site from orbit, even (gasp)...using a 10mm. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
I'm in the camp saying he should just have captured it and taken it outside. Wolf Spiders are not dangerous to adult humans, and they eat a lot of bugs. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Plowing straight ahead come what may |
Small juice glass put over spider...stiff thin cardboard slipped under glass...carefully pick up juice glass/offending spider/thin card board sheet as one unit...flip over so cardboard sheet is on top/spider is in bottom of glass...go to back door...release offending spider into the wild... No fuss...no muss...no fire. Note...it also works with scorpions as well  ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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Should have captured it, then fried it up with his eggs in the morning.  ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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| Smarter than the average bear |
I'm not buying it. A spider, while on fire with enough flames to ignite a mattress, is still moving under it's own power? Nope. Dude just torched the mattress while going after the spider. Or just torched the mattress because they wanted to move. | |||
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| Avoiding slam fires  |
That is crazy. I have them all around my place.they love the greenhouses and lay egg balls on the rafters. Do not see the need to harm such a beautiful thing. | |||
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Freaking idiot! should have captured it and released it outside.[/QUOTE] Yep, Good to have around | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Of course. Such is always my course of action with most little critters. We are joking when we say fire bombing one's home is a reasonable response to seeing a spider. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Spiders aren't insects. Who the hell wrote this story? Also, like honestlou, I just don't buy it. The guy probably dropped his crack pipe or something. I hate offended people. They come in two flavours - huffy and whiny - and it's hard to know which is worst. The huffy ones are self-important, narcissistic authoritarians in love with the sound of their own booming disapproval, while the whiny, sparrowlike ones are so annoying and sickly and ill-equipped for life on Earth you just want to smack them round the head until they stop crying and grow up. - Charlie Brooker | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
Even a big wolf spider is maybe a little over an inch from leg tip to leg tip. Real dangerous.  Why not just step on it? Setting it on fire is not just ridiculous, but could be considered cruelty, even if it doesn't possess a nervous system to feel pain. | |||
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Ditto what honestlou said. Actually he probably was getting stoned in bed and fell asleep. Remember it was a" positive incident." Just the type of renters a landlord dreads. | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom  |
The Hell you say. Fire solves all problems. Especially bug problems. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado |
According to the Internet, a large Wolf Spider can have a body as long as 2 inches, which would mean the size across the legs would probably be up to 4 inches. That's pretty big, but one is still not particularly dangerous. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
So then....maybe it was a roach?  | |||
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Don't Panic |
Sounds like Michael Moore. | |||
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| Plowing straight ahead come what may |
This is the only wolf spider I would be concerned with...I might pass on the catch it in a glass trick and just offer it a piece of steak instead...  ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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