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Woman 'Burns Down House' trying to kill Spider
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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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: arson; ginnygriffith; kansas; napl; oops; spider
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To: vbmoneyspender
4. They help fix the space shuttle.
61 posted on 06/29/2014 6:58:35 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.s)
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To: Slings and Arrows; KC_Lion; TADSLOS

Well that worked out better than the time they tried crossing rattlesnake and coyote DNA....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi93eSz8Wjk


62 posted on 06/29/2014 7:04:28 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Salamander

Uh, oh.

Now what?

Remember the movie, “No way out”?


63 posted on 06/29/2014 7:07:20 PM PDT by LucyT (zer0 is draining & overloading the system, in order to get the political change he wants.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

You don’t know if you don’t try.


64 posted on 06/29/2014 7:09:21 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.s)
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To: LucyT; Salamander
Psst...put these on.


65 posted on 06/29/2014 7:11:57 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.s)
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To: PLMerite

In his youth, Clint Eastwood napalmed that sucka.


66 posted on 06/29/2014 7:13:18 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; KC_Lion; TADSLOS

True but after the weaponized GekKo thing went bad, someone should have pulled the plug...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg2jZM0WMUo


67 posted on 06/29/2014 7:13:30 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: BykrBayb
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

My wife and I bought our house a few years ago. First, the red wasps nested under the car port. one tagged me, that's how I found out they were there.

Last year it was the Brown Recluse spider in the shed. I was wearing long pants and boots. It still got my calf.

I'm apprehensive about what this year will bring...

68 posted on 06/29/2014 7:17:28 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Men can come up with silly solutions as well:

http://www.chicoer.com/policefire/ci_21031067/man-sets-house-ablaze-while-killing-spiders-blowtorch

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Arachnophobia-alcohol-lead-blaze/story-12253390-detail/story.html


69 posted on 06/29/2014 7:18:17 PM PDT by KittyKares (.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Very funny!


70 posted on 06/29/2014 7:19:41 PM PDT by GizzyGirl
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To: nickcarraway

“........multiple other points where the fire may have been started.......”
“........smouldering clothes........”

I am starting to wonder if there really was a spider after all. Perhaps the woman just had a case of the heebee jeebee’s.


71 posted on 06/29/2014 7:19:52 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

We get the fire ants and I seem to be allergic to them. One bite and it’s a dime size lump that ends up blistering. That itches like mad.

Lots of chemical death sprayed in the summer. in and outside. But they somehow survive the assault.


72 posted on 06/29/2014 7:22:52 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh, what a tangled web we weave.......... From Charlotte’s Web to Shelob’s Lair to the Spiders From Mars..........
Maybe she brought them in on her clothes and things escalated. Maybe she hallucinated them.
Anyway, it’s a shame about the house burning.


73 posted on 06/29/2014 7:38:57 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
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To: LucyT; Slings and Arrows

Sometimes, stupid *does* hurt.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/woman-burns-down-home-set_n_2933888.html

:)

In honor of that brilliant little serpent, I even bought a domain

http://www.flamingsnakes.com


74 posted on 06/29/2014 8:05:31 PM PDT by Salamander (He ain't heavy, he's my Boa.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; LucyT

Lucy *really* needs to work on her secrecy.

:D


75 posted on 06/29/2014 8:06:53 PM PDT by Salamander (He ain't heavy, he's my Boa.)
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To: LucyT; Salamander; All
I really like spiders and it's not because I'm a skink (lizard).
I use to feed my praying mantis & jumping spiders tiny crickets.

76 posted on 06/29/2014 8:12:53 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Jihadist/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: nickcarraway

This is ridiculous. Spiders are adorable!


77 posted on 06/29/2014 8:16:56 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Salamander
I like it..poor snake, probably a harmless Garnter snake.

78 posted on 06/29/2014 8:17:01 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Jihadist/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: VanShuyten
How to kill a cockroach - don't bother with the towels, just torch the house - period!

After all, cockroaches are pre-historic so the only possible way to rid oneself of the critters.

I tried it, it worked fantastically, though cost us $35,000 in expenses after what the insurance paid us.

79 posted on 06/29/2014 8:24:39 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: nickcarraway

This is one of the most absurd things I’ve ever heard.


80 posted on 06/29/2014 8:26:47 PM PDT by rdl6989
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