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Posted on 06/29/2014 5:58:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A WOMAN has been arrested after burning down part of her home in an attempt to kill a spider, police say.
Ginny Griffith, 34, used a cigarette lighter to set fire to some towels after seeing the arachnid in her bathroom.
But as the blaze spread, five fire trucks were called to her apartment in Hutchinson, Kansas, US at around 1.36am (local time) on Friday morning to put out the inferno.
Firefighters were able to bring the fire under control within a matter of minutes.
Deputy Fire Chief Doug Hanen said in a statement that firefighters had found smoke coming from smouldering clothes just inside the doorway as they entered.
He confirmed the team had also found multiple other points where the fire may have been started.
Police said the woman confessed to lighting the towels with her cigarette lighter.
As a result of the fire, Griffith was arrested and charged with aggravated arson because she owns a shared home.
It is not know what happened to the spider.
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The itsy-bitsy spider
Climbed up the water spout
House up in flames
To smoke the spider out.
When out came the sun
Alas, ‘twas all in vain-
For the itsy-bitsy spider
Climbed up the spout again...
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Nuke 'em and we'll have the sequel - 'Them Spiders'.
Spraying a spider with hair spray will slow it down until you can smash it with your shoe.
Spiders like me. If there are fifty people in the room, and fifty spiders, all fifty spiders will bite me, and no one else. I don’t know why. I don’t care why. Just kill them.
My wife and daughter want me to kill them when they find them but I just pick them up and put them outside. It drives my wife crazy that I do that.
The measure of a generalization is not whether it is always true, but if it is generally true.
Ya I do the same. I like spiders. Except the poisonous ones of course. I always take them outside too.
"Hi there!"
Don't get me wrong. I'm not averse to extincting creatures like mosquitoes and fleas - but that's because they only have one function which is to pass diseases on from animal to animal and human to human.
What about you?
To be on the safe side, I view all spiders as Black Widow spiders, and all snakes as rattlesnakes.
(Don’t tell Salamander.)
Watch out, you might get what you’re after
Cool baby, strange but not a stranger
I’m an ordinary guy
Burning down the house
Hold tight, wait ‘til the party’s over
Hold tight, we’re in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house
Here’s your ticket, pack your bags
Time for jumpin’ overboard
Transportation is here
Close enough but not too far,
Maybe you know where you are
Fightin’ fire with fire, huah
All wet, hey you might need a raincoat
Shakedown, dreams walking in broad daylight
Three hundred, sixty five degrees
Burning down the house
It was once upon a place sometimes, I listen to myself
Gonna come in first place
People on their way to work say baby what did you expect
Gonna burst into flame
Go ahead
Burning down the house
My house, is out of the ordinary
That’s right, don’t want to hurt nobody
Some things, sure can sweep me off my feet
Burning down the house
No visible means of support and you have not seen nothin’ yet
Everything’s stuck together
I don’t know what you expect staring into the TV set
Fightin’ fire with fire, huah
Yea
Burning down the house
Burning down the house
Burning down the house
Shoot, move to Austin. Those guys works as our fans, they literally move air.
Those don’t bother me much. But that pic? Cleansing Nuclear Fire. then get serious about it ;)
Add match, get flamethrower.
Something for you to do *this Instant*: google St. Vincent. Texas girl, trained up by David Byrne. Her breakout track is Digital Witness, maybe (sp). She’s Talking Heads with a chick mic.
Was her name Barack?
“Boris The Spider”
Look, he’s crawling up my wall
Black and hairy, very small
Now he’s up above my head
Hanging by a little thread
Boris the spider
Boris the spider
Now he’s dropped on to the floor
Heading for the bedroom door
Maybe he’s as scared as me
Where’s he gone now, I can’t see
Boris the spider
Boris the spider
Creepy, crawly
Creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
There he is wrapped in a ball
Doesn’t seem to move at all
Perhaps he’s dead, I’ll just make sure
Pick this book up off the floor
Boris the spider
Boris the spider
Creepy, crawly
Creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
He’s come to a sticky end
Don’t think he will ever mend
Never more will he crawl ‘round
He’s embedded in the ground
Boris the spider
Boris the spider
I believe I've discovered a flaw in your cunning plan...
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