A German woman laid waste to her family home by setting fire to it as she tried to kill spiders in a garage with a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter.
Police in the western town of Zuelpich said that when the aerosol failed to finish them off, the 34-year-old woman tried to burn them with the lighter.
However, this set the area she had just sprayed on fire and the blaze spread to a hedge.
“She tried to put the fire out with a garden hose, but could not,” he said.
“Instead her semi-detached house next to the hedge caught fire. It’s now uninhabitable.”
What is there to say, except —
“The spiders are gone though, that problem was solved.”
And you fundamentalists don’t believe in evolution!
Don’t screw around with phobic people! This being a German using a home made flame thrower just adds another bizarre dimension to this.
New York State News
Mall evacuated after worker starts fire trying to kill spider
The Associated Press
6/24/04 9:21 AM
JOHNSON CITY, N.Y. (AP) — A worker at a sporting goods store tried to kill a spider by burning it and ignited a fire that caused the evacuation of the mall where the store is located.
Police charged Joseph Freer, 23, Binghamton, with fourth-degree arson, a felony, following the fire late Wednesday afternoon at the Champs Sports store in the Oakdale Mall, 80 miles south of Syracuse near Binghamton.
Freer, an assistant manager, doused the spider with a flammable substance and then lit it, said Johnson City Police Capt. Ted Wido. The blaze quickly spread to merchandise in the storage area, eventually engulfing the storage area in flames.
There were no injuries. But smoke from the fire quickly filled the mall, forcing it to close for the day.
The Champs store sustained serious smoke and water damage, Wido said. Several other nearby stores had slight to moderate smoke and water damage, he said.